What's your work IT equipment like?

crinkleshoes · 26 Jul 2017 at 14:35

IMG_20170722_104356 by CosmicLogos, on Flickr

Bunka · 26 Jul 2017 at 14:39

Macbook Air and an iPhone 6s+ (soon to be refreshed). Does everything I need it to!

azazl187 · 26 Jul 2017 at 14:40

Vargas said:
Clearly your IT dept doesn't exist lol

Oh it does my friend, i am in it! Well i am in the technical services team. Lets just say i work for a company that doesnt invest too much in technical equipment

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Pyr0m@nI@]{ · 26 Jul 2017 at 14:41

Currently using an i5-3470 with 8gb of mem and a slow 500gb mechanical hdd
at least once a day i tell this pc i hate it out of frustration

Rannoch · 26 Jul 2017 at 14:48

azazl187 said:
Oh it does my friend, i am in it! Well i am in the technical services team. Lets just say i work for a company that doesnt invest too much in technical equipment .

And you use XP :eek:

Karl · 26 Jul 2017 at 14:51

Macbook pro 2016 15", 2.7ghz i7, 16gb ram, 512gb ssd
Dell U2415 monitor
Variety of dongles

ubersonic · 26 Jul 2017 at 14:52

Work laptop is 5 years old, but due to Intel having done jack **** in those 5 years it's still great spec.

i7-2760QM (3.5GHz 4c8t).
24GB DDR3-1600.
2GB FirePro M6100 (HD7870 performance).
1080p IPS screen.
Two 256GB SSDs and a 2TB HDD.
4G modem for when out of the office.

ajf · 26 Jul 2017 at 16:31

NewGamer11 said:
What's the 7500U like?

It's a good point about employee satisfaction, I've left jobs before partly due to rubbish computers. I don't have heavy power demands but often work in large spreadsheets.

As others mentioned SSDs would make a huge difference.

CPU seems fine for my needs. I don't really thrash it most of the time with what I use as it is typically office apps, RDP sessions and the like.
It's still only a dual core version so not massively different to the similar i5s.
The RAM and SSD are the biggest performance advantages.

d_brennen · 26 Jul 2017 at 16:37

Awesome servers, 7 year old desktops

I however, have an i7 4790, 16GB RAM, 3 x 24" 1920*1200 screens and a 256GB SSD

BigT · 26 Jul 2017 at 16:39

We're a mac shop. Everyone historically has had a Macbook Air or Pro depending on preference. My 4 year old Air still does everything I need of it as I only work on spreadsheets and email. I could get a new one if I wanted but I'd rather new kit goes to my developers, engineers and consultants who have more of a need for the latest & greatest specs. However the Apple logo is starting to burn into the screen so that may force a change in due course.

Nasher · 26 Jul 2017 at 16:42

BigT said:
We're a mac shop. Everyone historically has had a Macbook Air or Pro depending on preference. My 4 year old Air still does everything I need of it as I only work on spreadsheets and email. I could get a new one if I wanted but I'd rather new kit goes to my developers, engineers and consultants who have more of a need for the latest & greatest specs. However the Apple logo is starting to burn into the screen so that may force a change in due course.

You shouldn't get a burnt in picture on modern screens, not unless it's really cheap O_o

BigT · 26 Jul 2017 at 16:43

I'm not sure it's like the burn in image of old. In certain lights I see a dark apple logo outline in the middle of the screen where the lit logo is on the rear of the case.

olivier renault · 26 Jul 2017 at 16:52

6-cores 12-threads, 64Go RAM, 512Go SSD, 1060i, and two 1050p monitors

A little bit odd

Caged · 26 Jul 2017 at 16:58

BigT said:
I'm not sure it's like the burn in image of old. In certain lights I see a dark apple logo outline in the middle of the screen where the lit logo is on the rear of the case.

That's just light shining through from the back

NewGamer11 · 26 Jul 2017 at 19:51

Here is the beast from my OP:

Not the rubbish metal / carbon type effect they went for. It's plastic of course

ultralaser · 26 Jul 2017 at 19:55

Mixed, corporate baseline very much C2D, scattering of MBPs and Surfaces too.

Macky · 26 Jul 2017 at 20:16

Have you guys with poor setups asked for an upgrade? When I was working as an intern they gave me an extra monitor upon request. Fairly beefy setups were required by most of the engineers, though, as their work was CAD based. I had a xeon CPU of some description, 16gb RAM, some AMD CAD graphics card, a 1TB HDD and 2*24inch 1080p screens. Was a pretty sweet setup tbh.

danielanthony · 26 Jul 2017 at 20:24

I have an XPS15 but can also connect to a VDI terminal over a VPN so I can use my own kit from home if I want to.

almoststew1990 · 26 Jul 2017 at 20:30

There are 22 of us in the office, and most of us do report writing and emails etc. Most of us are on Ivy, Haswell and The Next One After Haswell based systems with 4GB of RAM and mechanical HDDs and integrated graphics. Some of the newer ones have SSDs in them. There is a rogue C2D slimline PC that refuses to die and is actually used heavily for AutoCAD despite the more modern machines everywhere...

The main problem, what with it being a small company that doesn't have an IT department or proper restrictions, is that everyone seems to end up with random toolbars installed and bloaty monitoring software for the printer drivers (why would everyone need that when we all work from the same room, and non of us can order more paper?!) which in turn has start up processes looking for updates to the update software. We do at least all have 24" 1080p screens.

I might as well ask a quick question here as I am the official unofficial IT Guy - is there any benefit in AutoCAD in having a basic discrete graphics card, for solely 2D work?

PapaLazaru · 26 Jul 2017 at 20:42

We all have laptops as we hotdesk and work from home and work out by the lake when the weather is good.

Rocking a Lenovo T460 on Win10 on an SSD.