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Do you feel bad when your work computer is better than your home computer?

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nope, my work PC is a 5,000 Dell Precision work station. I swiped it from a CAD contractor who was let go, that was 6 months ago 🙂 no way in hell am i ever going to spend that much for a home PC. Im happy as a clam using my 4 year old XPS laptop running vista, It does all i need and is still rock solid.
 
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No. I need more power at work and they're willing to spend thousands of dollars for it. I don't need that kind of power at home and I'm not willing to pay that much to get it.
 
The work PC provided are such garbage it's no comparison to my iMac/Air at home, even though they are already 2011 has-beens. I use SSDs on my comps so they just fly. Even using my sister's MBPro was a real drag as the HDD was constantly chewing away and made the laptop very sluggish.
 
It's not even close. Home is a Macbook Pro vs work is a Dell D620. But the other side is that craptastic Dell is mounted in a 2012 Charger vs. my POS Accord.
 
Yep, my work computer has 12 cores (Dual Xeon x5650) and 24gb of RAM. Also, Dual Dell 2407WFPs.
 
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I just built a i7 3770k / Z77 / 16gb RAM / 180GB Intel SSD / FirePro V5900 here at work for myself.

My computer at home is a i7 2600k / Z68 / 8GB RAM / 128gb Crucial SSD / GTX 460

Feels bad man:'(
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Your work computer isn't THAT much better than your home PC -- they're close enough that you'd be hard pressed to REALLY notice the difference.

With that being said, my new work laptop (i7, 8 GB of RAM, 256 GB SSD) is getting closer to my machine at home, but is still lacking. I'll take it though!
 
well I work at a research center so we have some powerful pcs around the place, but my work one is 'just' an imac 2011. Not bad but my sandy bridge rig kills it.
 
Not at all, but one of my first jobs was at a ISP working on the hardware and building new servers so i worked with quad or greater socket/CPU systems on a daily basis and i was 18 so obviosly didnt have anything better than that at home.
 
work is an i3 2120 w/ 4g mem running 32 bit w7, home is a i7 950 with 6g mem running 64-bit w7. not sad at all.

we just had our work systems swapped out, used to be some AMD of some flavor, don't even remember it it was a dual core, running XP
 
I was going to say Yes but then realised I lived happily with an A64 system up to 2010 (and I used Duo Core systems at work back then). Pretty sure I wouldn't give a damn either were my work systems replaced by an Ivybridge or Haswell. 😀
 
we just got upgraded to core i3's, but still running windows xp. I was so scared that my home pc died. building my i7 3770k this weekend!
 
You guys must work at smaller companies. When I did, the computers were at least up to date. I can't believe I'm a software developer for a fortune 500 company and the computers at work freeze every time I write and compile a line of code. We have dual core AMD machines that run windows xp 32 bit yet they have 8gb of ram. What ? A 32 bit os with 8gb of ram ? I explained this to IT yet they don't know what I'm talking about. You try developing a giant enterprise java project on these beasts. I swear half of my day is cleaning the pc and rebooting my WebSphere server to debug a few code files.

I feel like everytime I'm at work and I get productive the pc just decides to call it quits. They have all kinds of bloat and monitoring software on it its ridiculous. We are supposedly getting newer machines but not everyone is getting them. Oh pc running slow , clear cache and reboot. Which takes about total of 25 to 30 min.
 
Having a good computer at home used to be important to me. These days, as long as it does what I need, I'm happy. That's why I skipped upgrading in 2012.

Besides, we're still on XP at work so any extra computing power and RAM goes to waste.
 
I would guess that my work pc is probably worth about $150. Which is fine since I do most of my work through telnet and ssh.
 
OverVolt said:
No, computers are so fast these days anyway. It hasn't mattered for ~5 years.
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Not my work computers. They're so godawfully memory and IO starved, that I spend easily half an hour every day just waiting for it to..open a new tab in a browser....open an email....etc.

I wish my work computer was faster than my home computer, but it's not going to happen soon. Even my last machine was faster than both my current work computers - and was last updated with RAM, GPU and an SSD about three years ago, with the CPU and mainboard dating back to 2006.
 
sze5003 said:
You guys must work at smaller companies. When I did, the computers were at least up to date. I can't believe I'm a software developer for a fortune 500 company and the computers at work freeze every time I write and compile a line of code. We have dual core AMD machines that run windows xp 32 bit yet they have 8gb of ram. What ? A 32 bit os with 8gb of ram ? I explained this to IT yet they don't know what I'm talking about. You try developing a giant enterprise java project on these beasts. I swear half of my day is cleaning the pc and rebooting my WebSphere server to debug a few code files.

I feel like everytime I'm at work and I get productive the pc just decides to call it quits. They have all kinds of bloat and monitoring software on it its ridiculous. We are supposedly getting newer machines but not everyone is getting them. Oh pc running slow , clear cache and reboot. Which takes about total of 25 to 30 min.
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I've worked at two different Fortune 500 companies and all the developers had multiple powerful computers. I now work for a small company and its the same thing. A $2-3k computer is nothing when you look at how much time it saves developers. It sounds like you have some bad management at your company. Have you made the argument for why you need a better computer?
 
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You guys must work at smaller companies. When I did, the computers were at least up to date. I can't believe I'm a software developer for a fortune 500 company and the computers at work freeze every time I write and compile a line of code. We have dual core AMD machines that run windows xp 32 bit yet they have 8gb of ram. What ? A 32 bit os with 8gb of ram ? I explained this to IT yet they don't know what I'm talking about. You try developing a giant enterprise java project on these beasts. I swear half of my day is cleaning the pc and rebooting my WebSphere server to debug a few code files.

I feel like everytime I'm at work and I get productive the pc just decides to call it quits. They have all kinds of bloat and monitoring software on it its ridiculous. We are supposedly getting newer machines but not everyone is getting them. Oh pc running slow , clear cache and reboot. Which takes about total of 25 to 30 min.
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i work at a fortune 500 company with 20000 employes globally, IT budget gets cut every year

standard PC they give out now is a HP running an I5 2400s with 4 gigs of ram, win 7, with a 19 in montor running 1280x1024

laptops are similar standard is a 13, super portable is a 11

developers/cad people can get Z800 workstations or bigger laptops.

my laptop runs 1280 *800 and is a cort 2 duo
we went to win 7 ~6 months ago
 
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Anubis said:
with a 19 in montor running 1280x1024

developers/cad people can get Z800 workstations or bigger laptops.
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I sincerely hope that the developers get a higher-res monitor than that.

I remember "overclocking" my 14" CRT in HS, just so that I could get the extra screen res to write code with, from 800x600 to 1024x768i. (Yes, interlaced.)
 
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Maybe... if it'd ever happened.

Even if my work machine was better, $50 says that they'll load it with so much bloatware that it'll be a piece of shit.

My machine right now is running 60 processes. My laptop, even with all the drop protection/ acceleratometer, touchpad, and other things I don't disable is barely at 20-something. And I haven't said anything about the Monday morning virus scans...
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My work laptop is filled with shit. Part of it is my fault. I need to have some of the software for demo purposes for clients. My work laptop takes about 10 minutes to fully boot..
 
I've never had that problem.

My work puter is a steaming pile of dung. Even though its got 4 gigs, 120 gig SSD, and a decent Intel chip...its so stripped down that I can't find a thing I like about it.

Also since nothing is stored locally, it takes forever to do anything.
 
Define better?

My work computer is used for work, and my home computer is used for games. My home computer is infinitley better at games than my work computer, and since my work computer has 16 cores and 32gb RAM its much better at work.
 
Better is relative. Workplace has a central server room like this. All users have clients of 30 units IIRC.
If it ever crashes we are SOL. Thanks god it never happened.

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Compared to what I do at home with my system (see sig) and what is done at work are very different. I can do video editing/re-encoding, graphics etc, while workplace is just for data collecting/retrieving/analysis/training of personnel, etc.
 
My work laptop takes 5 minutes to boot vs 30? max. So yeah its not even close. Thankfully I am due a upgrade at work in may.
 
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