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scottalanmiller

@scottalanmiller said:

We've had good luck with HP commercial laptops. Many, many years from them. Often pushing towards a decade.

Yep, I've heard that from a number of people. I may give them another try soon, I think the ones I had were Newegg/TigerDirect specials.

That would do it. Those are not made by HP. I have a 2012 HP that is so good I still keeping thinking that it is brand new!

@coliver said:

Cool, sounds like a good environment to get into, good luck on the follow up interviews. Any Linux in there?

Didn't sound like it. but they have there own software developers so it's possible they do some linux stuff. Not sure. The location here is only 350-400 people.

coliver

@thecreativeone91 said:

@coliver said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

@coliver said:

Is it a Dell laptop from the early 2000s? Just had the same thing happen to one of ours. Would power cycle continuously until you pulled the battery. Even the hardware 10-sec switch wouldn't shut it down.

I like dell desktops for enterprise. but, the laptops seem to lack the quality of the bussiness models should have. HP seems to do better but I don't really like using two vendors for computers.

Odd. I've had the opposite experience. Dell desktops have been lackluster for me, while the HP ones I have are workhorses. Dell laptops are fantastic but the HP ones I inherited were sub-par and mostly broken when I got here, only 1-2 years old most of them.

I've had good luck with the HP workstation (hp z series) class stuff for desktops. but the mid/low end business hasn't been great. the Dell Laptops always break we just decided that was a cost of using laptops and limited laptops down to people that really needed them got and didn't worry about it.

This is what I'm trying to do... but our engineering department standardized on laptops/desktop replacements. So we are mostly laptops here.

scottalanmiller

@thecreativeone91 said:

I've had good luck with the HP workstation (hp z series) class stuff for desktops. but the mid/low end business hasn't been great. the Dell Laptops always break we just decided that was a cost of using laptops and limited laptops down to people that really needed them got and didn't worry about it.

I've dealt with less than a dozen Z series HPs, but every one was very good.

We've mostly used HP commercial, lower cost desktops and they've been outstanding. The D325, dx5150, dc5750 and dc5850 were our standards for over a decade and they were all amazing. Low cost and insanely rock solid. Of all of those, the d325 getting really hot was the only minor issue at all, and they never broke, just got hot.

scottalanmiller

And we used those all in leased fleets, so we were averaging over a decade of service from every machine! Really solid.

@scottalanmiller said:

d325 getting really hot was the only minor issue at all, and they never broke, just got hot.

Doesn't sound like an issue. just sounds like it had a P4. Intel just made a space heater.

MattSpeller

@thecreativeone91 yeah anything with a P4HT was just obnoxious. We had USFF desktops in a plant full of ceramic dust. They averaged 6mths before melting/popping caps/general badness

scottalanmiller

It is SO windy here!!

scottalanmiller

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

d325 getting really hot was the only minor issue at all, and they never broke, just got hot.

Doesn't sound like an issue. just sounds like it had a P4. Intel just made a space heater.

Nope, we didn't use Intel machines. It was an Athlon XP platform. The D320 was the same chassis with the P4.

scottalanmiller

There is laundry up and @dominica came up on the terrace and got towel whipped in the face!!

scottalanmiller

My MacBook Pro just slid across the table.

@scottalanmiller said:

My MacBook Pro just slid across the table.

Trying to get a new one?

Mine did all the time because the feet weren't grippy enough and aluminum is slick.

scottalanmiller

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

My MacBook Pro just slid across the table.

Trying to get a new one?

Mine did all the time because the feet weren't grippy enough and aluminum is slick.

ALmost did. @dominica had a big bottle of water and sat it directly next to my laptop - I moved it 30 seconds before it blew over and would have been all over my laptop keyboard!