[platinumrad]

The surprise and mild indignation that you seem to be expressing makes no sense to me. Unless you're doing heavy computational work on your personal workstation, any reasonably modern laptop (past 5-7 years or so) is going to be powerful enough.

I use a 6 year old Thinkpad and a 4 year old Macbook. If I need to compile something big, I ssh into a build server.

The mid-2015 and earlier Macbooks are better anyways.