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> Software developers tend to like their new toy

This depends on the industry, I suppose. Out here on the east coast in the defense industry it's a badge of honor to have a stickered-up 12 year old ThinkPad running a BSD.

I've still got (and use daily) my T40. It's even got a sticker on it. Damn thing won't die.

Not sure I understand this at all.

Compiling code faster and running it are different things.

If the goal is code that runs better on slower machines then that code needs optimising and to do that a faster machine is better at.

"Optimize" as though most end user software is optimised. It is just written without much thought for perfomance most of the time

Heh, yeah, more like "it runs well enough on my top-of-the-line machine, so that's good enough for everyone".