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Especially in the context of workstation class systems where your looking at $5k per CPU and your quite possibly looking at 10g connections for your horizontal

Especially in the context of workstation class systems where your looking at $5k per CPU and your quite possibly looking at 10g connections for your horizontal cable runs. At a certain point the old HP (before they where shit) Joke if you have to ask the price you cant afford it still applies.

dragontamer 6y ago
I think this fundamentally misunderstands how computer users work. Lets say I'm a programmer who needs to spin up multiple VMs / Docker / etc. etc. to properly emulate some server setup. Multiple cores and tons of RAM (more than 256GB) needed on a regular basis, with a few NVMe drives in RAID0 so that those VMs can be snapshot in blazing fast speeds. Paying $100 to $4000 for VMWare workstation, Visual Studio subscriptions, SQLServer non-express, Red Hat Virtual Machine License, Visio, and other such top-class tools would be 100% reasonable, along with the $10,000+ Threadripper pro computer with 512GB RAM or whatever. But image editing wouldn't be part of that user's workflow. Suddenly, the professional developer is asked to make a web-banner on the top of his Github document with the logo of the company on it. Guess what? Said developer probably is downloading GIMP. The hassle of going to corporate to be compensated for lol $25 on another image editor is just not worth the time.