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spankmeister posted:What's 16gb and 512gb in this day and age anyway? Pretty standard stuff imo. It's about $2600 from PC Connection with a dock. Really that spec isn't very high, I agree. I guess we will replace that with something like a quad-core T480 in the next few months, probably saving $500-$800? We used to use a T520 or something which saves quite a few bucks over a full workstation like a W or P
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The Iron Rose posted:yeah i'm 100% okay with giving finance and accounting overpowered laptops so they can brute force their way through pivot tables rather than calling us in Our guys export 300,000 rows from our database and then do queries and poo poo on it in Excel. I get it, you know how to work with it, but guess what you can do the same thing in seconds if you just use the drat database. Part of this to blame is the owner of the company made two of our accounting people 'data analysts' and they spend all their time trying to find places to save very small sums of money, create redundant data, blah blah. Useless.
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I'm listening to my boss do a phone interview at his desk, and, uh, this is super painful to listen to. On one side, we have a non-technical person reading technical questions off a piece of paper and not understanding what he's asking. On the other side, we have an interviewee who's applying for a network position and doesn't know what ARP is.
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Just a reminder that desktop and laptop processors are very different. i3 desktops are perfectly functional, i3 laptops are best used as doorstops.
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Hell my own work machine is a desktop with a i5-3450, 8GB and 120GB SSD. The laptop I have (that I don't really use much) in an ancient HP Probook with i5-2400. Our upgrade cycle is "is it still working? Yes?, then it doesn't need replaced". I am switching to a modern laptop soon though.
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redeyes posted:Speaking of that, companies that buy laptops instead of proper workstations. RAGE While I am personally a fan of having a desktop, I get why laptops are the default option now. I guess my environments also have resources available to do the heavy lifting for things you need a desktop for.
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Feb 12, 2018 17:53
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Renegret posted:On the other side, we have an interviewee who's applying for a network position and doesn't know what ARP is. Sound a small dog makes when he doesn't know where to go?
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Feb 12, 2018 18:03
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Renegret posted:
Ancient Routing Protocol?
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Siochain posted:Sound a small dog makes when he doesn't know where to go? correct
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Renegret posted:On the other side, we have an interviewee who's applying for a network position and doesn't know what ARP is. Pretty sure that's the club for old people.
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Feb 12, 2018 18:20
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Bob Morales posted:"Why are emails being delayed? <whoever> sent me an email at 8:47 and it just came in at 9:07a." This, always this.
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Feb 12, 2018 18:36
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Our standard laptop is either an i5 with 8gb ram and 256gb ssd or an i7 with 16gb and 512gb ssd. The main deciding factor is whether or not your title is three letters starting with a C. Or if you're the one doing the ordering. This i7 elitebook 840 is really nice.
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Feb 12, 2018 18:41
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Alighieri posted:Pretty sure that's the club for old people. No poo poo, I received an AARP birthday card the day before my 50th birthday. No one escapes their attention.
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Feb 12, 2018 18:52
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Bob Morales posted:"Why are emails being delayed? <whoever> sent me an email at 8:47 and it just came in at 9:07a." The pigeon died from overwork.
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Renegret posted:On the other side, we have an interviewee who's applying for a network position and doesn't know what ARP is. You mean like Diablo or Torchlight?
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PremiumSupport posted:Ancient Routing Protocol? no that's RIP Malek posted:You mean like Diablo or Torchlight? no that's JRPG Alighieri posted:Pretty sure that's the club for old people. no I can't come up with a uh...freemasons?
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Renegret posted:no I can't come up with a somethingawful.com user forums
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The Fool posted:somethingawful.com user forums you fool 
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I'd have just gone with GOP 
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The Fool posted:This i7 elitebook 840 is really nice. 840 G5's ship this week.
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Feb 12, 2018 20:18
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quote:the password I use on my usual computer does not work on this one. 
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Feb 12, 2018 21:25
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Don't try to explain it to me, just fix it
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mewse posted:Don't try to explain it to me, just fix it <throws iPad Pro for emphasis>
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Feb 12, 2018 21:51
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Not domain connected or wrong username. How people gently caress up username I don't know, but they sure do it often.
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ilkhan posted:Not domain connected or wrong username. It's for a web app, so it's 100% not the domain thing. I'm standing far to the edge of this one. It's squarely on my co-worker, who is valiantly trying to figure out what's up.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:It's for a web app, so it's 100% not the domain thing. I'm standing far to the edge of this one. It's squarely on my co-worker, who is valiantly trying to figure out what's up. caps lock
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Feb 12, 2018 22:56
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Maybe the usual bad password is not accepted by the password policy?
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Nth Doctor posted:caps lock Or num lock lol
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Feb 12, 2018 23:01
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SCROLL LOCK
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stevewm posted:SSD at the least is standard though My dream job. Boss still buys hard drives. 
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ChubbyThePhat posted:Or num lock lol If the user is on a laptop, this is an A+ guess. Nothing like typing jkl and getting 123.
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Renegret posted:no that's RIP The LDS?
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Our baseline laptop is the Elitebook 840 G4 with 16G of RAM 
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I do like the 840's. Still using the side dock instead the poo poo USB3 or Thunderbolt docks.
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I feel like anything with less than 8GB of RAM and an i5 doesn't really have any business running Windows 10. I feel like if your employee isn't worth at least that, then why are they your employee?
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Thanatosian posted:I feel like anything with less than 8GB of RAM and an i5 doesn't really have any business running Windows 10. I feel like if your employee isn't worth at least that, then why are they your employee?
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I've put Windows 10 on a laptop with 4 gigs of RAM and a Core Duo. It surprisingly scales down quite well.
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GreenNight posted:I've put Windows 10 on a laptop with 4 gigs of RAM and a Core Duo. It surprisingly scales down quite well. Core 2 Quad and 8Gb here. Works well enough, and I can play Overwatch and Destiny 2 quite playably...
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Samizdata posted:Core 2 Quad and 8Gb here. Works well enough, and I can play Overwatch and Destiny 2 quite playably... C2Qs are still solid workhorses. C2Ds...not so much.
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dragonshardz posted:C2Qs are still solid workhorses. C2Ds...not so much. All I can say (even before my rebuild) is that this old girl must have been a bit of a god box back in '08.
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