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HP laptop: your company has no idea what it's doing for it's entire technology department

HP laptop: please remember to log out of your the laptop in case someone else needs to use it.

Edit: Management took offence at the language of the previous memo.

Imagine getting a new job. You come into the office on the first day. Instead of handing you a laptop, they just give you a chair in the break room. You'll be working off a linux distro that's been installed into the door of a smart fridge.

Siemens PG: forget about making a resume ever again.

Panasonic Toughbook: You're gone get wet and dirty.

My company is using Lenovo, and a bunch of my colleagues were already working there 20+ years ago, now I've got a permanent contract too... I think it might check out.

Lenovo replaced with Dell when the startup I work at was purchased by a multinational a year and a half ago. They’re closing our office down and moving operations out of state in June.

My last tech job gave me a Microsoft Surface, which possibly explains why I was hired with the promise that things would be really busy, barely did anything for a year, and then got let go because there just wasn't enough work to justify retaining my position.

I'm in a weird unicorn org where we were issued MacBooks, but some of the people on my team have been there >20 years. The broader org issues Thinkpads, my dept picked MacBooks because apparently that's what developers use and we didn't want to deal with corporate's locked-down images.

I've been there about 4 years now, which is almost as long as my dept has existed (we started w/ a contractor group for 1-2 years before I got hired on).

I hate macOS, but I really like the dept. We'll see what happens.

Chromebook?

Can confirm. Currently on year eight, always with Lenovo.

I was able to choose my own Lenovo. Twice. 14+ years at the same place.

Used to have a ThinkPad decades back. Still remember Howard comfortable the typing was.

Wait... but my manager has been at his job for 18 years and we use.... oh god, Lenovos. 😱

Sadly Thinkpads no longer are what they used to be. I got the X1 Extreme Gen 5 couple of years back and have had all kinds of problems with it. Blue screens, problem with fans sometimes getting stuck at 100%, constant problems connecting to the dock, not to mention bad battery life... My coworker had to get a warranty replacement when the usb-c port stopped working without any apparent reason only after a month of use. And other coworkers with newer models are also reporting issues.

What if it is an IBM ThinkPad.

creepily accurate in my experience.

An acer: your boss is gonna try and f*ck you

I have a ThinkPad and this checks out

So what if all the desks are set up with thin or zero clients.

What about a Microsoft Surface?

My company switched from Lenovo to Toshiba... what does that mean?

Now we're switching to Dell

what if you get to choose?

My company just switched from Lenovo to Dell and gets rid of 20% of the workforce

We got lenovo's in my last job. I did support software tools for internal usage. Pay was low but work was not overbearing and I could have spent my whole life there. Current job, I got a MinisForum mini PC, what does that mean?

Special rule:

Thinkpad but with 1600x900 resolution on the 24" screen and full hd on a 22" screen in the office.

That buys you only around 2 years from personal experience.

I've had so many Dell Laptops...

What about a Framework laptop?

Edit: or a desktop that you can remote into from your personal machine if you want to work outside the office?

Didn't they just announce discontinuing the zipple?

What if you get two HP Pavillion Desktops. One for home and one for the office?

@reallykindasorta didn't they stop making trackpoint on ThinkPads?

I work on a GPD Win Max 2, so what does that mean? 😃

...probably gonna get fired when my employer catches me playing Cyberpunk.

I had a Thinkpad L390 Yoga before. Constant overheating, the logo sticker just came off one day and stuck to my hand and the battery barely lasted through a meeting. Absolute garbage, never again. The Thinkpad brand is dead to me.

Now I have eight cores, 64GB RAM, a GPU with raytracing support and a 2K IPS display...all in 10 inches with 8-10 hours of battery life. GPD is insane and those specs would cost me an arm and a leg if I stuck with IBM brainfart, Lenovo of course.

What about a Dell AIO?