I suspect you seriously overestimate the amount of developers on bleeding edge hardware. My desktop is a first gen i7. My Laptop a 4th gen. My work machine a 5

I suspect you seriously overestimate the amount of developers on bleeding edge hardware. My desktop is a first gen i7. My Laptop a 4th gen. My work machine a 5 year old Xeon. And you know what? They all work great and I see no reason to upgrade. I guess you will be shocked to hear I’m doing fine with 8GBs of ram too :)