Suppose you have just been assigned to a committee that has been tasked with purchasing a new enterprise file server that will support customer account activity as well as many administrative functions, such as producing a weekly payroll. (Yes, a committee frequently makes these decisions!) One of your committee members has just learned that a particular system has blown out the competition in the SPEC CPU2017 benchmarks. He is now insisting that the committee buy one of these systems. What would be your reaction to this?

Suppose you have just been assigned to a committee that has been tasked with purchasing a new enterprise file server that will support customer account activity as well as many administrative functions, such as producing a weekly payroll. (Yes, a committee frequently makes these decisions!) One of your committee members has just learned that a particular system has blown out the competition in the SPEC CPU2017 benchmarks. He is now insisting that the committee buy one of these systems. What would be your reaction to this?