A few years ago I worked for a startup that was recently acquired. We were absolutely minting money, but all the devs got these little Dell ultrabooks with dual

A few years ago I worked for a startup that was recently acquired. We were absolutely minting money, but all the devs got these little Dell ultrabooks with dual-core 15W i7 CPUs. It took around 20 minutes to build the frontend of our web app. People generally tolerated it, but I rocked the boat and rallied coworkers until we all got 6-core 45W i7 laptops. I was lobbying for my sanity, but obviously reducing build times by 10x adds up really quickly and the “managing out” from higher ups that I received subsequently was kind of insane considering the man-hour savings.