My company switched from Lenovo to Toshiba... what does that mean?
Now we're switching to Dell
Imagine getting a new job. You come into the office on the first day. Instead of handing you a laptop, they just give you a chair in the break room. You'll be working off a linux distro that's been installed into the door of a smart fridge.
But you're not allowed to sit directly in front of it. Don't block the fridge
Nah, you will be allowed to sit in front. Part of your job will be cleaning out the fridge, keeping track of how long items have been there, and storing and retrieving items for people. You'll basically be a fridge librarian.
My company just switched from Lenovo to Dell and gets rid of 20% of the workforce
An acer: your boss is gonna try and f*ck you
Joke's on you, I have a trackpoint on my Dell Latitude
So what if all the desks are set up with thin or zero clients.
Layoffs will be a regular occurrence. Think you're safe because you have a lot of seniority? My wife was laid off by Chase just a couple weeks before her 20 year anniversary. Funnily enough, they had just switched everyone to thin clients a year or two before.
It was a sign they were trying to cut long term costs over user convenience long term when they switched to thing clients. Budget cuts are never a good sign in business that are "supposed" to be growing
Lol I got a layoff notice last Thursday at another financial institute. Our whole environment is Lenovo. I noticed at the end of last year that 2025s upcoming EOL refresh was going to be all thin laptop conversions.
But don't worry guys, I can apply for 10 dollars less an hour to the new contractor they are bring on to delay the inevitable.
Your boss is constantly micromanaging you, but you can't get anything done because thin clients suck.
Haha, I set up a few hundred for a transition happening at a college years ago. They also got a few laptops that were thin clients. For a full time machine id assume it would be problematic. But when it's constantly rotating users like that, it makes management pretty simple / cheaper long term. I assume they took some of the market away from products like deepfreeze. (Not saying it's a better solution than deepfreeze, just that they likely stole some of the users)
I've heard Wyse has gone downhill since Dell bought it though, not sure if true.
My last tech job gave me a Microsoft Surface, which possibly explains why I was hired with the promise that things would be really busy, barely did anything for a year, and then got let go because there just wasn't enough work to justify retaining my position.
I can second this too, 8 months same exact thing
Every month the CEO rolls a D100, if it's a 100 you're fired.
We need to expand the meme!
What about a Microsoft Surface?
From a sample size of one other commenter, you will be employed for 1 year until they can’t find enough for you to do and have to let you go.
HP laptop: your company has no idea what it's doing for it's entire technology department
Accurate
My last 3 jobs all used HP... No major issues.
Worst thing that happened with my HP work laptop is somebody knocked my water over onto it and it died. That was 2 hours after I got it and spend 2 hours installing everything onto it.
Boot up from external device and watch it wipe non-windows boot entries (yes, even with secure boot off) and then not automatically find any other EFI files so you have to navigate to them manually. Oh, and the only way to add them back is efibootmgr tool, or if you want GUI, Bootice in Hiren's boot (yes that's still a thing).
At least that was experience with HP 255 G7.As for another one, a mini PC, the UEFI setup seems to have limited HID driver support. Basic cheap keyboard seems to be a must. DO NOT DISABLE SECURE BOOT IF JUST THE MOUSE WORKS!!!!! Upon reboot, it will ask you to confirm disabling secure boot by TYPING in something. Every time. Even if you reset UEFI with the motherboard pins.
At least that was experience with HP ProDesk 400 G3 mini.But hey, I also had issues with Dell, I think Optiplex 7020. It was unable to boot via internal DVD drive. I tried 2 of them, both fared the same, no problem reading and burning discs in OS. I tried a USB DVD drive, that magically worked. What?
We got lenovo's in my last job. I did support software tools for internal usage. Pay was low but work was not overbearing and I could have spent my whole life there. Current job, I got a MinisForum mini PC, what does that mean?
You will never receive any acknowledgement or raises.
What if you get two HP Pavillion Desktops. One for home and one for the office?
You are getting paid for 40hrs of work per week, but expected to put in 80hrs
Haha.
I know this was a joke but I like to shout out that my employers are amazing.
I’m a software developer for a small company, less than 10 employees. Recently we got given a pay rise and a reduction in hours at the same time. They started the business to have a good life, not to work their employees to death.
We get so much support when needed and there is never an issue if you’re sick or just need a mental health day. We don’t get targets and the work just gets done. We are fair with our clients and they come back for repeat work and recommend us.
HP laptop: please remember to log out of
yourthe laptop in case someone else needs to use it.Edit: Management took offence at the language of the previous memo.
Always "a" dildo, or "the" dildo, never "your" dildo...
What if it is an IBM ThinkPad.
Bonus security because you're clearly developing for legacy code.
I was able to choose my own Lenovo. Twice. 14+ years at the same place.
Oh, hey, 15+ and on my second Lenovo here too 👋
Albeit I had a desktop at first. Don't remember which brand.
Seems like you chose wisely! I kind of want you to choose a dell for science next time, but it would definitely be against your best interests according to the laws of physics that mysteriously underly this phenomenon.
The laws of thermal- and accoustic physics are surely warped within Dell hardware. Otherwise, I have no explanation why it acts so much worse than other laptops with similar specs.
I have a ThinkPad and this checks out
Panasonic Toughbook: You're gone get wet and dirty.
Op got a porn studio job.
I've seen them using them at In n out for the drive thru.
Wet and dirty indeed
Thoughtbook? is that like an offbrand ThinkPad?
Thoughts and prayers book is a whole other technology with paper and ink and shit.
Promise?
Lenovo replaced with Dell when the startup I work at was purchased by a multinational a year and a half ago. They’re closing our office down and moving operations out of state in June.
You cash out?
I got a decent windfall when my stock vested instantly, but I don't think I'm going to make it to the final payout of my retention bonus. As soon as annual bonus hits in March, I'm donion rings.
Siemens PG: forget about making a resume ever again.
Had to look it up, the version with a handle killed me
It's actually pretty useful when you have to move around with it in your workplace. Tbh, I am so used to the handle that I'd miss it if my next computer didn't have it.
I had an old cf-27 toughbook with a handle. Handles on laptops are wicked handy!
Now i wanna make this my daily driver
Finally! Something I can relate to, I had one of these in my last workplace. Was older than my manager and it was only used to fix those 20 year old machines we had lying around.
To anyone wondering, this is a industrial PC which is meant to withstand the hardest of environments. The handle is a boon when you have to run around the factory and your hands are full.
Union.
HP but it switches with Dell every 5 years.
My peers have been there 20+ years. No one's dumb enough to get fired. I only got this job because someone retired.
The people are awesome. I hope to God I can work here another decade.
I've had so many Dell Laptops...
Chromebook?
Did they ask you to make a western union transfer in order to secure your application?
I'm not getting that money back, am I?
They will also need a $500 deposit to ship you the chromebook, refundable after three months.
Either skeezy AF scam, or Google.
Or, believe it or not, both.
Or teacher
You're selling meth
The good ending.
Can confirm. Currently on year eight, always with Lenovo.
Year 12. Started issuing Microsoft Surfaces at some point. I got an exception made for me.
Sadly Thinkpads no longer are what they used to be. I got the X1 Extreme Gen 5 couple of years back and have had all kinds of problems with it. Blue screens, problem with fans sometimes getting stuck at 100%, constant problems connecting to the dock, not to mention bad battery life... My coworker had to get a warranty replacement when the usb-c port stopped working without any apparent reason only after a month of use. And other coworkers with newer models are also reporting issues.
They may not be as good as they used to be but my T14 is so much nicer to type on than anyone else's laptop.
It's a damn shame too. I love my T530 so I got a T460 and it is so shite. Although I did get unlucky with a cracked mobo but still. Even the x260 I have feels slower than my 530
What OS do you run. My last three x1 carbons have not had much of an issue running Linux.
I can tell you’re not an Arch user.
You get better reliability from Apple than ThinkPads now. At way more money and with restrictions on what operating systems you can use.
creepily accurate in my experience.
I don't even work in tech and that was my first thought.
What about a Framework laptop?
Edit: or a desktop that you can remote into from your personal machine if you want to work outside the office?
Adding to OP:
Framework: You are self-employed.
It ain't much but it's honest work, the honestest.
Wouldn't it either be a really new start up or a non profit foss group? Talking about framework
In my friend's case, it's a web development company that's been around for at least a decade. His previous machine at the same company was a Dell, I think.
Just got a framework 13. Can't imagine going back to anything else right now.
Yes, having a work desktop (or a virtual insurance somewhere) is great.
Especially if you need to run some intensive jobs.
Special rule:
Thinkpad but with 1600x900 resolution on the 24" screen and full hd on a 22" screen in the office.
That buys you only around 2 years from personal experience.
That job ain't right.
I would instinctively start to strangle anyone who gives me a 900p screen that isn't a CRT.
900p on an any LCD monitor at any point in history was always very wrong, something that should not be. Even 1080p is torture for office-ish work.
It was crappy monitors too so everyone was dealing with it differently like cardboard cutouts against incoming light or special glasses etc.
I worked in the office only 1 day per week but even that was too much. Christ.
@reallykindasorta didn't they stop making trackpoint on ThinkPads?
I see some news about it but my work just upgraded ours recently and they still have it! Must be the version right after. RIP trackpoint.
Didn't they just announce discontinuing the zipple?
No, they announced one model is now available for those people who grumble about the nupple
Only a specific product line.
:( RIP if so. My work recently upgraded to a newer thinkpad and they still have it. I don’t think I’ve ever reached for it though.
I work on a GPD Win Max 2, so what does that mean? 😃
...probably gonna get fired when my employer catches me playing Cyberpunk.
I had a Thinkpad L390 Yoga before. Constant overheating, the logo sticker just came off one day and stuck to my hand and the battery barely lasted through a meeting. Absolute garbage, never again. The Thinkpad brand is dead to me.
Now I have eight cores, 64GB RAM, a GPU with raytracing support and a 2K IPS display...all in 10 inches with 8-10 hours of battery life. GPD is insane and those specs would cost me an arm and a leg if I stuck with
IBMbrainfart, Lenovo of course.What about a Dell AIO?
