I still feel this point is a bit misplaced. The right way of thinking of this is in the marginal opportunity cost, which I brought up in the post you are responding to. That's precisely what "your own innate opinions of worth and value as it relates to physical goods" is getting at here. Opportunity cost. You'd rather have $200 for some unknown set of stuff than a small gain on your CPU. OK, fine. That's how you view the cost. Anyone buying a MBP for work has that marginal $200, the question is where is it best spent? Snacks, beer, eGPUs, RAM, CPU? And they all work together. Each can exist on their own or in combination. In the era of 0% loans for stuff, we're talking like $10/month here (Apple literally offers you a 0% 18m loan at time of purchase for one of these). Its likely all can exist together. In the scheme of things, a ~$3000 computer that will be productive for 3+ work*years is peanuts. The $200 margin then even smaller.
You've started to jump the shark, lack of IPC gains since Sandy Bridge is vague and not useful. We're talking about performance gains moving across the same design and architecture.
Which is all just a way of talking about case-specific marginal cost.... I don't think you actually disagree with what I said, just don't fully understand it.
Gosh, hyperbole. What fun. Plenty of people do just click fastest possible and be done with it because its just not worth their time to think that much about it. But that doesn't mean they jump to a completely different, non-mobile, form factor. If you're intending to get personal about why I'm here, well, there are several things I want to be sure of before I spend, but that doesn't mean I'm not ready to spend if even small margins do exist.
