At work I have a Z820 dual-Xeon (each w&#x2F; 16 cores) specialist workstation packed with SSD drives and 64GB of RAM.<p>At home I have a 6 year old beaten up Thinkpad with an i7, 8GB RAM, and a small SSD.<p>Apart from when I&#x27;m compiling some very heavy workloads, I can&#x27;t honestly feel the difference much. For the smaller projects I do at home, it&#x27;s still zippy.<p>I thought about getting a faster machine at home to run Quartus at higher speeds for some FPGA personal projects. But the free web edition will only ever use 1 core anyways.  So almost pointless upgrading.<p>Tech has become mostly &#x27;good enough&#x27; for many years now, even for engineers. It&#x27;s only gaming tech and display technologies that are really making me want something newer.