Comment by ErroneousBosh

I don't know either. I'm a developer, a very old grumpy beardy one at that. My "expert development workstation" since I began hacking on Linux almost 30 years ago has been "whatever's the fastest thing in the e-waste skip, crammed full of as much memory as I can pilfer from the rest of the scrap", and then with a brand new disk at the best price-per-gigabyte ratio I can get this afternoon from the totally-not-drug-money-laundering discount PC parts shop in town.

I don't think I've ever spent "real money" on a PC for my own use, and I doubt I ever will.

I suspect my experience mirrors that of about 50% of the folk on HN.