Why don't business laptops have SSDs as standard?

FishFluff said:
Your IT department are just cheapskates OP
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Not necessarily :p

When speccing the required budgets for the annual PC refresh, we were able to buy considerably more machines if they used a mechanical drive over an SSD. Something as I've previously posted that most users wouldn't know any different anyway.

I think we were able to upgrade 150 old machines with our budget, it would have been considerably less if SSD's were included. (I think around 110-120 was the number) - for a gain most wouldn't benefit from. But everyone would benefit from a new machine over an old one.
 
Phate said:
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.
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Urg. For whatever reason, we purchased a bunch of laptops with 4GB RAM and 128GB SSDs. User fills up RAM, Windows creates large page file, tiny SSD is already full so page file has nowhere to go, chaos ensues. Had 2 last week that happened too. Windows basically vomited the data all over the drive. One was a re-image (after adding more RAM...) and the other amazingly only lost the printers!
 
My work likes all computers to be as slow as possible, they even load loads of bloatware on to slow it down some more. Programs start automatically, I disable them but after a reboot or 2 a little script somewhere adds them back. I'd disable the script but it would probably kill my network access.
 
I can only dream of such wonders, our work computers for printing mandatory technical publications can take up to 15 minutes to log on, can't open most websites as its operating IE2 or something, crashes constantly and struggles to check emails.

And thats running windows XP, theyve just decided to update to win 7 for some bizarre reason.

The get around for this was they gave us 2 laptops which are reasonably quick, easily saving me 30 mins per job, but then decided to classify them as secret so you cant connect them to a printer.... for printing mandatory paperwork.
 
No SSD for me, though I should probably ask. It's a few years old now.

All newly provisioned laptops here now are either:

MBPr i7, 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD

or

HP Elitebook G1 with equivalent specs.
 
The thing is, no employer should be able to afford to have HDD's anymore. The lost time of workers is far too valuable even for entry level office assistants...
 
Considering the monstrous state if our work laptops (i7's with twin quadro's and literally every kind of connection port they thought could still be encountered in the world today) i'm amazed they aren't ssd driven. That said as mech drives go they do have fast ones.

Our intranet is horrifically slow, some stuff i'm forced to keep on my desktop and only upload as i'm done because it takes literally 10 minutes to save.
 
All new machines at my workplace have SSDs now.

My old laptop had an i5 and a 320gb mechanical drive.

New desktop has an i7 and I think 160gb SSD
 
I've built 3 PCs for our office and included SSDs. It's only a tiny company, and the PCs are only used for office, internet, and our customer records.

BUT, it makes such a difference to a machine it's unreal. The only people who don't realise this, is the people who have never used one.

I can see why a large company may not use them though, imagine ordering 100 SSDs over HDDs. The cost soon mounts up
 
Out of interest, for the people responsible for speccing their devices do you just go for one model and look for bulk discounts or base it on the requirements of each department and/or user?

My new boss wants me to have the best equipment available because I work in IT but I've argued that for remote support my 1GB P4 still does the job :D
 
Id say stick 128gb cheap as you can drives and ensure people are storing stuff on shared network drives, home drives etc. Which get backed up
 
Richdog said:
You only need around 160GB for a business laptop, any more means you are keeping too much data on your machine and puts a huge strain on company backup systems.
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You would hate us geeks in R&D - we have a 17 TB network drive for the six of us doing computational work. We had to have a round robin today to free up space as it's nearly full. 4 TB hard drive on each local machine too :p
 
Just stuck a MX200 500GB SSD in my work HP EliteBook (Core i7, 8GB) for Windows 10.

Something has to offset customers that think there's nothing wrong with XP and 2GB (or less!) of RAM. We've been shifting quite a few refurb'd HP desktops of late. C2D E8400, 4GB RAM and a 120GB SSD. Shows that for a lot of general office workers, the CPU isn't the bottleneck.
 
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