As long as it doesn’t get in their way, I think the previous statement is indeed true.
Devs don’t care whether their laptop is 2 years old or not, they care that their compilation takes 5 minutes when it could be 2.
Devs don’t care whether their laptop is 2 years old or not, they care that their compilation takes 5 minutes when it could be 2.
If this is true, I would expect that investing in hardware that most effectively gets out of a dev's way to have an even higher return on investment than is suggested by time and productivity arguments. The emotional toll of dealing with the dev equivalent of paper cuts should not be under-appreciated.