Why are they giving us computers the equivalent of chromebooks? We need better computers to do our jobs.
What a Chromebook is best for
• Web browsing, email, schoolwork, streaming, Google Docs
• Simple, fast, secure tasks
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This has been the case in every company I have ever worked for, but one. The CTO requested workstation class 18” laptops, fully loaded, for people who needed them due to the nature of their work. It was large and heavy, and it did the job. I loved to work under an executive who knew what his people were doing.
If you get the small garbage computers, consider it a sign that you are not long for the place. Noticed I was given one, being in a non-HUB location, when my employees who were in HUB locations got actual laptops. Within 6 months, I was laid off.
Network speed at the office is garbage compared to WFH. Monitors are small and su-k also. The worst tech I ever use is in the worthless office.
@b9 the laptop worked a whole lot better than the CloudPC does. It can barely handle the video on a Teams call.
Maybe 2% of the company needs something more powerful than the standard laptop. And there are upgraded laptops available if you go through the channels. But no, you probably can't play video games on the standard laptop.
It's about as applicable as saying you need a BMW M3 when all you really need is a Kia Sorento.
My husband laughed when he saw my laptop and my 6th grader has the same one.
@aj Soon they'll try to pay us in virtual currency and wonder why nobody can buy anything anymore.
Maybe you should get a hardwired PC and go in the office every day!
Oh wait, you’d complain about that, too.
@a2 everything is getting virtualized when you think about it. And it’s no bueno. Virtual AI employees. Virtual employees through offshoring. Virtual desks. Virtual mainframes. Virtual data centers virtually in the clouds.
The only thing left is virtual customers. Oh wait we did try that.
Why can they give us an allowance of 2k so we can buy our own computers?
There is a pretty big laptop shortage going on right now, that might be the issue
I just got a 14” HP ProBook. Love it.
My Dell is already a glorified d-mb terminal.
CloudPC is wholly ineffective as a platform.
If a pluralsight video is longer than 5 minutes, you have to refresh the page to watch the remainder of the video.
Teams recording will freeze, if not crash your CloudPC instance. "Watch in web browser" is no better, since it's streaming from the same source.
Random network disconnections.
If you happen to work off-hours and it's a weekend where the DC your CloudPC is in will be going offline, you can't work due to an outage until the DC becomes available again. Meaning, if you do work in a production environment, that work now has to be done by someone else (usually offshore) and your team's workload is now messed up.
When I still worked off the laptop, I could at least switch remote access portals when one went offline, or had a route to the network broken. We are less resilient than we used to be, all to save a few dollars.
Aren’t they moving to a paradigm where everything is done in the cloud so the machine in your hands is but a glorified d-mb terminal?