| Nothing about your post adds up. That's great, but I'm literally sitting at my desk doing it just now, so I can assure you it's not just made up! 2015 MB i7 to i9 MB doesn't increase anything times 4. i5 2015 13" MBP to i9 2018 15" MBP. 3x the cores, higher IPC, higher frequency, faster memory, faster SSD. It adds up, and for this class of process a 4x improvement is totally reasonable. How long have you been working on that task and waited an hour? The wasted labour cost might have bought you a dedicated compiling rack 2 weeks in. I don't know how the hell you work, but I don't just kick off a process and let it run while I sit still at my desk waiting for it to complete :) It just involves working to a slightly different rhythm, and the ability to iterate a bit faster makes that nicer for me, at minimal cost. Anyway… wasn't the point that "developers don't need faster machines?" I think buying a "dedicated compiling rack" would count! How long could you have rented cloud ressources to bring that task down to close to instant for the cost of a i9 MB? No idea, but in the long term, more than it costs to buy a new development machine. Plus this way I don't have to fanny around with copying assets back and forward, remoting in to visualise things, setting up a server or whatever. And the new laptop makes everything a little bit faster and more enjoyable to use. The price of the machine is pretty marginal for a tool I use in excess of 40 hours a week. Beware if you fully utilise a laptop like you describe shouldn't it become useless for everything else while doing that? Nah, it's fine generally. Everything's just a bit slower until it's done. |