Mark Jerde wrote:

The days of
spending $2300 on a computer are over unless you're a gamer.

Software development machines can be expensive too. Multiple monitors,
dual CPUs & max memory for running virtual machines, RAID for speed &
fault tolerance, ...

Well, yeah, that too. It takes me 50 minutes to do a complete build of
Rosegarden. One of the guys just bought a new toy that can do it in 2.3
minutes. Ouch.

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