Programmers need ridiculously powerful pcs?
I'm a programmer and pretty sure I could do my job just fine on a $200 laptop.
Do programmers needs GPU? Nope
Do they need ram? Yeah but only a little
HDD? Ofc they benefit from a fast one, but not essential, souce can easily be held extenernally
CPU? Always nice, but even 2ghz single core can do all that is needed.
PLUS: He did say he wanted it to play SC2, not programming.
Don't spend $2k on a computer
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