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Have you been to Amazon? I don't think I saw anyone with a laptop that was newer than 4 years old. Being Frugal seems to work for them and they are the top cloud company. I would say most developers don't need new hardware unless they are building games or developing CPU intensive application. Most laptops today have more resources than your microservice will have in the cloud.
So now your test suite takes 15 minutes to run instead of 15 seconds. Sure, that doesn’t matter at all.
Test what? you don't work in consulting, right?
The only way some consultancy firms have to earn the contract each year is:
- Give crappy hardware to devs, so they can bill more hours.
- Skip testing because if the customer wants to fix those bugs with anoter company, they will ask for an audit fee beforehand.