> I guess you might save a bit of money using extremely old hardware and keeping it for a while. If you get the best, and keep it for a while then even though

> I guess you might save a bit of money using extremely old hardware and keeping it for a while. If you get the best, and keep it for a while then even though it won't be bleeding edge anymore it'll still be in the middle of mediocre. When it comes to computers, mediocre is actually pretty usable. A $600 computer can do pretty much everything, including handling normal scale non-enterprise software development. I didn't really realize it until I went back to school for science, but many projects are bound by the capacity of your mind and not the speed of your CPU. If I do need computing power, I use a desktop.