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I am software engineer by profession and have a Macbook Pro (2013 version) with 2.6Ghz Quad Core i7, 16GB 1600MHz DDR3 memory and a 1TB drive

Over the years, I have pushed this machine to its limits by doing these things 1. Running Docker with multiple VMs for experimenting scaling 2. Learning Kafka+Zookeeper Producer/Consumers 3. Scraping a free news website 4. Using GNU Parallel to run various compute tasks 5. Debugging large projects in IntelliJ IDEA 6. Transcoding Media files 7. Running Google Chrome

Would like to get more data to make a measured decision of whether to upgrade my machine to a new setup. I would like to learn your pro-usages that have run your machine hot to death with your laptop config.

PS: There is always the option to offload intensive tasks to EC2 instances but I like to keep things local for most purposes