It can sometimes seem hard to overcome real or imagined objections to a need for improved hardware. There often seems to be an assumption that developers all just want the shiniest toys and that the job of management and company finance is to save expenditure by curbing that desire.
As developers, maybe we should get more practice making sensible business cases for the times when hardware improvements really make sense.
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