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What's the problem with "4 yr old laptops"? My colleagues and I use Teams on computers 1-5 years old and haven't heard about any issues.

by rwalle 4y ago

cpuguy83 4y ago
I think it's a dig at how resource hungry Teams is.
top_sigrid 4y ago
Maybe that works well on Windows machines, on the Mac at least on the Intel-era some year-old Macs MS Teams is one of the most horrible, buggy, resource hungry, non-working app that one could imagine.
- bitwize 4y ago
  As soon as the M1 dropped, Apple just stopped giving a shit about Intel Macs. The whole OS is slow, janky, and appears to have driver bugs on Intel.
  - top_sigrid 4y ago
    Teams was horrible before that. What you consider is not a reason for Teams being utterly crap on at least the Intel Macs - which I was talking of only as I have no Apple Silicon Mac to compare to.
- yamtaddle 4y ago
  It's so bad it makes Slack look lightweight. Which is a real accomplishment.
  - top_sigrid 4y ago
    Actually true and a good way to put it
    - ricktdotorg 4y ago
      the best way to use Slack on any desktop/computer OS is: 1) login to Slack in a chrome browser tab and then --> Create Shortcut 2) uninstall Slack app
creshal 4y ago
"4 year old laptop" can mean anything from "8 cores, 64 GB RAM, dedicated GPU" to "720p display, 4GB RAM, dual-core". If Github for whatever reason punished its employees with the latter, well. Teams is not the world's most optimized Electron app.
- dgellow 4y ago
  720p, 4GB in 2019?
  - betaby 4y ago
    Yes. Most of the laptops at my current jobs were 720p till 2023. I work for a huge enterprise (over 5k employees).
    - dgellow 4y ago
      Damn, that sucks. What model are they?
      - betaby 4y ago
        Dell Latitude, various models. Even today some Latitude models are 1366X768
      - creshal 4y ago
        Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc. all offer current-gen "business" notebooks with 720p or 768p screens, to placate the penny pinching soulless big corporations.
bibinou 4y ago
it's a reference to the previous para: > Effective immediately, we will be moving laptop refreshes from three years to four years.
ecf 4y ago
> Teams on computers 1-5 years old and haven't heard about any issues. My 2019 Intel MacBook would sound like a jet engine taking off when opening IntelliJ. Apple’s M2? Doesn’t even get hot doing a full index and battery lasts 4-5x as long. The quality of life using an Apple Silicone laptop while traveling is so much better. Frankly, it’s an embarrassment for Intel.
- vel0city 4y ago
  Silicone is a polymer of siloxane which makes rubber-like substance such as silicone oil, silicone grease, or silicone caulk. Silicon is an element often used in semiconductor manufacturing. Neither Apple or Intel manufacture silicone in any major quantities.

What's the problem with "4 yr old laptops"? My colleagues and I use Teams on computers 1-5 years old and haven't heard about any issues.

by rwalle 4y ago

What's the problem with "4 yr old laptops"? My colleagues and I use Teams on computers 1-5 years old and haven't heard about any issues.

cpuguy83 4y ago

I think it's a dig at how resource hungry Teams is.

top_sigrid 4y ago

Maybe that works well on Windows machines, on the Mac at least on the Intel-era some year-old Macs MS Teams is one of the most horrible, buggy, resource hungry, non-working app that one could imagine.

bitwize 4y ago
As soon as the M1 dropped, Apple just stopped giving a shit about Intel Macs. The whole OS is slow, janky, and appears to have driver bugs on Intel.
- top_sigrid 4y ago
  Teams was horrible before that. What you consider is not a reason for Teams being utterly crap on at least the Intel Macs - which I was talking of only as I have no Apple Silicon Mac to compare to.
yamtaddle 4y ago
It's so bad it makes Slack look lightweight. Which is a real accomplishment.
- top_sigrid 4y ago
  Actually true and a good way to put it
  - ricktdotorg 4y ago
    the best way to use Slack on any desktop/computer OS is: 1) login to Slack in a chrome browser tab and then --> Create Shortcut 2) uninstall Slack app

creshal 4y ago

"4 year old laptop" can mean anything from "8 cores, 64 GB RAM, dedicated GPU" to "720p display, 4GB RAM, dual-core". If Github for whatever reason punished its employees with the latter, well. Teams is not the world's most optimized Electron app.

dgellow 4y ago
720p, 4GB in 2019?
- betaby 4y ago
  Yes. Most of the laptops at my current jobs were 720p till 2023. I work for a huge enterprise (over 5k employees).
  - dgellow 4y ago
    Damn, that sucks. What model are they?
    - betaby 4y ago
      Dell Latitude, various models. Even today some Latitude models are 1366X768
    - creshal 4y ago
      Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc. all offer current-gen "business" notebooks with 720p or 768p screens, to placate the penny pinching soulless big corporations.

bibinou 4y ago

it's a reference to the previous para: > Effective immediately, we will be moving laptop refreshes from three years to four years.

ecf 4y ago

> Teams on computers 1-5 years old and haven't heard about any issues. My 2019 Intel MacBook would sound like a jet engine taking off when opening IntelliJ. Apple’s M2? Doesn’t even get hot doing a full index and battery lasts 4-5x as long. The quality of life using an Apple Silicone laptop while traveling is so much better. Frankly, it’s an embarrassment for Intel.

vel0city 4y ago
Silicone is a polymer of siloxane which makes rubber-like substance such as silicone oil, silicone grease, or silicone caulk. Silicon is an element often used in semiconductor manufacturing. Neither Apple or Intel manufacture silicone in any major quantities.