What does your company offer as a work computer?

[Tristerin]

Dell Precision Laptop w/ a Xeon E-2276M processor and 32gb of ram.  

[vanished]

I've seen a few setups, some personally, some through second-hand info.

• One place had a bit of a variety with the lower tier being a sandy bridge i3, 4 GB of RAM, and a HDD.  When new it was fine but over time, as you'd expect, it became slow and in some cases almost unusable, depending who you asked.  They were planning a much needed company-wide upgrade to SSDs last I heard.
• One place had serious issues with budget management and bureaucracy, leading many people to work on underpowered machines with the only option being to step up to a massively overpowered engineering class workstation, which may or may not happen depending on a variety of factors.  Not sure of the exact hardware on the base models but it was good enough for some tasks though not others, hence the unfortunate gap in available specs.  They also offered laptops but they were unusably slow and old (turion CPU, etc.)
• One place just let you use your own machine, whatever it was.  Their issue was more to do with workflow than hardware and would struggle on anything given the right storm of factors.
• One place offers just laptops, and relatively decent ones at that (8 GB RAM, 5300U, SSD).  Their issue is a mindbendingly slow internal network.  Just opening "This PC" to get a list of drives can easily take upwards of 30 seconds.

As you can see every place has things it's figured out, but also some problems, sometimes serious ones.

[tarfeef101]

• Random private engineering firm: I was basically in IT, and I got dominion over all the unused and broken laptops, so I just had a selection of 2-8 year old laptops
• Large Bank - Business Analyst: I got a NUC-style PC with a 2 core, 2 thread CPU about a year old. 8GB RAM. Honestly fine for the tasks I had to do
• Large Bank - Developer: I got a thinkpad that was a couple years old, middling specs. I did most of my work on remote servers, so didn't really matter. just needed chrome and a terminal
• Software startup: $3K+ macbook pro (2 or so years old). All I needed was a chromebook with a terminal and 4GB+ RAM, but startups gotta startup
• Large Microprocessor company: 3 or 4 year old laptop, 8gb RAM, 6th gen u-series CPU. Just needed to write code, do emails/docs and such, etc. Real testing and stuff done on other systems, so sufficient again. Although I REALLY could use more RAM. Too many API docs in chrome for 8GB RAM. Plus all the background stuff large companies force onto your systems.

[Tristerin]

17 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

up to a massively overpowered engineering class workstation, which may or may not happen depending on a variety of factors.  Not sure of the exact hardware on the 

I put in a new machine request (also wanted to get away from my SFF desktop at work i5 6 series with 8gb ram) because my excel calculations were taking 5 minutes per pivot table refresh (15mb excel file pulling from other network files).  For 4 months I waited with IT saying "its on backorder" all the while we are replacing some machines here with i7 9850H's so I grabbed one and checked its calc time and it was 10 seconds.  So I shot IT a message and was like - just give me one of these, what is taking so long I just need at least 8 threads and 16gb ram.

 

Response:  Your Xeon E-2276M powered laptop with 32gb of ram just arrived, will image and send to you today.

 

Me:  WORKSTATION LAPTOP.  Well, at least that explains the 4 month backorder delay lol.  Im all over here just crunching excel formula lol.

 

Also me: AND IT HAS A 10 KEYPAD  *masturbation noises intensify*

[fringie]

a potato.

 

No joke but these are the specs:

i7-2820QM  (dual core LUL)

16g ram

1tb SDD (at least 1 thing is nice)

 

 

oh and I do a type of development which can be very heavy on resources which run on Hyper-V (with a vm for the network & a DC also as it's usually installed on servers) LMAO. Jfc it's bad, sometimes I can't deploy because it fails midway. Since I remote work I just gave up and use my own pc usually. For context, similar development at my old job was done on servers 6 core server you'd connect to then later azure, now I do it on a dual core laptop.

[jpenguin]

Just an HP Prodesk 600 

[steelo]

LOL...I have the same EXACT computer at work running Win 10. It's okay, but gets slow when I have a lot of crap (especially large excel files) open at the same time. 4 cores and 8 GB of RAM isn't enough sometimes...

 

 

[Guest]

its some sort of Windows box with an i5 and two HP screens. Its a tiny little thing. Not that it needs an i5 when the software is ancient and runs like a dog anyway. 

[Derkoli]

Working in music/audio mastering/production, using 2019 iMac's with a 2tb "fusion drive", intel core i5, 8gb ram, and a Radeon pro 580x i believe, Prefer a window's PC, but its relatively easy to use with the software we use. And i hate the magic mouse with an absolute passion. Actually take a logitech MX Master with me as i hate the things so much.

[Eryck13]

I recently got a position as a System Developer at an insurance company working on their CRM and they gave me a Dell Inspiron 5400 with an 8th gen i7-8665U, 16gb of ddr4, and a 256gig nvme drive. Like most we also have docking stations paired with dual 27inch and 24inch monitors.