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by SomeCallMeTim 3625 days ago
>Developers with tech jobs often have high end machines provided to them.

Developers with tech jobs should also be able to afford high end machines.

It's totally worth it, if your employer will allow you to work on your personal machine at all.
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krisdol 3625 days ago
Those tech companies should also provide high end machines to developers. I'm glad the last two places I've worked provided high end MacBook pros but also allow devs to use their own machines so inevitably there are a couple of Linux and Windows folks.

Interesting that for me it was the startups that provided good machines while the enterprises provided 4 years old lenovo laptops with not so good batteries not the specs needed to use a VM effectively

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vincnetas 3624 days ago
Just got back from paternaty leave and got new MacBook pro. Not sure if got lucky or this will be common practice. I'm from the IBM corporation. So one should not generalize ;) P.S. I guess only people who get crappy HW complain and this creates the ilussion that all corporations give crappy HW.
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SomeCallMeTim 3625 days ago
>enterprises

Yeah, well, I'll just add that to my (very long) list of reasons never to work for enterprise companies.

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