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>Why would I pay ~$10k over 5 years for something that's similar to the laptop I'm typing on which costed me $700 used? My guess is that this kind of financial
by wintermutestwin 5y ago
>Why would I pay ~$10k over 5 years for something that's similar to the laptop I'm typing on which costed me $700 used?
My guess is that this kind of financial inanity is being driven by accounting rules: CapX vs OpX, revenue recognition rules, etc...
- sorry_outta_gas 5y ago10k for five years isn't that bad when you factor in upgrade policy, support staff and scale it up to a company of 50-60k employees. just reducing some of the policy enforecemnet requirements with machines being virtual is probably worth the cost of two or three laptops no need to overthink VPNs with tricky clients vm's already on the right network/subnet/whatever, hell each machine can have nice software controller azure IAM roles it's a dream for cloud working