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That's the worst suggestion possible. It is the reason why why developers do not even notice that their program/application/page uses one or two orders of magnitude more resources than it needs and thus will bring many users' machine to its knees and run way slower than it should.

Since I am not going to follow the upcoming conversation, I sum it up in advance:

* [Insert here the usual "yes, but nowadays everyone has got X Go RAM, and a CPU scoring YYY WhateverMark." ]

* That's not true by any means, in real life most non-geek people do not have these or want to buy them (even if "every computer sold nowadays comes with it" was true, which it isn't either) just to do everything that they could already do 10 years ago, but in fuchsia now; and even people with an up-to-date machine may wish to run several different programs or several instances of the same application in these days without eating all their RAM, maxing their CPU or draining their battery.

Developers and designers need high end machines. Period.

Maybe pay developers more to the point where PC is cheaper.

> Developers and designers need high end machines

This is simply not true. Explain to me why you need an i7 as a dev but the consumers using your product don't need an i7 to run the exact same thing.

> > Developers and designers need high end machines

> Explain to me why you need an i7 as a dev but the consumers using your product don't need an i7 to run the exact same thing.

Because dev tools take resources that the product doesn't take on the end user machine while running in delivered form.

Whether that's compile/build tools, whether that's running server and client simultaneously on a dev machine, whether that's running code in debug form under debugger rather than "naked" in delivered form, or whether that's just the power to run the code itself alongside an IDE, there's all kinds of reasons why a dev machine needs more than is required for an end user of the code being developed.

Similar, overlapping, but not exactly identical concerns apply to "designers" as opposed to "developers".

Sorry, but I just don't buy it. You don't need a super powerful machine for web development. Maybe game development, but not web development.

Not everyone is tall, likely you are short.

Web developers need to batch resize images to make them smaller.

Most developers are expensive and should not be paid to wait. But there are exceptions, some developers are not expensive.

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