What does your company offer as a work computer?

[unsungheroist]

 we use Wyse clients on a very large scale VDI system.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/wyse-endpoints-and-software/sf/thin-clients

[DrkLrdChckls]

I work in the Marketing Department of a franchise car dealership. I was provided with a Dell Optiplex 9020 Mid-Tower with an i5-4570, 4 GB RAM, and a mechanical HDD. They also provided a 17" 4:3 Dell monitor and I added a 23" 1080p Dell monitor of my own. I also added my own mechanical keyboard and wireless trackball. I have started using Adobe products more lately, so I have started bringing my own Lenovo IdeaPad 330s with an i5-8250u and 8 GB RAM.

[jones177]

I was my company, being a freelance 3D artist.

To stop me from going crazy on hardware I imposed a $5000 yearly budget on myself. 

 

The last computers I built with that budget was in 2018 and were an i7 8700k and an i7 8086k with GTX 1080 tis plus 1tb SATA SSDs. I also updated monitors that year with one 32" 4k and one 32" 144hz 1440p monitor. Ram and cases were used from other years.

 

My budget has been successful for over 20 years so I decided to keep it after I retired. This is so that if I have to go back to work I would have the hardware to do it. Software will be my biggest expense since I used Autodesk products.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[B16CXHatch]

19 hours ago, RasmusDC said:

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. 

Well, there's only 4 people in my area and it ain't super quiet. Shipping and Receiving. Mail machines. Other bull crap. No one notices my keyboard's noise. My supervisor has a Rosewill with MX Browns too.... it's also mine. I let him use it when I got the one with Blues.

[Koeshi]

15 hours ago, Kisai said:

The Managers all use super-weak 13" XPS and 14" Latitude laptops that are terrible

Terrible for what?  We are pretty much a Dell only site (using a 14" Latitiude right now) and it does just fine for e-mail, browsing, video calls, etc.  Sure I wouldn't want to do high-end design on it, but that is what the precision series is for.

[kaiju_wars]

My job has iirc a Core i7 4770, 16GB of ram, 256GB SSD, and integrated graphics for both dispatching stations, along with five monitors

[Teddy07]

30 minutes ago, kaiju_wars said:

My job has iirc a Core i7 4770, 16GB of ram, 256GB SSD, and integrated graphics for both dispatching stations, along with five monitors

wow. I am really surprised that an integrated GPU can power 5 screens at once

[Drak3]

4 minutes ago, Teddy07 said:

wow. I am really surprised that an integrated GPU can power 5 screens at once

Not really surprising. Just running 5 screens isn't demanding on the GPU itself.

[kaiju_wars]

5 minutes ago, Teddy07 said:

wow. I am really surprised that an integrated GPU can power 5 screens at once

We actually technically use three PCs, one is just for the 911 phone and one is just for switching radio stations.  

I just don't know the specs of those ones.

[Trippik]

I work in the IT dept for a recruitment company in the UK. We tend to issue Dell Latitude and optiplex machines, ranging from Sandybridge era to Haswell era machines.

Have been pushing to take some new hardware on-board, but in fairness with recent SSD and RAM upgrades the machines are plenty capable of the basic web browsing, web processing and excel work most workers demand.

[Dedayog]

Controller for a real estate developer.  Heavy Excel usage is about it for me, but I have this at work:

 

i7 7700

16GB RAM

1050Ti 

256SSD

1TB HDD

2x 24" ViewSonics

 

Does the job.

[AmpedUpDad]

I am a teacher with a charter school. This is what they gave me:

 

i5-4570s with 16gb of ddr2 ram and a 1050 GTX 1050 desktop.

 

No laptop.

 

An ipad with no charger.

 

 

My old school districts gave me laptops. >.>

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Currently taking a sabbatical year to think about what I want to do with the rest of my carreer. 

 

At my last job I was an office clerk, working mostly from home.  For some reason my employer didn't want to buy desktops, so we all used low-spec Dell Vostro 15 laptops (1.7GHz dual core with HT, 4GB RAM, Win10 on a 1TB HDD).

That thing was so slow that I simply left it at the office and used my own PC at home. 

[Kitsan]

I've got a HP ZBook 15 G5 with an i7 8750H, it's pretty beasty for what I use it for

[Kisai]

11 hours ago, Koeshi said:

Terrible for what?  We are pretty much a Dell only site (using a 14" Latitiude right now) and it does just fine for e-mail, browsing, video calls, etc.  Sure I wouldn't want to do high-end design on it, but that is what the precision series is for.

The 14" Latitude batteries only last their users about 10 months. Both the 7470 and 7480's. When a replacement battery is ordered we tend to get the bigger model. All replaced batteries tend to be swollen pretty bad by the time they're replaced.

 

And that is just a single issue. Performance wise, they are not powerful enough to run office 16 the way many users at the office use it.

[Eyebrows]

 hi I'm an independent business man and I do lots of plumbing and userly end up on Samsung s7 as it's water resident but thay dont like moisture Geting in the charging port lol no some interesting posts on here good topic to start

[Andreas Lilja]

i7 3770 @ 3.09 GHz

8 GB ram

 

Good enough for what I do with it, namely Reddit, forums, and YouTube.

[Phentos]

I work as a desktop support tech atm. My work computer is a bog standard Optiplex with an i5 6500, 8GB RAM, and a 256GB SSD.

 

One of the servers I help work on occasionally has an old Xeon from 2008 that my IT department is trying to find the money to replace. 

[Uttamattamakin]

It varies from classroom to classroom.  But the newest computer is maybe a 7th gen Core i5 from HP.  The oldest is maybe 5th gen.  Never more than 500 GB of storage.  The main point of the computers is to access MS Sharepoint and things like that.   Computer laboratories generally have nicer hardware. 

 

What all the colleges have though is the fastest possible internet in this area.  1 gig or 10 gig depending on the campus.  

[Gegger]

My mom's work (daycare thing) gives her a IBM Thinkpad (yes, IBM) for making stuff on an application that is only on the Thinkpad. Otherwise she just uses a 2012 Macbook Air.

 

My school gives us Acer R11 Chromebooks.

[Koeshi]

9 hours ago, Kisai said:

The 14" Latitude batteries only last their users about 10 months.

Sounds like you are just having shitty luck, I have had to replace a few batteries but for the most part machines are running fine past the end of their warranty.

 

9 hours ago, Kisai said:

Performance wise, they are not powerful enough to run office 16 the way many users at the office use it.

Sounds like you have a fringe use case there then, not really sure what Office use could provide that these machines would have issue with other than multi-gig Excel files.

[Atlas780]

I work in a small Webshop Company in the tech department. Unfortunaly we dont get notebooks, we will just buy the newest HP ProDesk with an i7 for Java-Devs and normally i5 for the rest with RAM being between 8 - 32 GB and some random gpu, if even external. Although, out graphics department have Macs, the newest beeing from 2014 tho

[Ryanwake]

A first gen quad-core 2.4ghz with 8 gb Ram at 2333, AMD firepro 2270 Graphics adapter, it plays Minecraft okay not great though, and a 240gb SSD along with 1 the hard drive.

 

Well let's just say it's not going to be doing much heavy lifting but it can handle Chrome pretty well, so I can copy everyone's homework on Google docs easy enough.

 

And I can have open like 30 tabs, so I don't have to waste time closing them all so I can reference like 4 tabs have a Linus Tech tips rerun playing in the background no problem.

 

I mean all I have to do is download their work and rewrite it in my own words and make sure I get all of their sources.

 

It's not that demanding, all I need to do is an advanced Google search.

 

 

[chiller15]

When I started this job in 2015, I inherited my predecessor's Dell XPS desktop, which was bought as a pair in 2013 for him and my boss. They had a Core i7 3rd gen, 8GB RAM, 60GB SSD, 1TB HDD, Nvidia 210, 24" display and a Logitech MK310 wireless keyboard/mouse combo.

 

We were recently given permission to replace our workstations. For cost saving, we built our own machines, which we configured with; AMD 2700X, 16GB RAM, 250GB NVMe M.2, 1TB HDD, Nvidia 710, 3x 24" monitors.

[CCPSSteve]

Look at this beautiful piece of hardware that my job provides us technicians (IT for large school system). 

 HP ProBook x360 11 G1 EE Notebook PC

Processor: Intel® Celeron® N3350 with Intel® HD Graphics 500 (1.1 GHz base frequency, up to 2.4 GHz burst frequency, 2 MB cache, 2 cores)

Memory: 4 GB DDR3L-1600 SDRAM

Storage: 64 GB eMMC SSD (Yup)

Display: 11.6" diagonal HD SVA eDP LED slim touch screen (1366 x 768)