[yamtaddle]

> Handing out multi-core full-blown laptops to non-technical roles that could just as easily get by with a Chromebook?

I have, over and over, seen companies burn the cost of a decent laptop at a rate between one per quarter and one per month per employee because they try to cheap out and the shitware they force on their workers runs like crap on anything that's not fairly powerful, wasting hours per week per employee.

Whole divisions at some larger companies lose incredible amounts of money every year over reluctance to give the mere worker-drones nice hardware.

[seanmcdirmid]

My non-technical wife is always pegging her corporate computer running Adobe Creative Suite. I joke with her that she can use it as a heater in winter. Me? The programmer...I barely ever hear my fan.

[phist_mcgee]

I hope she gives the computer a kiss first.

[seanmcdirmid]

Hopefully my comment was understood as pegging all her laptop CPU cores at 100%.

[midoridensha]

It sounds like the problem isn't the hardware, it's the shitty, bloated software.