Invest in a bottom tier machine. Apart from the healthy separation, it will teach you to value both computation and financial resources. It's totally possible

Invest in a bottom tier machine. Apart from the healthy separation, it will teach you to value both computation and financial resources. It's totally possible to code Erlang on a low-end netbook. The cheap laptop I wrote early self-employed code on was under 20% the price of a cheap Mac and so badly made it was flexible. The work I produced on it paid for the eventual upgrade.