How over-specced are your work's computers?

[krooton]

I'm all for the justification of a beefy machine in a work environment, but sometimes things get silly.

This is now the standard set up for anyone in the company, which includes standard call takers who at the most will be running 3 telnet windows (LOL) and maybe 3 webpages open.

E6550
1GB PC5300
80GB SATA
DVD-ROM

What a waste of power! I'm half tempted to open one of them up and swap my E2160 for the E6550, grrrr!

 

[krooton]

Over-specced? Phttt

Dell OptiPlex GX270
Intel Pentium 4, 2400 MHz
Intel(R) 82865G Graphics Controller (96 MB)
Maxtor 6E040L0 (40 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
System Memory 512 MB
Intel Springdale-G i865G(V)

Makes me cry

You should see the machines we are replacing with the E6550s.

Old Compaqs, either Celerons or 2.4Ghz P4s, but with 128/256MB RAM respectively, which was causing the main problems as user profiles/images are all stored on the network.

I even found a P3 powering one of the wallboards, hahaha!