I've been following The Setup for years (it's a dream of mine to eventually be interviewd) and I—if I correctly understand what your getting at—respectfully disagree. Daniel is really good about featuring a wide range of people from a number of disciplines on a bunch of different platforms.

But careful readers will notice a trend. There are a number of accomplished artists/developers/makers that are really happy with their current setup as their "dream setup." In addition, many of them are using 3-4 year old hardware (controlling for time).

The moral is that we can all probably accomplish our dreams (cliché) with the hardware we've got—and that's my biggest takeaway from The Setup.