Sure, if you compare it to a thinkpad for 1k. M1 Macbook pros cost how much when they were released? 2.5k? 3k? Of you're going to get reduced compilation times. But what exactly is it "paying of"? How is the calculation from time to money done?

"I can store so much stuff in my RAM, it'll pay back in 6 months". Such a random metric.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

A well specced Thinkpad is more like 2-3k. Calculation from time to money is done assuming a 40 hour work week and the average salary of a software engineer in that team. The comparison was to an Intel core i9 MBP IIRC. And the comparison wasn't two laptops, it was replacing the year or 2 old ones for the new model, not accounting for resale value on the old ones even.