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(A) the actual purchase cost for memory, whether its $200 or $20 is essentially irrelevant when it comes to TCO. (B) In my experience corporate machines simply
by stephenr 3y ago
(A) the actual purchase cost for memory, whether its $200 or $20 is essentially irrelevant when it comes to TCO.
(B) In my experience corporate machines simply aren't upgraded. You get enough for the job when you order it. If you need more, you get a new machine and the old one is repurposed or retired if it's remaining usable life is short.
- benterix 3y agoYes, you are completely right. In my experience though, the machines do get upgrades if someone insists, and the tech department prefers the easiest possible way. I remember in a n org I worked a few years ago we got new laptops with SSDs instead of HDDs. Everybody was happy except the people who worked with a lot of data as the first SSDs were very small like 128 GB (still the amount of disk space you would get in an entry-level MBP 2019 I think). So we asked for an upgrade and they replaced our SSDs rather than replacing whole laptops. But I'm sure it's place-dependent.
- ghaff 3y ago>In my experience corporate machines simply aren't upgraded. Yeah. It would basically be insane for a company to nickel and dime laptop purchases and then pay an IT person to do bespoke upgrades. Like a lot of things that may seem sensible on a personal level where labor is cheap/free, they don't make sense when you're paying someone $50+ an hour to do them.