At a previous gig in the financial world, we had 2013 vintage MB Airs with maxed specs cranking out Scala for a card processing platform. This was right as the

At a previous gig in the financial world, we had 2013 vintage MB Airs with maxed specs cranking out Scala for a card processing platform. This was right as the term microservice was becoming better known. We were building a very de-coupled, stateless design, passing messages among services. The MB Air was fine. We did a lot in the cloud as far as testing. Write code -> push -> get test results These days so much of the work is “fill out yml files”. I see little value in having this 2017 MacBook Pro 15 with maxed specs. Having anything more than Firefox and my editor on the laptop seems useless. Others workflows may vary. But for devops, security, and a great many common roles, anything above a mid-spec MB Pro 13 feels like overkill