What's your work IT equipment like?

Caged said:
The idea that "Macs aren't for technical people" has been dead for years. The same tired arguments are what led to resistance to iPads and iPhones in enterprise when they appeared on the scene as well, they're just poor excuses. Too many IT people wet their pants at the idea of something they need to manage that doesn't show up in Active Directory, fortunately they are a dying breed.
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this really, there are some* printer monkeys out there whose training/education has been a paint by numbers approach of vendor certificates and following set routines in their day to day work, they tend to be averse to change and/or anything that might require them to use some initiative or do things that they don't have written instructions for or some spoon fed training course to cover

(*to be clear and not wanting to offend people I do need to emphasise the "some" here - *not all* printer monkeys)
 
Work laptop is an msi gt72. I7 cpu 16gb ddr4, gtx980m, 2x 250gb sad in raid and a 2tb 7200rpm hdd. 17.3" 1080p IPS screen.

When not on the road I use my own desktop pc. Which is a x99 system, 2 x gtx1080ti, 16gb ddr4 and 5tb of ssd space with a 38" 3440x1440 screen and a second 1080p screen.
 
Work laptop is a Dell XPS 15 (9550)
Intel Core i7 - 6700HQ
16GB Ram
512GB NVME SSD

With a 34" 1440p Ultrawide Monitor

I'm a Systems Engineer so the extra real estate is handy.
 
13" MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, 3.3 GHz Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM, 512 GB SSD.

It's a nice machine but had to take it in when the screen stopped coming on reliably. Been fine since.
 
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Dell U3818DW 3860 x 1800 Monitor. 2017 Top Spec rMBP. 13 inch iPad Pro. I just get what I want. Helps that I hold the purse :)

Screen also acts as a docking station for the MacBook and provides full charing too all over one cable :) Going for a second screen to add to the experience soon.
 
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NHS here where we have a mix of very old (early 2000s) and very new computers, depending on which network it's attached to. Our tracking system for example is state of the art, all touch screens and ssd hdds. The core nhs system isn't great though and wastes an awful lot of time
 
Caged said:
Shocking nobody, you're completely wrong.

http://www.cio.com/article/3133945/hardware/ibm-says-macs-save-up-to-543-per-user.html
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IBM not wanting to send money directly to its competitors shocker :)

With the up tick in SAAS the end user device is becoming far less relevant so its not to surprising to see an uptick in Apple products in the work place, personally i still see them as a less productive solution, but exec's seem to love them as they project an air of success.
 
LizardKing said:
With the up tick in SAAS the end user device is becoming far less relevant so its not to surprising to see an uptick in Apple products in the work place, personally i still see them as a less productive solution, but exec's seem to love them as they project an air of success.
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Just like any tool, it depends on what you're using it for. As a developer, I love the Unix-like terminal I get straight out of the box with MacOS. I also love the ridiculously fast SSDs you get in a MacBook Pro.

In the past, I've also enjoyed the lack of corporate bloatware capable of being installed on Macs but it looks like enterprise developers have almost caught up in that regard. :(
 
The PC isn't bad (for an office PC). i5 4 core 2.9ghz , 4gb RAM, even gave me a reasonable 30' ultrawide monitor when they had to take my secondary monitor away (they bought cheap no-name adapters and got caught with their pants down when they turned out not to be Windows 10 compatible). They've actually spent quite a bit of cash lately replacing all the old mid 2000 boxes with these reasonable spec mini PCs.

Only problem is none of that matters an iota when they force us all to run everything through Citrix and the Citrix server is pants.
 
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