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Your work/development PC
- Thread starter Cicero
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Some sweet specs.... Just out of interest, what would you develop with that PC?? Web Design, Desktop applications?? What graphics card do you have with that PC?
I do all my stuff on my laptop... although it feels really slow, and a format would do the trick.
Johnatan56
Honorary Master
Non company, my school laptop. Studying AppDev dev at uni, need the system specs for the android emulators, they are badly optimized.
And GTX960M.
The Lenovo Y5070.
Edit: CamiKaze, your text doesn't look that great on my screen, have you tried using ClearType or do you like it like that?
And GTX960M.
The Lenovo Y5070.
Edit: CamiKaze, your text doesn't look that great on my screen, have you tried using ClearType or do you like it like that?
$m@Rt@$$
Expert Member
Management in my experience don't care. Hardware is IT politics 101 in companies.
Are you a new hire?
Is your story something like this
New hire intermediary developer X joins company.
IT gets told to purchase a new machine by HR.
Senior Developer A asks his manager or the manager himself wants it and instructs IT to give it to him.
The senior developer A/manager gets the new machine.
Developer B always complained about his machine so he gets developer As/manager machine.
New hire developer X gets told his machine is being prepped by IT. (in reality the user profile gets deleted or windows gets reinstalled of old developer B machine)
New hire notices 4GB RAM and slow 5400rpm /7200rpm SATA disk. Keyboard is also not so lekker. Best LCD external monitors are already taken. Googling the model number shows the model was manufactured 5 years ago.
New hire complains about laptop/machine and get told usually laptops/machine get replaced after 3 years. (In reality this means you have to stay 2 years until getting a hand-me-down after laptop reaches the age of 5). If lucky 2 to 4GB additional RAM gets added to new hire's machine after 1 year and battery gets replaced.
Over a year New developer X does well but get told sometimes he works a bit slow and doesn't test his code properly.
Developer X starts getting frustrated by not being able to be as productive as he can be and having to work longer hours to meet deadlines.
Developer X always raises issue of old laptop which is now 4 years old.
Developer X gets pissed off that most students have faster machines when he is a professional and junior developers & sales staff in his company have better spec'ed laptops
After 1 year developer X starts looking at jobs sites. Finds a job and quits.
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Whahaha, you speak the truth, it was exactly like this in my old company.
Its not like this for me this time, I'm just trying to get a feel of what other developers feel is necessary. I've seen developers get very frustrated with their PC's, and they're on them 8-10+hrs a day running 10+ programs at once whilst management give them an office workers PC thats meant for email and the odd spreadsheet. They just dont get it.
It's a pity that companies don't allow developers to bring their own laptops. It would save money and solve a lot of issues. I guess security and company policy prevents it.
Here is another story
There has been instances where I have taken my personal laptop to work. I always get asked whose laptop that by other IT staff. Sometimes I pull their legs and say the company has bought me a laptop. Irrespective of the spec of my personal laptop this has always caused anger from the others. Afterwards I always hear others softly swearing at their desks. Once this sales & training guy with a pretty new spec laptop, much faster than my work laptop saw me on it. He asked me to show him something on it and commented how fast it was a couple of times. Afterwards he went to sit as his desk. Immediately thereafter I hear him shouting as loudly as his can "My laptop is so slow" 3 times. He then continues to smash his laptop a couple of times until dropping it on the floor. He stands up and leaves the room. I just thought to myself. What an Idiot.
The other time I bought myself a new laptop bag online as mine got worn out. When it got delivered by courier, the box resembled the size of a laptop box. Suddenly others assumed I got a new laptop and they were asking me is that a new laptop laptop. I joked and said yes and next thing 5 people were standing around my desk. People I never speak with wanted me to see me unbox the thing. When I just pulled out a laptop bag they all disappeared just as quickly as they appeared.
'Merica!
reactor_sa
Executive Member
Dell latitude here, e7440 ultrabook - i7 8gb ssd 1080p and a 24" 2nd display
etienne_marais
Honorary Master
Used my home PC for a long time at work (AMD Phenom II, 8GB, SSD) until work finally supplied a Lenovo Laptop (i7 5500 @ 2.4GHz, 6GB Ram but 5400 rpm 1TB HD). The HD is such a bottleneck that I am willing to pay for a small SSD drive myself.
