Haha, I knew that line of "maxing out dev machines" might get a response about "machines being faster than users", I'm fully in support of testing software on l

Haha, I knew that line of "maxing out dev machines" might get a response about "machines being faster than users", I'm fully in support of testing software on lower-end hardware or in VM's that are scaled to what your users might be using. That said (as you also pointed out) forcing devs to suffer because "this is what our users use" is just silly.