What does your company offer as a work computer?

[Tribalinius]

I live and breathe with my ThinkPad. We're an IT consultation firm and are allowed to pick whatever fits our work and need the best in the T / X1 series. We also get to order as many accessories we want as long as it's justified. You need 2 docking stations and 6 screens to be the most productive because reasons? Yeah, go ahead buddy. Money is not really an issue when it's your everyday tool and companies depends on you. I often jokingly compare our computer setups as F1 steering wheels in meetings as they all have a "special" something and the layout is different for each of us. I'll give credit to my boss for that, he's not stingy on hardware. He knows that we will be more productive if we have the right equipment.

[NinJake]

We order HP products where I'm at. Specced out normally with i5 and mechanical drive but I've slowly been requesting more and more SSD's for these machines or old ones. (It's amazing how you can "bring an old PC" back to life with a SSD.

 

As for myself, I've recently completed this build for my own work PC.

 

[RejZoR]

Intel Core i5 4th generation with iGPU, 4GB RAM and 120GB SSD. It's for office use so it's good enough for what we use them.

[Jarsky]

I work as a Wintel & Hypervisor engineer for a very large ICT provider. 

I went from a Lenovo T410 to a Dell 5580 to now an HP 850 G5. Just no real need for a powerful computer at work, and something portable is good so I can move around with it and VPN from home if needed. CPU intensive tasks I can just run on servers. 

[handymanshandle]

I'm not issued a computer, I work retail and a pretty non special role despite specialist being in my title.

Our registers are some sort of HP all in one with at least 6th Gen Intel i5, then the workstations are thin clients from HP I think

[Sir Asvald]

I use a HP mini PC 705 G3. Although I'm changing it for the G4 model. 

[wANKER]

Whatever I choose to buy. 

 

So, depends how they treat me 

 

Generally speaking though, as a minimum, 6th gen i5, 8GB, SSD 

If it's a laptop, 1080p and USB C

 

(HP, Windows 10)

[Koeshi]

6 hours ago, Velcade said:

Interesting, for my doctorate we were responsible for our devices. Never even cross my mind that the University would allocate funds to supply computers to the grad students. Must be a UK thing?

Not a whole UK thing, would be decided by the individual universities and most likely by the responsible departments within the university.  I expect some US universities will also issue equipment, it will just be determined by what those in charge deem appropriate/are able to spend.

[WiiManic]

7 hours ago, Velcade said:

Interesting, for my doctorate we were responsible for our devices. Never even cross my mind that the University would allocate funds to supply computers to the grad students. Must be a UK thing? 

Most (basically all) of my department is funded by STFC or similar studentships, which contain usually in the range of £800-1000 a year for training / equipment costs, then other money for travel, living costs etc. Most people spend that £1000 on their laptop in first year, but it could just as much be put towards travel or conferences.

 

Its not necessarily UK wide, more UK-wide for people who get that studentship or similar. I know its very different in other departments, since getting money can be much harder. Some will only get their uni fees covered and not any living costs, some get nothing, and then some get basically everything. STEM is pretty lucky to get uni + living + equipment + travel and then some subjects get even more for living abroad etc if that is deemed useful.

[Real_PhillBert]

I'm a mechanical engineer;

 

CPU: Xeon E-2176M 6C/12T - Windows 10

Memory: 32GB

GPU: Quadro P4200 With Max-Q

Storage: 500GB SSD

Monitors: 3x ViewSonic VA2406m (cheap 24" 1080 display)

Keyboard: Corsair K95 Platinum <- Personally owned (they provide a cheap logitech)

Mouse: Logitech MX Master 2S <- Personally owned (they provide a cheap logitech)

[AngryBeaver]

Let's see... at my current employer I have a nice Dell laptop with an 8700 and 16gb of ram. I also have an HP Zbook with a beastly xeon and 32gb of ram (my main workhorse), then lastly I have my examiner machine that I am constantly remoting in to which is running dual xeons with 512gb of ram and about 40Tb of raid protected storage.

 

My desk at work consists of 5 displays. 3 to my 8700 and 2 connected to the Zbook. I also run 4 monitors horizontal and 1 vertical. I just use a nice KVM to switch between the two as needed.

[Yoinkerman]

I have a toughbook from 2011 I want to die every time I use it, which is most of the day every day.

 

It's still 32bit windows even.

[B16CXHatch]

Work at an insurance company. I have a Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny with a Core i3 7100T, 8GB of RAM, and 500GB HDD. It has dual 22" monitors and I supplied my own keyboard and mouse. I've got some Rosewill mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX Blue RGB switches and a Logitech G502 Proteus Core mouse. I actually use the macros on the mouse to partially automate some of my work.

[RasmusDC]

6 hours ago, B16CXHatch said:

Work at an insurance company. I have a Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny with a Core i3 7100T, 8GB of RAM, and 500GB HDD. It has dual 22" monitors and I supplied my own keyboard and mouse. I've got some Rosewill mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX Blue RGB switches and a Logitech G502 Proteus Core mouse. I actually use the macros on the mouse to partially automate some of my work.

really loved at the office with that mechanical blue switch..

 

actually really wanted to buy a mx brown at work, but restrained myself, because of open office enviroment. there is enough noise as is. 

[RasmusDC]

21 minutes ago, comander said:

I used an MX Blue keyboard for years at my prior employer and went out of my way to get OKs from my coworkers. 0 complaints in an open office. 
I also let a coworker borrow a similar keyboard for a while and I never noticed it... hell I'm still on good terms with my old bosses. 

 

Then again I DID have college roommates who sure as heck noticed late night SC2 sessions with an MX Blue keyboard. I will admit I became conscious of noise after that.

well the Logitech keyboard i have at work, even though it is a membrane keyboard, it still makes noise. i really don´t think my MX Brown is that much louder, but i do know we have people that are quite sensitive to noise, and the clicking from mechanical elements are piercing for them, but then again all our mouses are MX Master, and they make a really lout switch sound everytime you click.

[Pasi123]

I don't really work anywhere, but at school we have been making games for the last 12 weeks.

 

We use HP ProBook 470 G1 laptops:

 

i7-4702MQ 4c/8t 2.2GHz

16GB DDR3 1600MHz

AMD Radeon HD 8750M

250GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO

17.3" 1600x900 TN panel

Windows 10 Pro (build 1709)

[slippers_]

20 hours ago, Cyanara said:

X99 6-core systems for the older computers, but the newer ones are 8700K/9900K, GTX1080/2070, 1.5TB of M.2 SSDs, & 64GB RAM, with dual 1440p Dell Ultrasharps. Video production can be a fun industry to do IT for.

 

Certainly beats when my whole department at a major IT corporation had to work through a Pentium 3 1Ghz terminal server with 1GB RAM. Wasn't even that long ago...

We are trying to move our customers off of this type of thing, it is painful to see server hardware that has been live for 12-14 years still actively being used.

 

Even more painful when they don't want to upgrade because "muh expensive"... 

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

wow sooo many great pc, i am on lenovo oem i3 2120 /4gb ram / no ssd/ win7 / semi broken keyboard

[RasmusDC]

3 hours ago, slippers_ said:

We are trying to move our customers off of this type of thing, it is painful to see server hardware that has been live for 12-14 years still actively being used.

 

Even more painful when they don't want to upgrade because "muh expensive"... 

when i was studying, i supported a smaller company with IT, with 20+ employees, they were running an OLD server, Windows NT, which was not really setup as a server, since the IT guy they got to set it op.. have oversold himself, and just made it to share drives, no user setup.

 

I supported this setup for a lot of years, and they did not want to invest.. it paid well, but kept telling them, that upgrading, would save them a lot of money for me.

 

Actually ended up scrapping the whole server setup, just purchasing a DS15xx+ system with redundency (they were running tape backup) and a remote clone.

 

it was WAY faster than the old system, and actually served an okay solution for them, but a full server setup would have been better... 

 

kept a BROAD setup of Celeron, Pentiums running with both Windows XP and Vista (yeah.. sucks) running. so much patchwork.

[Princess Luna]

I am an export manager, at the office I rock a Ryzen 5 2400G based system because I convinced my boss to let me build it instead of picking another prebuild... every one else at the office uses these i5 7400 based prebuilds.

[Ross Siggers]

I work for the NHS. We just got some cutting edge Pentium 4's, wowzer  

 

But really, my PC is pretty similar to all the other generic desk machines on site, we're talking an i5-4590 and 4Gb ram. I haven't got a work supplied laptop, but ironically my personal machine is an ex-business thinkpad  

[Blze001]

Eh, we're developers and have old ProBooks.

i7-4610m (dual core i7, baybee), 16GB ram. At least they bumped us up to a 250GB SSD, but overall the thing is still painfully slow during a lot of dev tasks

[YaBoiWill]

I just have a standard dell or something for everyday tasks. It does the job

 

But, I do have a nice one in another part of the building for doing proper 3D tasks.

 

It has 32gb of DDR4-3000, I7 8700K (I think) and a p4000

It doesn't get used a whole bunch as we don't redesign lighting rigs and sets too often, but its sometimes gets used as the show managers desk as it has 2x27" displays, so they can see CCTV feeds and other stuff on it

[TVwazhere]

I'm a CAD tech, currently Rocking a custom spec'd HP Z240 workstation PC (ordered in 2017 right before coffeelake)

 

i7-7700K

(some HP) presumably B360 mobo

Nvidia P1000

M.2 NVME 512gb boot drive (Win10) with a 1TB WD blue storage drive

16gb DDR4 2666 (ECC?) ram

HP Z27S 27" 4k IPS monitor with two older HP/dell 22" 1080p TN panels on either side

Gray box PSU, I think 500w

A woefully inadequate 92mm tower style CPU cooler

 

I specifically chose the 7700k even though I cant OC because of the higher boost clocks for single threaded applications. The BIOS on this motherboard isnt aggressive with the fan curve at all so if I want to render anything I have to manual set the fan to above 40% speed in the bios, no speedfan does not work(which is loud; i think this is a 2000-3000 rpm fan)

 

They wouldn't let me build it myself so the company paid almost double what they had to for "hp warranty"

 

I (and everyone else in the office) also have an HP elitebook 840 G3 which has a dualcore w/hyperthreading i7-6500u, 16gb of ram and an NVME OS drive (256gb i think) Mine is mostly a spare or when I need to go to meetings. 

[Kisai]

On 5/12/2019 at 11:32 PM, RasmusDC said:

work at LEGO, i have a Dell Precision 5530, guess it is some kind of XPS clone.

 

4K display (touch), 32gb ram, P1000 Quadro, 8850H CPU, 256gb NVME, it is a nice laptop, have a backup older DELL 12" with an older 7 series dual core HT cpu.

 

have 2 offices, but have displays each place, 2 x 1920x1200 in my project and older 2 x 1920x1080 in my office, although i have ordered one of those super wide screen that is the same size of a dual 16:9 setup. 

The Precision series are workstation laptops. One of my offices uses Precision 55x0's as their main laptop for new non-engineeering staff. Engineering staff are supposed to have Precision 77x0's. They've cycled out all their old Dell and HP G2 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation intel laptops, the new stuff is either 6th, 7th or 8th. Cycled every three years as warranties justify replacing them. The Managers all use super-weak 13" XPS and 14" Latitude laptops that are terrible and I don't like them since they have all the battery and iGPU-releated performance problems. Now when it comes to monitors, there's not very many new monitors purchased, and I kinda wish they would have the same replacement schedule, since an old monitor paired with a new monitor looks awful.

 

Now, here's the thing that bothers me. They buy brand-new laptops, to replace laptops that are not out of warranty. Now I understand not giving new staff garbage, but at the same time, there has been returned equipment that was months old, and it's like having a car with maybe 8000 miles on it.