Why don't business laptops have SSDs as standard?

I'm rocking a Dell E5440 with a 500GB SSD, i7 and 8GB RAM. Pretty decent for an Account Director doing nothing particularly technical. :p
 
Haggisman said:
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In our company, developers get i5/i7 with 12GB+ RAM and an SSD, virtually everyone else gets an i3 with 4-8GB and a mechanical drive.

If you're having to "reinstall all of your programs" then it sounds more like provision isn't being made to backup those programs, in which case you should either a) get your IT dept. to update the laptop image with the required programs, or b) stop installing programs that shouldn't be on your laptop in the 1st place ;)
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Yup, exactly that.
 
Woden said:
You guys are lucky. I have to work on a Wyse terminal that connects remotely to a WinXP session. He'll I still have to use Office 2007.
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lol yeah, we only upgraded from XP to 7 in April this year :p

elmarko said:
They are happy to pay contractors £600+ a day but then skimp out hugely on the hardware making everything take twice as long as it needs to. :( It took us close to a year to force them into getting us a 64b operating system so would could utilise the extra RAM. Sadly my employer don't factor in wasted time into the costs.
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And this, lovely new Dell machines here with i7 processors and 4GB RAM, but 32-bit version of Win 7, so it only sees the first 3.25GB, then the i7 to be bottlenecked by a mechanical drive.
 
My Dell i5 based laptop has a disk which is so slow that it is significantly outperformed by my C2D laptop at home (not helped by a crap corporate Win7 build).

The next round of replacement laptops are supposed to be getting SSDs but given a 4 year replacement cycle I have about 3 years to wait for a new one. Several of my colleagues have upgraded theirs unofficially at their own expense but sod that.
 
As said, it's normally due to cost, also lack of knowledge of tech when upgrading.

My old boss was convinced for a while that SSD's didn't make 'much of a difference' due to his Gen1 80gb SSD being completely full, therefore slowing right down.

I showed him the performance of a more modern day SSD, then he was convinced. :p

Also, a normal user does not need an SSD.
 
memyselfandi said:
They do with our corporate Win7 build ... I don't know what they include but I've never seen Windows 7 run so slowly ...
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Or...they could tune the image to run more efficiently/faster.

OR you could be like my last place where InfoSec were allowed free rein and loaded on so many bloody agents it slowed the machines down :p

Also don't forget RAM.

We did some testing with users and apart from the initial start up time they could not tell the difference between SSD & Mechanical drives. Only power users/techy people actually notice a difference.
 
We use mechanical drives in our desktops and SSHD's in our laptops. My new boss has questioned why we didn't supply all devices with SSDs along with i7's and at least 16GB RAM. He doesn't know much :)
 
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