You should totally ignore the cost of the laptop and managing it. It's a really stupid thing to worry about when the productivity of your hires is 10000x more i

You should totally ignore the cost of the laptop and managing it. It's a really stupid thing to worry about when the productivity of your hires is 10000x more important. All great programmers have spent many years programming. They know how to make themselves productive. Let them buy what they need (within a budget). Even big companies could do this. They're just too stupid. There's no excuse for startups.