Man, must be nice to be a VP at my company

[new2AMD]

Im no VP and my company just bought me a:

Dell Precision M60
2.1 centrino
1gb DDR
60gb 7200rpm
8x DVD+RW
15.4" wuxga+
nVidia go 1000
docking station hooked into my dell 20" lcd

list price of 4500 but we get an educational discount

not that heavy either, maybe 7lbs

 

[toekramp]

Originally posted by: Jehovah

Originally posted by: toekramp
if you represent the company i see no reason for you not to have the biggest and the best

I work at a pretty well known company, and we standardize on Dell computers. With few exceptions, everyone who gets a laptop gets a choice of two, and there is only one desktop choice.

hypocrite

\Hyp"o*crite\, n. [F., fr. L. hypocrita, Gr. ? one who plays a part on the stage, a dissembler, feigner. See Hypocrisy.] One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety.

wtf is he 'falsifying'

 

[Viper GTS]

Nobody that high up in my company knows enough to want a really expensive PC. They're all satisfied with their $2K tablets.

$60K SUV's are their company toys of choice.

Viper GTS

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

Didn't HardOCP just review a monster like that recently?

 

[Qwest]

did his/her kid customize it on the dell site? wow:Q

 

[CVSiN]

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: jagec
How much do you want to bet they DON'T game, but just wanted "the best of the best"?

then I sure as hell would not have bought a dell for that price..
Fragbook (like mine) Alienware or Hypersonic all superior laptops in that price range.. (and weight)

 

[Aharami]

dayum! thats one hell of a laptop

 

[loup garou]

I guarantee he went to dell, picked the most expensive laptop and maxed everything out just to have a "top of the line" laptop. Or his kid did so he can play HL2 on it.

 

[Argo]

I have a pretty similar laptop, except it's IBM (read better ) and Centrino... My company actually tried to give me a second laptop, but I told them I already had one.

 

[Scarpozzi]

They give me my choice of Dell laptop every 2 years. I'm still lugging around my C840 from 2 years ago. It's still fast, but HEAVY. I'm sure that guy has to deal with it too.

 

[MrChad]

Lugging around a desktop-replacement laptop absolutely sucks.

<--- Company gave me a loaded Inspiron 5150 when I started.

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

Holy crap....

Radeon 9800 mobility with 256MB ram

I can see the huge increase in this exec's productivity already!

 

[Kelemvor]

Heh even our CEOs can't order special laptops here. We too use Dell but there is a Standard model and an Exec model. It Exec modl is just smaller and more portable but has everything external (CD, Floppy, etc) so many of them want the Standard ones anyway. And they are all just Pentium M 1.4s with 512 ram, DVD-Rom/CD-RW, 30gig, etc. Nothing fancy.

 

[TMPadmin]

Those XPS's don't have docking stations. Give him a week of plugging in all his stuff and he'll be bitching to you.

 

[scauffiel]

What I just ordered
from HP: 3.4GHz, 1.5GB Ram, 128MB Video, 100GB HD, 17" WXGA+ display, DVD+RW... ahhhh, laptop goodness...

Of course it's on backorder and "end of line", and may be supplanted by the new 9600... Luckily I don't need it right now...

S.

 

[SZLiao214]

My god, could never imagine having a notebook 2 inches thick! Ive seen one or two in class and those things are massive!

 

[maziwanka]

eh. what do you expect.

while i was an undergraduate my boss had to configure the two new laptops that belonged to the president of the school and his wife. i dont remember the exact config, but it was definitely top of the line at the time.

 

[Gothgar]

I'd think the 6 figure income would be the best part of being a VP...

 

[MadPeriot]

All the IS Analyst (me being one of them) at my company, we all get a IBM T41 thinkpad for home use. I think this is one of the best laptops out there in the market.

 

[Gooberlx2]

I have stuff that I buy for home shipped to where I work all the time. Maybe it's just the same thing here?
<---- Naive and overly trusting.

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: ArmchairAthlete
Holy crap....

Radeon 9800 mobility with 256MB ram

I can see the huge increase in this exec's productivity already!

Hell yeah.

4 HD porn windows makes you more productive!

So that for a laptop. Too dam big. I'd rather get a desktop and a big ass screen, like my 23" LCD and a nice portable laptop sub 4lbs.

He is VP so he must be doing something half decent right? Or 'have' done?!

Koing

 

[dquan97]

that's faster than 99% of our desktop machines here

 

[SZLiao214]

Got to love that graphics card for e-mail.

 

[JulesMaximus]

The CEO at my company drives a brand new Bentley Continental GT.

 

[rh71]

<-- still waiting impatiently to get his T42 :|