I don't care about the down-votes. They don't change reality. This is to be expected on HN. A good number of people here have never run a real business yet t

I don't care about the down-votes. They don't change reality. This is to be expected on HN. A good number of people here have never run a real business yet think they understand how things work. Mark Twain: "A man holding a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way" The corollary to that is "A man who has held a cat by the tail can spot one who hasn't a mile away". I remember the era of the dot-com boom. Everyone had to have masseuses, incredible desks, thousand dollar chairs, insane office architecture, an on-site chef and all manner of other inconsequential crap. And, eventually, reality hit and businesses learned the hard way that spending extravagantly doesn't make your business successful. I don't have a problem with Macs. We own a bunch of them. Expensive ones. Fully loaded. And for the right reasons. Suggesting that a restaurant chain, health club, bakery chain or other average businesses are justified spending 10x on computers that deliver zero value when compared to a $250 computer can only happen in the context of having no idea how an average business with normal margins runs. I'll go further than that. As an employee, throwing a fit if you don't get your toy is not only juvenile but a sure sign that someone isn't connected to reality and does not care about the success of the enterprise. Businesses with normal margins need to be brutal about managing those margins. I'd rather pay people $1,000 more a year than throw it into a computer that is not going to add any real measurable value to the business. It's all about that damn cat.