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Maybe developer workstations should be less powerful than production machines ;)

In every movie production edit bay will be a $100 Walmart flatscreen. Because making a video production look good in 4k ProRes is fairly easy. But the majority of your audience is going to watch it on that cheap screen or something similar.

I Concur.

Especially UI developers should not have retina displays or 3x 43" 4K displays when developing web page layouts

They can have all of that for their editor and photoshop and whatever. However their actual preview monitor should be smallest cheapest monitor they can find.

Back when I was writing some quite heavy 3D software we would always test each release on a machine that was slightly below our advertised minimum spec to make sure it was at least usable there.

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