[gouranga]

Hey, I have a 2 core ThinkPad t61, with 4gb of ram and a 14" WXGA screen and I bet my equipment is as professional as yours...

However, 99% of that equipment is a black box designed for the lowest grade user which is the very apt point of the article.

You are not a professional - you are a salt mine worker as am I.

[mkmkmmmmm]

This kind of reasoning makes the same presupposition as the article's author. But it is ironic that he mentions musicians--a professional musician's tools, like a programmer's are basically high quality versions of the amateur's.

The conjecture about keyboards being suboptimal is verifibly true, but that does not automatically extend to the machine as well. I also suspect coding experiences will be pretty subjective.

[gouranga]

I think the point is the wrong way around.

1. The amateurs tools are a low quality, oversimplified version of the professional's. The same goes if you compare a Korg Trinity to a cheap Casio keyboard (I've owned the earlier of the two for 16 years and play for 2 hours a day at random intervals if that's any help supporting the difference in quality).

2. The machine is definitely suboptimal. I suggest that you read the remainder of the author's blog about sane computing.