There are good money spent, there are bad money spent... I don't know. In college... 80's dollars... I spent >$2000 buying an Apple II+ from the 2 Steves. Bragging rights, of course. Turning in papers with a dot-matrix print out (instead of hand-scribbled answers on green engineering papers). Impressive. But no extra scores. Darn. Looking back makes you wonder if that's all worth it. Now, zooming forward 30 years... in today's dollar... I spent >$100 for a small SSD drive. No perceivable advantage. That's bad money spent. Not even bragging rights this time. Just playing. 50" plasma TV... >$10,000. 2002. Now you can have one for just a bit over $1000. The "dream machine" that Professor showed. >$10,000. Maybe 2 years from now all the functions/performance it can achieve will be packaged down into one chip. And takes only a 100W power supply to drive. I have stayed away from the bleeding edge for decades.
I agree Bo but I do some intense number crunching and monitor over 750 charts at a time so I need processing power, speed and stability. The average trader absolutely doesn't need what I use.