[mnkypete]

You have an 8core laptop with 32gig RAM for $700? That's not super common though, I think usually you'd spend more like $2500-$3000k for it. Count in the reduced maintenance and hardware support + having your whole stuff in one place.. Might make sense if you are not super low on money

[betaby]

You still have access that cloud Windows from ... laptop. So one have to pay for laptop + that cloud instance.

[formerly_proven]

The idea is probably that employees / contractors use their own hardware to access this. Someone likely already figured out how to fill out the Excel spreadsheets to make this secure.

[aksss]

I think you can get the Dell XPS 13 , 32GB RAM, 11th gen i7 for about $2100 or sometimes less, but yeah. Definitely not seen these specs for $700.

[mike3498234]

That Azure VM only has 4 cores, not 8 cores. 1 vCPU = 1 hyper-thread (not a physical core). 4 cores * 2 threads = 8 vCPU. Yes it's easy to get a used quad core laptop with 32G for $700

[donmcronald]

> You have an 8core laptop with 32gig RAM for $700?

Like I said, it's used, so yes. I think the new cost is right in your $2500-$3000 range for a new version.

[pb82]

Not quite 700$ but I recently bought a Laptop with a Ryzen 5700u (8 cores, 16 threads) and upgraded the RAM to 40Gb. Easily under 1000$ brand new.

[MonaroVXR]

So your RAM runs on Single channel mode. makingbl it's "speed" worse.

[pb82]

From what I understand it's still dual channel for the first 8Gb, no? Not ideal but if I ever feel the need I could get another 32Gb stick and make it dual channel.