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Sometimes an employer is forced to go to a lowest cost option that meets requirements, so you want to come up with some contrived set of reasonable-sounding req
by cbhl 11y ago
Sometimes an employer is forced to go to a lowest cost option that meets requirements, so you want to come up with some contrived set of reasonable-sounding requirements that actually translate in practice to buying a higher-end machine.
It used to be that this requirement was "power windows" on a car rental, which only showed up on cars with all the bells and whistles.
- Someone1234 11y agoThe closest thing to "power windows" would likely be "needs an SSD." Since they don't normally put SSDs into their cheapest i3 machines, only the i5s with the 1080p displays (or better). Also an SSD is a valid requirement if you actually need to get stuff done, in particular development/SysAdmin-like stuff.
- PaulHoule 11y agoIf you are running Windows it makes a huge difference to have an SSD and even if what you are doing is writing Word documents and sending emails and stuff like that the difference is night and day. I have an old netbook with a single core Atom processor and an SSD that I put in to make it shockproof and it feels incredibly fast compared to an i7 machine I have that seems to take 15 minutes to completely boot.
- masklinn 11y ago> If you are running Windows it makes a huge difference to have an SSD SSDs make a huge difference on pretty much any system which can't live solely in RAM, no matter the OS.
- PaulHoule 11y agoI think it is worse on Windows because Windows uses locking very heavily -- i.e. Windows tries harder to protect system integrity than Unix does, even if that means giving up and showing the blue screen.
- grkvlt 11y agoSo, you want to defraud your employer? Why not just be straight-up and give the actual requirements, and then you know you'll be happy with whatever is purchased, since it'll meet them?