No its not at you. You seem to be the type i used to want to work with.
My game after rollouts was rnd packet switching with enterprise destrubuted bata bases with golbal live servers where the load was with sat backup when the internet went tits up. The current live DB moving with the time zone from primary to secondary etc. The engineering stuff was ours short and sweet. Raid 0 ram to max proc has hard as you could get at the time and IT had sod all to do with the purchase or the spec. In fact most of the time it was unix boxes and they didn' t have root anyway. We had our own subnet and they got there arses kicked if there was any !!!!e on that subnet.
Macs with that broadcast crap were just pushed off and relegated to the extreme bollocks subnet. With a switch so the rest of us didn't have to deal with that crap.
The even thought that a machine isn' t running at .98 .99 from the day its live is a waste of resource to me.