[KellyCriterion]

Im always shocked how much good IT equipment is shoved into the trashbin: At a lot of companies I could make a great deal - either for using it on my own or selling it on Ebay later on.

Big Corporations offen trash IT equipment thats only 3 - 4 years old. And there is no recycling etc. Very sad.

[toast0]

Big corporations tend to send old hardware through the surplus marketplace. There's lots of 3-4 year old corporate computers for sale. Often, the company leases the computers and then the lessor will sell them when they're returned.

[lamontcg]

I got a pretty nice 120Hz ultrawide dell for cheap at one of those surplus shops awhile back.

[Lalabadie]

Apple themselves make pretty good business leasing their own products that way.

[bradlys]

Meanwhile I’m at faang and they’re reusing 7 year old monitors still. Still getting equipment from pre-covid era.

Where are these luxurious big corporations that give their employees nice new equipment? :(

[toast0]

As long as it's working (and not gross), why do you need a new monitor? My current monitor is a 2010 model, I think I got it around 2013. I don't know what a new monitor would do for me, other than have a worse aspect ratio, cause Dell stopped making 30" 16:10 monitors.

[bradlys]

In theory, yes. However a lot of these monitors are still 2560x1440 and are 30”+. The ppi is quite low. I’m looking for 4k and something that looks similar enough to the M4 MBP I’m working on. A lot of these just don’t look good as they used to.

[zozbot234]

1440p is good enough that you aren't going to see individual pixels - just sit far back enough from the screen and use reasonable font hinting (Mac users are sadly out of luck here, but even then 2160p/4K is overkill).

[toast0]

Probably your new corporate monitor is also going to have relatively low ppi though. The problem isn't really the age then.

[KellyCriterion]

What Im doing wrong? My 24" with 1920x1200 from 2010 is doing quite fine until today?