[peterwwillis]

What on earth would cause you to buy a $3,000 laptop? Are you a mechanical engineer?

[irrational]

Well, if he works at a place like I do - my company pays for all of my hardware and software so I never take cost into consideration. My boss wouldn't approve it if I got too outrageous though ($3000 would not be considered outrageous).

[nikanj]

All factors considered, that's like the cost of one week's work. And you'll probably use it for 2-3 years, 5 days a week, so around $20 per work day.

[EA]

By that math, many companies would save hundreds of millions of dollars a year if they could save $14 per employee per day in laptop costs.

[irrational]

Heh, I work for a Fortune 150 company and almost everyone has a macbook pro (at least judging by what I see in meetings and walking around campus). I can't even imagine how much would be saved if everyone used cheap Wintel machines.

[devrandomguy]

Docker. I need/want 64gb in my next laptop, so that I can run deployment simulations.

[peterwwillis]

I figured there was a use case for it. The price for a laptop goes up exponentially when one of its resources reaches an upper limit. But keep in mind that for that price you could build three desktops with the same RAM and run CI/CD on a redundant distributed cluster (which become necessary for long running simulations, unless you want to keep your laptop at the office all weekend). It's also a more realistic simulation due to system resource and interconnect bottlenecks.