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People routinely buy cars that cost double that. This is a machine that people that typically earn six figure salaries use to do their work on. Exactly the target demographic that would buy/lease expensive cars as well. And then those get used mainly to commute to work.

I don't really need one. But I do have a 4.5K mac book pro for work. Yes it's a bit overpowered. But it's the main vehicle with which I earn a living and it routinely saves me time by blazing through builds and generally doing things quickly for me. I have slightly more GPU on that thing than I need. But it's nice to have the option to experiment with some of the open weight AI models.

by embedding-shape1 hours ago|

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> People routinely buy cars that cost double that.

Maybe it's the "routinely" or the "people" part, but "people" generally don't ever buy a 80K car, it's a small fraction of the population who can afford such luxury cars. And I'm sure the ones who buy cars for 80K, unless they're car enthusiasts or just plain billionaires, don't do so "routinely" either.

by coffeebeqn4 hours ago|

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And you would buy it through your company so it won’t be quite as much net. Surely no one is buying these just for fun

by embedding-shape1 hours ago|

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> Surely no one is buying these just for fun

-_-

Some of us worked hard in life and have spare money, sue me!

by mandeepj10 hours ago|

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the landing page showed "$3,299.00" and I had my candy store moment for a few secs.

by jgalt2129 hours ago|

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5 years ago I could not afford top shelf coders. Now I cannot afford top shelf machines.