I'll never understand the pricing. $1000 extra to get 64gb of memory? Incredible. What circumstance leads a purchaser to look at that and say, "ok sounds great?"
My boss. I mean, we don't have unlimited cash to throw away, but let's say I'm going to keep a new Mac for 4 years (which is a lot less time than I'll probably actually have it, but we'll round down). I work about 2,000 hours a year, or about 8,000 hours over the time I'll own it. That $1,000 amortizes out to be about $0.13 per hour, which is a rounding error compared to salary, benefits, air conditioning at the office (back in the old days when that use to be a thing), etc. If that makes me 0.2% more efficient -- say by making compiles or "docker build" commands run faster -- then the company made a profit off of it.
