Why I use old hardware
I remember getting in an argument a few years ago during a budgeting meeting at a job, where the prospect of upgrading our two-year-old Macbook Pros came up.  This company was a startup that wasn&#x27;t doing particularly well with money, and I said that you don&#x27;t need a super-fast laptop to program...especially since this job was Node.js based and none of the work we were doing was processing-heavy.<p>This started somewhat of an argument with my peers who claimed they needed a top-of-the-line Macbook to do everything because you can&#x27;t program on anything slower.  Management ended up caving and buying the new laptops.<p>I stand by my point on this though; as a proof of concept, I &quot;lived&quot; on an ODroid XU4 for a month awhile ago, doing all my programming and everything on there.  I was happy to get my big laptop back when I was done with this experiment, but I never felt like weaker hardware impaired my <i>programming</i> ability.