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Originally Posted by JackDidley

I am sort of a cheapskate when it comes to computers. No Mac for me. I am actually using 2 identical Latitude E6510s from 2011. 8 gigs of RAM and 250 gig SSDs. I bought them used. They are solid and have taken abuse.

I work in IT, and spend a fair amount of time on my computer when I'm not working, so I could not work on an underpowered machine without going crazy. I tend to buy a decently high end machine (without going top-o-the-line) and then hang on to that machine for many years (8-12, probably).

I don't, and most folks don't need a highly specialized, highly powered machine to run a highly compute intensive business like Glenn. It would surely be overkill for 99.999% of the population. Hell, most folks probably don't need the machine that I have and it's probably 5-6 years old. But then my machine would also be barely adequate or inadequate to play most modern games due to the lack of high end graphics.