I have a ThinkPad and this checks out
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.
HP laptop: your company has no idea what it’s doing for it’s entire technology department
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
Accurate
Union.
HP but it switches with Dell every 5 years.
My peers have been there 20+ years. No one’s dumb enough to get fired. I only got this job because someone retired.
The people are awesome. I hope to God I can work here another decade.
Special rule:
Thinkpad but with 1600x900 resolution on the 24" screen and full hd on a 22" screen in the office.
That buys you only around 2 years from personal experience.
That job ain’t right.
I would instinctively start to strangle anyone who gives me a 900p screen that isn’t a CRT.
900p on an any LCD monitor at any point in history was always very wrong, something that should not be. Even 1080p is torture for office-ish work.
It was crappy monitors too so everyone was dealing with it differently like cardboard cutouts against incoming light or special glasses etc.
I worked in the office only 1 day per week but even that was too much. Christ.
what if you get to choose?
then you should pick the thinkpad for the extra job security
Then choose wisely.
Then you owe your IT unit a monthly sacrifice
What if I am the IT unit?
Hmm I don’t think you have to make a sacrifice to yourself, but you should probably buy yourself a sweet treat once a month just to be safe.
Bring in the interns?
Didn’t they just announce discontinuing the zipple?
:( RIP if so. My work recently upgraded to a newer thinkpad and they still have it. I don’t think I’ve ever reached for it though.
No, they announced one model is now available for those people who grumble about the nupple
Only a specific product line.
What about a Dell AIO?
Wait… but my manager has been at his job for 18 years and we use… oh god, Lenovos. 😱
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
An acer: your boss is gonna try and f*ck you
Hmm, is the boss hot?
… and sweaty … and hairy … very, very hairy. :(
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
My company just switched from Lenovo to Dell and gets rid of 20% of the workforce
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.
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