My company is working on upgrading all of us to that config. Currently we mostly use the 2013 13", and people get upgraded when that one burns out. I'm debating

My company is working on upgrading all of us to that config. Currently we mostly use the 2013 13", and people get upgraded when that one burns out. I'm debating asking for a halfway trade, getting a nice Thinkpad X1 and being able to use my favorite linux tools on it. I'm in the US, but I've been in a similar position to you; my last job gave me a tower with 8GB of ram and a Core 2 Duo running Windows 7 32-bit. Utterly useless. I had to sneak Ubuntu onto it when nobody was looking. They couldn't even tell the difference. I ended up having the last laugh when every computer in the office got wiped because somebody decided running the mail server on our ActiveDirectory server was a good idea, and also thought that leaving ports open on the mail server was a good idea.