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Do you have a workstation in each spot to go work on? Or do you work specifically on your laptop? I find that even with a company-issued laptop, as awesome as

by Morgawr 12y ago

Do you have a workstation in each spot to go work on? Or do you work specifically on your laptop? I find that even with a company-issued laptop, as awesome as it is, it can't compare to a 2-3 monitors workstation if I really need to work on something complex that requires multiple applications up next to each other.

bane 12y ago
Everybody, top-to-bottom is issued a laptop. We get a choice from about a half dozen models of Dells and a couple Macs. About 1/3 of the company is transitioning to using Macs. The sales/BD guys tend to get the lighter machines, the MB Airs, that sort of thing, while the designers/writers tend to go for bigger screens. Engineers tend to go for RAM and SSDs or max out on disk space depending. I think there are a few folks who've asked for desktops simply because they don't want to carry something around and they know they'll never move, it's mostly secretaries. We're all also given very nice laptop bags to carry our stuff around in. My office, the team room and the guest cube all have monitors we can plug into. All my monitors at home are occupied at the moment. They standardized on Dells until last year when they started offering Macs. This means that every possible workplace is full of standardized Dell Docs. So if you have a Dell, you just plop it in and you're wired up to network, monitor, power, keyboard, mouse etc. It's a bit more fuss with the Macs and all the display port dongles and power bricks, but on the flip side, the machines themselves are physically lighter, thinner and generally nicer to use on their own than the Dells. For example, if I forget my mouse (I use a rMBP) it's not a big deal since the trackpad is very good, but my Dell using colleagues are kind of SOL since the trackpad works so poorly. Also the equivalent Dell to my rMBP (15") weighs something like 11 pounds and is about 3 times as thick. In general the philosophy seems to be to offer workplace flexibility while making each choice as good as possible.

by Morgawr 12y ago

bane 12y ago

Everybody, top-to-bottom is issued a laptop. We get a choice from about a half dozen models of Dells and a couple Macs. About 1/3 of the company is transitioning to using Macs. The sales/BD guys tend to get the lighter machines, the MB Airs, that sort of thing, while the designers/writers tend to go for bigger screens. Engineers tend to go for RAM and SSDs or max out on disk space depending. I think there are a few folks who've asked for desktops simply because they don't want to carry something around and they know they'll never move, it's mostly secretaries. We're all also given very nice laptop bags to carry our stuff around in. My office, the team room and the guest cube all have monitors we can plug into. All my monitors at home are occupied at the moment. They standardized on Dells until last year when they started offering Macs. This means that every possible workplace is full of standardized Dell Docs. So if you have a Dell, you just plop it in and you're wired up to network, monitor, power, keyboard, mouse etc. It's a bit more fuss with the Macs and all the display port dongles and power bricks, but on the flip side, the machines themselves are physically lighter, thinner and generally nicer to use on their own than the Dells. For example, if I forget my mouse (I use a rMBP) it's not a big deal since the trackpad is very good, but my Dell using colleagues are kind of SOL since the trackpad works so poorly. Also the equivalent Dell to my rMBP (15") weighs something like 11 pounds and is about 3 times as thick. In general the philosophy seems to be to offer workplace flexibility while making each choice as good as possible.