With a laptop you're getting something worthwhile out of it, a physical object that can last you for years. With a gate like the developer account that's far l

With a laptop you're getting something worthwhile out of it, a physical object that can last you for years. With a gate like the developer account that's far less possible. It's also easy to buy a mac laptop from the blackmarket in Iran (since Apple can't legally export their laptops there), but you can't really do that with a developer account.