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In professional environments the price of a computer is so minimal it doesn’t really matter. If someone is being paid even $100K a year then the extra $4,000 for a computer they’ll have for probably 4 years is a rounding error.



1% is a pretty bad rounding error, you might want to look into some better accounting software.


Have that attitude about your purchases for 10 years, wasting at least $4000 a year, and you've wasted $40000. That's significant even if you do make $100k.


Who buys a new computer every year? That’s just silly and a waste of money.


You don't buy a new computer every year but if you carry that attitude around with you then you're probably wasting comparable money elsewhere.


in 10 years that's a $1m. Even if you bought a mac pro every year that's not particularly significant. Of course, it is a lot of money by itself and if you are smart about it you can save a lot, but the value is there for other people in not building a custom PC with cooling.


You did get something in return for that 40k though.




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