Well you could kill for the business desktop machines at my prior job, but it would be like killing someone for their socks.
1GB RAM powerhouses with 5400 RPM disks.
I lobbied hard for 6 months, doing research for them, laying out how little it would cost to buy new machines, and an additional monitor for all the developers, going so far as to do benchmarks of our software on my home machine (consumer-level $1200 Core i7) compared to the work cast-offs.
I quit when it was clear they did not care about the concerns of the developers at all, just cared for milking the sole golden goose.
But managers who did little more than PowerPoint, Outlook and surfing the net got budget to upgrade their laptops to specs that outclassed any machine the engineers had, it was pretty depressing.
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Well you could kill for the business desktop machines at my prior job, but it would be like killing someone for their socks.
1GB RAM powerhouses with 5400 RPM disks.
I lobbied hard for 6 months, doing research for them, laying out how little it would cost to buy new machines, and an additional monitor for all the developers, going so far as to do benchmarks of our software on my home machine (consumer-level $1200 Core i7) compared to the work cast-offs.
I quit when it was clear they did not care about the concerns of the developers at all, just cared for milking the sole golden goose.
But managers who did little more than PowerPoint, Outlook and surfing the net got budget to upgrade their laptops to specs that outclassed any machine the engineers had, it was pretty depressing.
Luxury .... We used to have to get up 10mins before we went to sleep, toggle the OS into a turing machine with our teeth and pay SAP for doing it.....