Here's my reason for never wanting to use old hardware. Admittedly, I don't need the latest and greatest, but I want something that is reasonable. Several yea

Here's my reason for never wanting to use old hardware. Admittedly, I don't need the latest and greatest, but I want something that is reasonable. Several years ago I was optimizing a DB query that was a real hog in the development environment. Two days later, and after trying everything I can do, I essentially gave up and checked in the meager optimizations I squeezed out of it. The query gets moved to QA, and runs completely fine. Why? Because the company had a mindset that developers should program on slower hardware to "make it more efficient" and none of them thought through that the run time optimizers might actually perform differently when given enough memory and processor power to run effectively. Older hardware within certain performance metrics are fine, but it's often a waste of everyone's time to do it to try and save a dollar here or there.