That one mac supercomputer can finance about 4-5 high end developer beige boxes ...

gaius · on Aug 18, 2009

And you'd need those 4-5 boxes in a stack under your desk to run an equivalent environment.

thwarted · on Aug 18, 2009

I'm confident that a cheaper 1T disk 16gig of RAM Linux machine can just run just as many virtualized instances as a 1T disk 16gig RAM Apple machine. So if you had 4-5 Linux machines, that's 4 or 5 additional copies of this mythical production environment. Using your own math, this would be an ever bigger win for productivity.