it probably wont

Has anyone noticed their employer actually cutting back on employee hardware purchases? Because if new laptops are still being handed over to developers on a 2–4 year cycle, then probably not.

Game developers might have to do something though if high-end GPUs are going to end up being $5000.

Sore, every single app will be a separate instance of Chrome.

So much software optimization, like rolling out new codecs that aren't accelerated on old but usable hardware.