What if you get two HP Pavillion Desktops. One for home and one for the office?
You are getting paid for 40hrs of work per week, but expected to put in 80hrs
Haha.
I know this was a joke but I like to shout out that my employers are amazing.
I’m a software developer for a small company, less than 10 employees. Recently we got given a pay rise and a reduction in hours at the same time. They started the business to have a good life, not to work their employees to death.
We get so much support when needed and there is never an issue if you’re sick or just need a mental health day. We don’t get targets and the work just gets done. We are fair with our clients and they come back for repeat work and recommend us.
I work on a GPD Win Max 2, so what does that mean? 😃
…probably gonna get fired when my employer catches me playing Cyberpunk.
I had a Thinkpad L390 Yoga before. Constant overheating, the logo sticker just came off one day and stuck to my hand and the battery barely lasted through a meeting. Absolute garbage, never again. The Thinkpad brand is dead to me.
Now I have eight cores, 64GB RAM, a GPU with raytracing support and a 2K IPS display…all in 10 inches with 8-10 hours of battery life. GPD is insane and those specs would cost me an arm and a leg if I stuck with IBM.
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.
I’ve had so many Dell Laptops…
Used to have a ThinkPad decades back. Still remember Howard comfortable the typing was.
Howard Comfortable:
Where’s the thinkpad?
Decapitated. Whole big thing . We had a funeral for a bird.
On the other side of his chair, lying open on its side while Gentoo compiles.
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?
It’s a whole new level of comfortable.
HP laptop: please remember to log out of your laptop in case someone else needs to use it.
Always “a” dildo, or “the” dildo, never “your” dildo…
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
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.
creepily accurate in my experience.
I don’t even work in tech and that was my first thought.
Chromebook?
Either skeezy AF scam, or Google.
Or teacher
Or, believe it or not, both.
You’re selling meth
The good ending.
This.
Please kill me, these things suck so fucking bad.
They crash regularly during regular office work operation.
I had a coworker try to help me with something but his chromebook crashed 5 times in the span of 3 minutes.
Why should I believe you when you’re a trash girlfriend?
I do not see how my trashness or girlfriendness relates to the quality of chromebooks.
Did they ask you to make a western union transfer in order to secure your application?
I’m not getting that money back, am I?
They will also need a $500 deposit to ship you the chromebook, refundable after three months.
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.
What about a Dell AIO?
what if you get to choose?
Then choose wisely.
Then you owe your IT unit a monthly sacrifice
What if I am the IT unit?
Bring in the interns?
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.
Panasonic Toughbook: You’re gone get wet and dirty.
Promise?
I’ve seen them using them at In n out for the drive thru.
Wet and dirty indeed
Thoughtbook? is that like an offbrand ThinkPad?
Thoughts and prayers book is a whole other technology with paper and ink and shit.
Op got a porn studio job.
Sadly Thinkpads no longer are what they used to be. I got the X1 Extreme Gen 5 couple of years back and have had all kinds of problems with it. Blue screens, problem with fans sometimes getting stuck at 100%, constant problems connecting to the dock, not to mention bad battery life… My coworker had to get a warranty replacement when the usb-c port stopped working without any apparent reason only after a month of use. And other coworkers with newer models are also reporting issues.
You get better reliability from Apple than ThinkPads now. At way more money and with restrictions on what operating systems you can use.
What OS do you run. My last three x1 carbons have not had much of an issue running Linux.
I can tell you’re not an Arch user.
At the risk of falling into a trap… I use a downstream arch distro
It’s a damn shame too. I love my T530 so I got a T460 and it is so shite. Although I did get unlucky with a cracked mobo but still. Even the x260 I have feels slower than my 530
They may not be as good as they used to be but my T14 is so much nicer to type on than anyone else’s laptop.
