I’ve seen a screenshot of someone in consultancy roles, an obvious professional by dictionary definition, trash talking hard and mean on some software developers for demanding computers that can build software, that however has no tangible merit in their eyes, like PowerPoint or Excel performances. There might be something interesting in divisions across different types of “Pro”.

It seems like a reasonable definition to me as long as it's clear that "the computer" means that specific computer.

e.g. In this definition, if you use a PC at your office and a laptop at home for non-work stuff, your work PC is being used by a "professional" and your home laptop isn't.

I’d extend it to mean someone for whom the non-pro model is less sufficient (for example, they are using dev tools or video editing as opposed to Excel, Word and email).

That would exclude many programming positions, though, since really the old Air is perfectly fine for most SWE positions. Not optimal, but you can run iterm2, you can run a web browser, and you can run vim.

I don’t think it’s necessarily good that people say Word or Excel is non-Pro tasks fit for cheap and “lite” computers.

It’s a generalization, of course there are exceptions

> someone for whom the non-pro model is less sufficient

Given how powered up the Air has become, this is a thin envelope.