There is also the rise of the cloud, aka someone else's computer, to consider. There was a time when a power user needed a power machine to do whatever it was t

There is also the rise of the cloud, aka someone else's computer, to consider. There was a time when a power user needed a power machine to do whatever it was that they did. When you can spin up a 400 GB RAM beast for a few bucks for the hour it takes you to run your model/do your analysis/render your scene, maybe spending money for local hardware goodies isnt the best choice. I feel profoundly conflicted about the swing from mainframe to pc to cloud and now back to edge again.