What laptop does your company provide staff with?

[Testi Cles]

Also, what are the specs?

One of the big 4 audit company provide 14" HP elite book, touch screen, 8GB ram, i5

A government audit institution provides HP Zbook, 15", i7, 16 GB ram

 

[geezer]

Mine at work is a Dell Inspiron (not sure about the model number), 15" Screen i5, 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD

 

[rh1]

In my experience, it goes two ways, bigger screen and built in numeric keypads, easier when working on big spreadsheets.

Smaller screen, smaller keyboard, more portable and lighter. This seems to be the current trend in most companies, with the end user having little input into the machine they will be using.

Having said that, most people only carry the laptop from parking lot to office etc, so the weight become less of an issue.

Therefore I was luckily been able to request from IT that they buy my team laptops with builtin numeric keypads/bigger screens. Rest of specs as per IT/Company policy.

 

[Luke7777]

Depends on usage.. Devs will have a higher spec than consulting , and management smaller in size
Dev
HP EliteBook 850 G6 - Intel Core i7-8565U, 16GB 2400MHz DDR4 1D, 512GB PCIe, 15.6 FHD (1980x1080)
Consulting
HP EliteBook 850 G6 - Intel Core i5-8265U, 8GB 2400MHz DDR4 1D, 256GB PCIe, 15.6 FHD (1980x1080)
Management
HP EliteBook 830 G6 - Intel Core i7-8565U, 8GB 2400MHz DDR4 1D, 256GB PCIe NVMe, 13.3 FHD (1980x1080),

When in office, all devs have a 2nd 23" monitor

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

the cheapest

 

[Sinbad]

I've got a Dell i7 with 16gb of ram and 500gb ssd.

I think my next one will be a MacBook pro. Just for a change of scenery.

 

[Kola_CT]

Depends on role in the company from a list of choices.

Most of us also have 2nd monitors.

 

[rh1]

If I did have input:

SSD, no need for big HDD, all work needs to be the on server. In my opinion, really good boost to productivity.

Large battery capacity. With load shedding and working from home, this is becoming more important, luckily work laptop seems to last a minimum of 4 hours currently.

 

[sapr3.techie]

Dell Latitude 5590
> Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8350U CPU @ 1.70GHz, 1896 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
> 16GB RAM
> 256GB SSD

 

[copacetic]

Dell Latitude 5400: I5-8365U / 16GB, DDR4 / M.2 512GB SATA / 14" FHD WVA (1920 x 1080)

It's a lovely laptop. However, it cannot compete with my desktop PC, which is not particularly powerful, but still a solid mid-range gaming PC.

The kicker though is the monitor situation - I've got a dual monitor setup at home: a 32 inch 2K @ 144Hz, with a secondary 27 inch HD monitor @ 75Hz. This is, for work-related purposes, glorious in terms of buttery smoothness and a sea of pixels to work with.

At the office I've got a 25UM58-P, which is not bad by any means, but in comparison to what I am currently using at home, there's a big difference in usability. I actually have two of these, and when back in the office, I need to figure out how (if possible), I can hook up the other one to the Thunderbolt port. When the power went off the other day I was trying to work on the laptop screen and it was like this:

 

[TEXTILE GUY]

HP Zbook -15", i7, 16 G Ram

 

[Aghori]

The crappiest cheapest ones available that takes minutes to load an application.

 

[skimread]

The crappiest cheapest ones available that takes minutes to load an application.

The crappiest hand me down is reserved for new employees.

 

[azbob]

Support stuff : Dell Latitude/Inspiron

Engineers and Scientists : Dell XPS/Precisions

Programmers : MacBook Pro

Project Managers and others who want to seem important : MacBook Airs

 

[NiTeD]

Anything you want. I chose a 16" Mbp with i9 & 1 TB

 

[OCP]

We had a bunch or HP Folio's that have all died due to over heating.

Have replaced and standardized on Lenovo T4x0 series. The analysts love them.
(i7 / 16GB / SSD)

The new USB-C docks are nice and small but have had several replaced under warranty.

 

[johnjm]

XPS or latitudes

 

[Rocket-Boy]

Most companies go with Dell for the support.
I chose a MBP mainly due to the Linux work I do and the ease of setting up SSH tunnels.
The company I work for uses Dell for 99% of their equipment and the base spec is an i5 with 16GB ram and 256GB+ SSD.

 

[Dan C]

14" HP elite book

 

[CB40]

The company doesn't supply laptops,only desktops.
I bought my own Dell Inspiron 7720 i7 with a 17" screen