That's a fair point but the reality is this -- if you work on large-ish or actually large codebase (think like, Open Office sized codebases, not your random run

That's a fair point but the reality is this -- if you work on large-ish or actually large codebase (think like, Open Office sized codebases, not your random run of the mill npm package) today and you want to maintain it, publish packages, do work, integrate a CI builder, etc -- it doesn't really matter. You need RAM, cores, and importantly, a fast drive. Basically the only things that can fit this bill at sub-$1000 USD, are: - Virtualized Linux on an M1 Mac. (Limited RAM since the M1 caps at 16GB, but viable.) - Jetson Xavier AGX. (Good for ML and overall strong SoC, but the proprietary bits get in the way e.g. if you want a new kernel version.) - This thing. (OK cores, but 64GB RAM and M.2) Hilariously, the newest entry in this list is actually the M1 Mac (both the AGX and Honeycomb date to 2019/2020.) Unless you're going to start subsidizing boards, somehow. You're not going to see Neoverse in a developer workstation at a similar price point until the market either flourishes substantially (months, years from now) and the volume allows lower pricing, or a sugar daddy company somewhere decides to just set money on fire and directly subsidize sales directly to you. Part of this is the same problem where you have to buy both the CPU and the motherboard together, but at the end of the day it doesn't matter. For comparison, an Ampere Altra with the entry-level 32-core will cost you about $6,500 USD. https://store.avantek.co.uk/ampere-altra-64bit-arm-workstation.html https://store.avantek.co.uk/ampere-altra-64bit-arm-workstati...