That really does depend on your code base. If you have some large 1 million line C++ codebase that your computer fails to index half the time and compiles that

That really does depend on your code base. If you have some large 1 million line C++ codebase that your computer fails to index half the time and compiles that take 20 minutes minimum; you need the 27" resolution to view all the panes of a running program at the same time; a better machine and larger screens are very useful.