I’ve had so many Dell Laptops…
I’m in a weird unicorn org where we were issued MacBooks, but some of the people on my team have been there >20 years. The broader org issues Thinkpads, my dept picked MacBooks because apparently that’s what developers use and we didn’t want to deal with corporate’s locked-down images.
I’ve been there about 4 years now, which is almost as long as my dept has existed (we started w/ a contractor group for 1-2 years before I got hired on).
I hate macOS, but I really like the dept. We’ll see what happens.
We get macbooks at my work because we develop for linux servers but IT don’t want to have to deal with linux clients on their network.
The corporate surveillance infrastructure is there for MacOS and it’s nix enough for the development we need to do.
We had them complaining a few years ago that all these macbooks were too expensive (which they are) and we said to them “We’re happy to take good quality Linux laptops…”
IT were like “Nah”
My first laptop with this company was a £3000+ MBP with an I9 which got too hot to touch. TBH since they replaced it with an M3 one i’ve actually enjoyed using it. i can spend all day in bed on a single charge
Are you British me? That’s pretty much exactly how things went down for us as well. As we’ve been upgrading from the crappy Intel Macs, the complaints have gone down as well.
Yeah i’m london based (although almost exclusively work from home). the company is a huge multinational though, offices all over the world
HP laptop: your company has no idea what it’s doing for it’s entire technology department
Accurate
My last 3 jobs all used HP… No major issues.
Boot up from external device and watch it wipe non-windows boot entries (yes, even with secure boot off) and then not automatically find any other EFI files so you have to navigate to them manually. Oh, and the only way to add them back is efibootmgr tool, or if you want GUI, Bootice in Hiren’s boot (yes that’s still a thing).
At least that was experience with HP 255 G7.As for another one, a mini PC, the UEFI setup seems to have limited HID driver support. Basic cheap keyboard seems to be a must. DO NOT DISABLE SECURE BOOT IF JUST THE MOUSE WORKS!!! Upon reboot, it will ask you to confirm disabling secure boot by TYPING in something. Every time. Even if you reset UEFI with the motherboard pins.
At least that was experience with HP ProDesk 400 G3 mini.But hey, I also had issues with Dell, I think Optiplex 7020. It was unable to boot via internal DVD drive. I tried 2 of them, both fared the same, no problem reading and burning discs in OS. I tried a USB DVD drive, that magically worked. What?
Yeah but a random (non IT especially) probably wouldn’t need to boot from an external device, would they? As for the UEFI changes, a random employee shouldn’t be in the BIOS either I would think.
I’m really curious on those, I don’t do that sort of thing these days so sort of wondering how impactful it could be. Outside of the random person who thinks they should change them but that’s got to be pretty minimal and IT should lock it down anyways.
Worst thing that happened with my HP work laptop is somebody knocked my water over onto it and it died. That was 2 hours after I got it and spend 2 hours installing everything onto it.
I spilled coffee on my thinkpad once and it was fine … I honestly believe that it would take a tsunami of saltwater before it died
What about a Microsoft Surface?
From a sample size of one other commenter, you will be employed for 1 year until they can’t find enough for you to do and have to let you go.
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I have a ThinkPad and this checks out
So what if all the desks are set up with thin or zero clients.
Your boss is constantly micromanaging you, but you can’t get anything done because thin clients suck.
Haha, I set up a few hundred for a transition happening at a college years ago. They also got a few laptops that were thin clients. For a full time machine id assume it would be problematic. But when it’s constantly rotating users like that, it makes management pretty simple / cheaper long term. I assume they took some of the market away from products like deepfreeze. (Not saying it’s a better solution than deepfreeze, just that they likely stole some of the users)
I’ve heard Wyse has gone downhill since Dell bought it though, not sure if true.
Layoffs will be a regular occurrence. Think you’re safe because you have a lot of seniority? My wife was laid off by Chase just a couple weeks before her 20 year anniversary. Funnily enough, they had just switched everyone to thin clients a year or two before.
It was a sign they were trying to cut long term costs over user convenience long term when they switched to thing clients. Budget cuts are never a good sign in business that are “supposed” to be growing
Lol I got a layoff notice last Thursday at another financial institute. Our whole environment is Lenovo. I noticed at the end of last year that 2025s upcoming EOL refresh was going to be all thin laptop conversions.
But don’t worry guys, I can apply for 10 dollars less an hour to the new contractor they are bring on to delay the inevitable.
My last tech job gave me a Microsoft Surface, which possibly explains why I was hired with the promise that things would be really busy, barely did anything for a year, and then got let go because there just wasn’t enough work to justify retaining my position.
Every month the CEO rolls a D100, if it’s a 100 you’re fired.
We need to expand the meme!
I can second this too, 8 months same exact thing
Used to have a ThinkPad decades back. Still remember Howard comfortable the typing was.
Howard Comfortable:
Always comfortable that fucking Howard
Fucking Howard is someone different but I can’t post a picture of him here.
Is he Hide the Pain Harold’s more fortunate brother?
16 times the comfort
It’s a whole new level of comfortable.
Where’s the thinkpad?
On the other side of his chair, lying open on its side while Gentoo compiles.
Decapitated. Whole big thing . We had a funeral for a bird.
Can confirm. Currently on year eight, always with Lenovo.
Year 12. Started issuing Microsoft Surfaces at some point. I got an exception made for me.
creepily accurate in my experience.
I don’t even work in tech and that was my first thought.
My company switched from Lenovo to Toshiba… what does that mean?
Now we’re switching to Dell
Now we’re switching to Dell
Fs in chat. O7
Joke’s on you, I have a trackpoint on my Dell Latitude
Still gonna get laid off, but at least your index finger gets a little more action.
What if it is an IBM ThinkPad.
Bonus security because you’re clearly developing for legacy code.
Lenovo replaced with Dell when the startup I work at was purchased by a multinational a year and a half ago. They’re closing our office down and moving operations out of state in June.
You cash out?
I got a decent windfall when my stock vested instantly, but I don’t think I’m going to make it to the final payout of my retention bonus. As soon as annual bonus hits in March, I’m donion rings.
Think about the sink cost. It’s not fallacy. You have the numbers in front of you. You’re at the finish line, you can do this.
It’s not enough money to make up for immediately being unemployed after.
I’d rather just continue to have a job.
