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My 3970x workstation, all in, cost about £3200. I've also got a 14" Macbook Pro (personal machine) that was a _little_ cheaper - it was £2700. > An expense th
by maccard 3y ago
My 3970x workstation, all in, cost about £3200.
I've also got a 14" Macbook Pro (personal machine) that was a _little_ cheaper - it was £2700.
> An expense that's very unaffordable for most companies
I think it's unaffordable for some companies, but not most. If your company is paying you $60k, they can afford $3500 once every 5 years on hardware.
> I don't think it's as accessible to average C++ or Rust developers as you expect.
I never said they were accessible, just that they are widespread (as is clear from the people in this thread who have the same hardware as I do).
FWIW, I was involved in choosing the hardware for our team. We initially went with Threadrippers for engineers, but we found that in practice, a 5950x (we now use 7950x's) is _slightly_ slower for full rebuilds but _much_ faster for incremental builds which we do most of.