No. If you buy a tool it should improve your productivity by an amount more than you spent on a tool. As a ex blue collar worker I know what it means to spend a few grand on a set of snap-on wrenches for your trade. You don’t do it because you think the wrenches look nice. You do it because it’s cheaper to have tools that work correctly than to mess with ones that break or don’t work properly. And because you’re running a business or working for a business where your tools matter.
Now that I’m a programmer I really need a good keyboard, good internet connection, and a good compiler (free). The bits in between don’t matter so much in terms of my trade. I can do my development from Windows, Linux, OSX, QNX, whatever really. If I were doing video editing I definitely could see an advantage to a Mac, so for narrow use cases it is an investment in the right tools.
But most of the time, people buy a gray metal computer because they want it.
