Nah. I mean, part of it is that I don't work at a big company that requires I transpile 100k LOC every time I want to see my work on screen any more while atte

Nah. I mean, part of it is that I don't work at a big company that requires I transpile 100k LOC every time I want to see my work on screen any more while attending to 100 slack channels at the same time, but I'm typically running Goland, VSCode, Safari (what I use personally), and Firefox (better for testing my web code) at the same time and it's snappy. Maybe 2-second compile typescript or go compile times, no noticeable slowdowns switching apps etc. My laptop: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) 2.3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 From what I understand, USB-C Macbooks that came after this magsafe generation had to CPU throttle earlier to deal with thermal issues, so despite better specs they couldn't get pushed without overheating. As well as heat/throttle issues if you try to charge it from the wrong USB-C port.