I remember getting in an argument a few years ago during a budgeting meeting at a job, where the prospect of upgrading our two-year-old Macbook Pros came up. This company was a startup that wasn't doing particularly well with money, and I said that you don't need a super-fast laptop to program...especially since this job was Node.js based and none of the work we were doing was processing-heavy.
This started somewhat of an argument with my peers who claimed they needed a top-of-the-line Macbook to do everything because you can't program on anything slower. Management ended up caving and buying the new laptops.
I stand by my point on this though; as a proof of concept, I "lived" on an ODroid XU4 for a month awhile ago, doing all my programming and everything on there. I was happy to get my big laptop back when I was done with this experiment, but I never felt like weaker hardware impaired my programming ability.
This started somewhat of an argument with my peers who claimed they needed a top-of-the-line Macbook to do everything because you can't program on anything slower. Management ended up caving and buying the new laptops.
I stand by my point on this though; as a proof of concept, I "lived" on an ODroid XU4 for a month awhile ago, doing all my programming and everything on there. I was happy to get my big laptop back when I was done with this experiment, but I never felt like weaker hardware impaired my programming ability.