Good employers already give you your own laptop and might offer to give you a phone. But good employers are few and far between, especially in recession-esque p

Good employers already give you your own laptop and might offer to give you a phone. But good employers are few and far between, especially in recession-esque periods where everyone that doesn't have an extremely resilient IT staff (or isn't a public company) will have bean counters cutting costs in many areas, either downsizing new laptop purchases (making doing work harder) or cutting them all-together.