by "itschrome" (itschrome)
Published 03/24/2017 at 13:43
by "itschrome" (itschrome)
Published 03/24/2017 at 13:43
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So I started a new job recently and when they asked what I’d want as a work laptop to work from home I may have joked about what I wanted to hard. because today they gave me this...
haha I don’t need this for work.
For non PC folks this is like getting a Corvette as a work car when you really only need a kia..
"ArmadaExpress drives a turbo outback" (armadaexpress)
03/24/2017 at 13:45, STARS: 0
Kinja’d?
"itschrome" (itschrome)
03/24/2017 at 13:45, STARS: 1
always. fixed.
"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
03/24/2017 at 13:46, STARS: 1
"deekster_caddy" (deekster_caddy)
03/24/2017 at 13:47, STARS: 0
Well it’s going to last a lot of years, that’s for sure. Nice machine!
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
03/24/2017 at 13:47, STARS: 4
Nice problem you have there!
"BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest." (bmanultima)
03/24/2017 at 13:49, STARS: 0
Is that a Z Book?
"itschrome" (itschrome)
03/24/2017 at 13:49, STARS: 0
2.5 years based on tech rotation to be exact.
"whoarder is tellurium" (whoarder)
03/24/2017 at 13:50, STARS: 0
Can they upgrade kinja too?
Nice work system!
"itschrome" (itschrome)
03/24/2017 at 13:50, STARS: 0
Yes it is. 17 inch Z book.
"itschrome" (itschrome)
03/24/2017 at 13:50, STARS: 1
haha right. but it’s such over kill my real problem is not using it as my personal now.
"BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest." (bmanultima)
03/24/2017 at 13:51, STARS: 0
Noishe.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
03/24/2017 at 13:52, STARS: 1
Just stay off the pron.
"My X-type is too a real Jaguar" (TomSlick)
03/24/2017 at 13:52, STARS: 0
This is my work machine, while working on the VPN and with my phone system up and running Goto Webinar and 18 web pages.
"itschrome" (itschrome)
03/24/2017 at 13:53, STARS: 3
but the screen is sooo sharp and clear...
"TheRevanchist" (therevanchist)
03/24/2017 at 13:54, STARS: 0
Not a bad graphics card, either.
"itschrome" (itschrome)
03/24/2017 at 13:54, STARS: 2
no one can fix kinja. the last person sent to fix kinja has never been seen. kinja kinja’d him. no one is safe..
"MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner" (montegoman562)
03/24/2017 at 13:54, STARS: 2
definitely stay off the pron then...sometimes you don’t want it THAT clear
"LongbowMkII" (longbowmkii)
03/24/2017 at 13:55, STARS: 0
Nah, a P2 would be a troll computer. This is just #winning
"itschrome" (itschrome)
03/24/2017 at 13:55, STARS: 1
right. like what the hell is this system even built for? some one who just has to run CAD on the go?? it’s such a stupid crazy configuration for a laptop haha.
"MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner" (montegoman562)
03/24/2017 at 13:55, STARS: 1
hopefully it utilizes an i7 better than this stupid macbook pro I’m on.
"itschrome" (itschrome)
03/24/2017 at 13:55, STARS: 1
haha gross... but true..
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
03/24/2017 at 13:56, STARS: 0
But Windows 10. Ew.
"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
03/24/2017 at 13:57, STARS: 0
17" workstation and it only has a 15w Ultrabook processor?
"itschrome" (itschrome)
03/24/2017 at 13:57, STARS: 1
Oh most definitely. if you want the best from the x86 platform it’s best to use an os designed for it. just uninstall mac os and install windows and you’ll be golden.
"MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s" (mastermario)
03/24/2017 at 13:59, STARS: 0
That’s better than my computer and I run CAD programs all the time.
"MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner" (montegoman562)
03/24/2017 at 13:59, STARS: 0
Well, this is MY work computer and they’ll frown upon that lol.
For some reason creatives all still think they have to use mac to do creative work.
Been using the adobe suite on PC/Windows since 2002 - it’s completely fine over there and your cost per machine will plummet for the performance switching to PC.
"TylerJ" (TylerJ)
03/24/2017 at 14:01, STARS: 0
Buy an SSD from Amazon that will fit that laptop, pull the HDD that is in it, install Windows to the SSD you bought to use as your personal SSD, and switch between the two as needed.
"itschrome" (itschrome)
03/24/2017 at 14:03, STARS: 0
that’s acutally pretty smart but also more work than I’m willing to do haha.
"Svend" (svend)
03/24/2017 at 14:03, STARS: 1
You really don’t want to look at them too hard.
It’s bad enough watching a BBC channel in HD.
On not the work computer, Google porn stars with and without make up. Then click images rather than going through to a web page. Some crazy before and afters. Remember to shred you internet history.
"TheRevanchist" (therevanchist)
03/24/2017 at 14:04, STARS: 0
Before Bang & Olufsen, HP had partnered with Beats for the audio design on some of the HP laptops. You seem to have lucked out there, as well.
"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
03/24/2017 at 14:12, STARS: 0
Judging by the B&O audio I’m gonna guess this is some sort of HP EliteBook?
"R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet" (r-saldana)
03/24/2017 at 14:14, STARS: 0
Upgraded my Electrical Engineers to this a few weeks ago:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834154533
"jariten1781" (jariten1781)
03/24/2017 at 14:14, STARS: 0
I keep a Linux-on-a-stick USB for when I need more than the work provided infrastructure provides. Many weeks I’m using it 90% of the time.
"Verdog ~ manual Bro, Bro - HellHawk Equipped" (verdog)
03/24/2017 at 14:15, STARS: 1
Nice, gotta love free horsepower though. My work Laptop:
"AndyG_UK" (ajg1974)
03/24/2017 at 14:19, STARS: 2
It’s his work computer, it needs a proper OS that you know runs proper business applications and integrates in to an AD environment...........
"MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner" (montegoman562)
03/24/2017 at 14:23, STARS: 0
LOL
"TylerJ" (TylerJ)
03/24/2017 at 14:24, STARS: 0
It’s what I wanted to do with my work laptop. Also, like you, it’s more work than I’m willing to do. I’ll just carry around my actual personal laptop and a spare charger.
"GhostZ" (GhostZ)
03/24/2017 at 14:25, STARS: 0
Probably aimed at gaming students in college. Parents buy them an expensive laptop so that they can play video games and still take it to classes, because an expensive laptop is cheaper than a cheap laptop + desktop.
"itschrome" (itschrome)
03/24/2017 at 14:25, STARS: 0
whoops, your correct it’s a 15 inch.
"itschrome" (itschrome)
03/24/2017 at 14:27, STARS: 0
I’m a windows server admin, so yes you are correct.
"itschrome" (itschrome)
03/24/2017 at 14:27, STARS: 0
there’s nothing wrong with a properly managed and configured windows 10 machine.
"itschrome" (itschrome)
03/24/2017 at 14:27, STARS: 0
daaam son.
"itschrome" (itschrome)
03/24/2017 at 14:28, STARS: 0
nice!
"itschrome" (itschrome)
03/24/2017 at 14:29, STARS: 0
maybe but a Firepro isn;t the graphics card I’d use for that route. sure it would probably all high settings on a lot of games it’s not really aimed at gaming as much as raw engendering like CAD or animation. neither of which i would want to do on a laptop.
"Tareim - V8 powered" (tareimgaml)
03/24/2017 at 14:38, STARS: 0
It’s an AMD so at best it’s the equivalent of a camaro rather than a corvette
"itschrome" (itschrome)
03/24/2017 at 14:44, STARS: 0
only the gpu... and dispute the lack luster peperformance of their gaming cards their workstation cards are pretty decent.
"user314" (user314)
03/24/2017 at 14:57, STARS: 1
Upgrade Kinja?
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
03/24/2017 at 14:57, STARS: 0
Windows 10 may do all that, but I do not have to like Windows 10.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
03/24/2017 at 14:58, STARS: 0
It’s the UI that I don’t like.
"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
03/24/2017 at 15:20, STARS: 0
Still a bit of an ouch to be paying $1700 for a workstation class device and getting the same processor you can get in most ultrabooks. I mean, couldn’t they at least throw in a 45w Quad Core?
"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
03/24/2017 at 15:25, STARS: 0
Power is fun.
"Will with a W8 races an E30" (hi-im-will)
03/24/2017 at 15:58, STARS: 0
Use all that ram to do some work son!
^^mine right now.
"GE90man" (ge90man)
03/24/2017 at 16:10, STARS: 0
hey I have the same processor! What computer?
"itschrome" (itschrome)
03/24/2017 at 16:15, STARS: 1
hp Z book
"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain)
03/24/2017 at 16:28, STARS: 0
My work laptop:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz, 2808 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
Installed Physical Memory (RAM): 32.0 GB DDR4
Video: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
Hard drives:
1 TB NVMe SSD
1 TB SATA SSD
I work on large photoshop files, illustrator, and every now and again - video editing but 75% of my time is just a web browser, slack, and office. That said, Photoshop and Illustrator are never closed.
"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain)
03/24/2017 at 16:31, STARS: 0
And a quadro card! I opted for the GTX 1070 since it’s a better card for the general computing that I do (mix of photoshop, illustrator, video compression, and web stuff) but those Quadro cards are great for CAD.
"deekster_caddy" (deekster_caddy)
03/24/2017 at 16:31, STARS: 0
Wow. We give out machines for a minimum of 3 years, and if nobody is complaining they won’t hear from us proactively until 5!
"Verdog ~ manual Bro, Bro - HellHawk Equipped" (verdog)
03/24/2017 at 16:34, STARS: 0
Crap, that a lot of RAM usage!
"Verdog ~ manual Bro, Bro - HellHawk Equipped" (verdog)
03/24/2017 at 16:39, STARS: 1
So far I am impressed with the Quadro this is the first I’ve used. In the past I steered clear because of OpenGL. Pushes 4k easily (4k display) and may play a few games nicely as well (of course I’ve never tested being a work machine).
"Will with a W8 races an E30" (hi-im-will)
03/24/2017 at 16:45, STARS: 0
CAD file conversion can be a memory hog...
Started 3 hours ago...it’s still going.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/24/2017 at 16:46, STARS: 0
it’s an ULV so no, that i7 isn’t really much faster than an i5 ULV and it’s dual core...
"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
03/24/2017 at 16:56, STARS: 0
I was hoping for opposite, like a Win98 suitcase laptop or something.
"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
03/24/2017 at 17:29, STARS: 0
Oh man, I bet that is fun.
"SOCdriver" (socdriver)
03/25/2017 at 02:36, STARS: 0
At my work we just finished selecting the new standardized systems, it is based on your job role. We don’t let managers and employees dick the IT department around. Nobody has time for that shit.
"itschrome" (itschrome)
03/25/2017 at 16:04, STARS: 1
I am the It department haha
"KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs" (kusabisensei)
03/29/2017 at 09:57, STARS: 1
Yeah, but then the IT department will go completely overboard with AD GPO, which ends up making a Core i7 6820HQ with 32GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD about as fast as a PDP-11.
Technically it’s the fact that the Shadow Copy Service likes to quiesce drive access, and so does Microsoft’s Antimalware tool. Oh, and let’s throw on BitLocker.
(One of the senior architects of our software actually said to a group of us bitching about BitLocker: “You know, they are all working off the of the premise that our ideas are actually worth stealing. Have you actually seen our code? I wouldn’t take it if it were given to me as a present. It’s that bad.”)
So now we are all doing the important work on Linux VMs, because nobody has time for that shit.
"SOCdriver" (socdriver)
03/29/2017 at 10:29, STARS: 0
Shadow copy and bitlocker only for those that need PCI compliance. All code should be stored in a VM instance that you are work from, if you are programming you get a Linux and Windows instance each. Store everything on the cloud, if its on your SSD drive and it dies too bad, everyone has 1TB of cloud storage. You had a PST file? Why? Your email already archives and you have 500 GB of storage. Lost it? Well you know the rules. There is not much bitching about computers at my work, I don’t let policy hurt productivity.
"KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs" (kusabisensei)
03/29/2017 at 11:13, STARS: 0
Fortunately, all my stuff is already on secure storage and backed up in multiple approved places.
But some tool decided that O365's Litigation Hold is the perfect way to do mailbox shadow copy in some a fool in need of a clue by four deletes something and then empties Deleted Items.
So when we hit the 100GB account quota? Kaboom. Microsoft’s suggested step? Delete their AD account and try again from scratch.