[freedomben]

when I worked for big corp, the reason we were told in engineering for getting $1,000 laptops was that it wasn't fair to accounting, HR, etc for us to have better machines. In the past people from these departments complained quite a bit.

The official reason (which was BS) was "to simplify IT's job by only having to support one model"

[butlerm]

Who cares what is "fair"? A decision like that should be based on an elementary productivity calculation. If not the inmates have taken over the asylum.