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Re:2018 MacBook Pro Review by toyg on Monday July 16, 2018 @05:37AM (#17539890)
For a professional, that's a few days of work. Over 5 years, after tax etc etc, it's still a blip for what is effectively one's main tool.

An IT pro must invest in three primary tools: chair, monitor, and laptop. A £5K budget to amortize over 5 years is fair game, and in the grand scheme of things (traders etc) is actually very very low.

If it's to watch movies and play games, then of course it's insanely pricey; but then you don't really need 32GB, nor a MBP in the first place.

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Re:2018 MacBook Pro Review by HumanDrivenDev on Monday July 16, 2018 @05:42PM (#17545413)
For a professional, that's a few days of work.

Nice stealth brag (:

I'm an intermediate dev in a first world country with a salary that locals would call good. That's over a months work for me.

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Re:2018 MacBook Pro Review by toyg on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @01:19PM (#17560230)
No, that’s still a few days of work... for your employer. If s/he won’t invest them on your wellbeing, that’s another problem.
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