Re:Putting Apple’s iMac Pro Through the Paces
by vetinari on Sunday January 07, 2018 @05:07PM
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> the computer is a tax write-off anyway—something individuals buying for themselves often forget.
While this is true, the people who are unaware about what tax admitted expenses are, often just assume that it is "free money". It is not. You still have to earn whatever you spend on the machine, and it is up to you to consider, what is and isn't cost effective for your specific situation.
And not only that; in many jurisdictions, there are limits in what can be considered OPEX. If you go above that, your spending has to be accounted for as CAPEX and you have to depreciate the item. Depreciating a computer for several years, instead of expensing it in the current year, can quickly decrease its appeal.
Re:Putting Apple’s iMac Pro Through the Paces
by rubidium on Sunday January 07, 2018 @09:52PM
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In the us right now small businesses can depreciate capex fully on year of purchase for up to 500k. About to become 1 mill. So for many small businesses there's strong appeal.
I think it's pretty simple: People who want or need Macs and who have a workload that's highly parallelizable (sp?) will like this machine. Or people who need ultra-fast I/O. That group is basically video editors, (some) programmers who do a lot of local compilation for whatever reason, and a couple of others.
It's a pretty small-ish group but also probably a noisy, discerning one online.
For much of that group, the computer is a tax write-off anyway—something individuals buying for themselves often forget.
Many people forget that, in smaller businesses, the older machines are also quietly wiped and then sold for cash on Craigslist.