Why should it be a common practice for individual developers when it's completely unnecessary with the right (cheap!) support contract? What you're suggesting

Why should it be a common practice for individual developers when it's completely unnecessary with the right (cheap!) support contract? What you're suggesting seems insane to me, like setting money on fire to stay warm instead of simply buying firewood. Is it about 'flexing on plebs' or something? Eating cake when you're out of bread? But let's pretend good support contracts don't exist because if it's not Apple it must not be real... If I'm going to pay the full price for duplicate hardware, I may as well wait until the day it breaks then walk into an Apple store and buy whatever they have in stock at the moment. I'll be walking down to the Apple store to get the broken one fixed anyway, won't I? And on the off chance that the computer never breaks I've just saved myself $2k that I can use to buy a bunch of cocaine and throw a party to celebrate reliable consumer hardware. That sounds like a lot more fun than owning twinned computers, no? You're invited.