Ask HN: What is your workdesk setup at company? Dedicated Desktop/Laptop/? or

Re:Ask HN: What is your workdesk setup at company? Dedicated... by inertiatic on Monday February 03, 2020 @04:06AM (#22222587)

Last company I worked at (~500 employees), almost 4 years ago, I was handed a desktop computer with the current top of the line i7, 32 gigs of RAM, 512 GB SSD and an HDD. No dedicated GPU but didn't do any GPU work so it didn't matter. A single QHD 32" monitor was provided. You could potentially request a second one, but in practice no one in my team asked for a second one.

Right now, at the smaller startup I'm working for, I'm using a Dell XPS 13. What was at the time the top CPU configuration but only 16 gigs of RAM. An additional Full HD monitor was provided but you could easily ask for more.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your workdesk setup at company? Dedicated... by jitendrac on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @04:35AM (#22233816)

Thanks for info, can you share how your computers were networked? Did you work on remote deployed code or just a local copy of it?

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Re:Ask HN: What is your workdesk setup at company? Dedicated... by inertiatic on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @10:54AM (#22247862)

Desktop plugged into Ethernet, no further idea. My laptop connects to a secured wifi when I'm not working remotely now.

Both mentioned jobs have workflows that involve bringing up potentially most of the services being deployed in production locally.

People at my last job were starting to ask for 64 gigs of RAM to work with a full blown IDE as well as to deal with running multiple Java apps locally.

My current coworkers mostly work with light editors, and bring up smaller, containerized apps.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your workdesk setup at company? Dedicated... by jitendrac on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @02:00PM (#22249954)

Thanks for sharing

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