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Why do business/office job's laptops have to be so butt ugly?
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This is it right here.
Dell, Lenovo and HP business grade laptops aren't all slim beauties because of servicing and repairs. At the corporate/business/premium level they all offer next day onsite technician repairs so the parts all need to be easily and quickly replaced. Durability, ease of replacement and minimal downtime for the user are king in that space.
Webcam goes in that matebook? You'll likely need an entirely new top half. Keyboard or trackpad dies? you'll probably need a whole new bottom half. Doing the transplant in itself will likely be a pain in the ass as well.
I like using a chonky business laptop though. My ThinkPad L570 is my main workhorse for web browsing and chat - keeping that stuff airgapped away from the gaming desktop is useful more often than not.
I like the nice chunky industrial look to it.
Slimline business laptops do bother me though - I've seen too many fall apart because of the LCD hinge. Or literally fry themselves.
I like the nice chunky industrial look to it.
Slimline business laptops do bother me though - I've seen too many fall apart because of the LCD hinge. Or literally fry themselves.
Yeah gonna echo that Dell XPS look good. Some people have them in our office and I got mine just before they started giving those...
Didn't even do that when I would go to the depot. Laptop bad? Pull HDD caddy, pop in same model laptop, walk back out. 10 minute stop.
HDD died? Restore backup to HDD, pop in laptop, back up and running in like less than an hour.
Assume at some point the bad hardware gets RMA'd or whatever, probably in bulk.
Laptops are no longer the bulky ass things they were 15 years ago. Not that I agree but why do you need something sexy for work anyways? Function over form.
I mean, they are work laptops, they are (generally, if the IT deparment isn't made up by TeCh EnThUsIaStS) chosen for reliability and ease of repair ? Did you want some g4m3r aesthetic kind of computer with rgbs or some ultra thin hipster stuff that throttles when you look at it? Buy one for yourself and put some flaming wings stickers on the work pc if it really bothers you this much.
Just seems like a manufactured issue out of bored really.
Just seems like a manufactured issue out of bored really.
Is that not an xps? It looks nice.I work on a regular company with typical cubicles and layout. It's a regular white collar job in an office setting.
After many years of having a desk PC, I finally got a new laptop. The specs are top notch. The basics are:
- Intel i9
- 1TB SSD NVME
- Nvidia Quadro P1000
- 32GB of RAM
- Thunderbolt 3
But why do they have to be so butt ugly? Thick low quality plastic. Ugly fonts on the keyboard. Plastic here and plastic there. It's a Dell Precision (can't remember the model), but it's the typical boring office computer.
My personal computer is a Huawei Matebook 13, and that thing is a thing of beauty. Even if I'm not using it, I can really admire the craftsmanship of the device
But those Dell laptops that are in use all around the world in business environments are the most boring and ugly pieces of technology.
how big is your company? How many would you company need to buy to equip every employee with one? How much does your personal laptop cost vs your work one? What's the warranty service look like? Would you coworkers treat them with as much care as their personal laptops? What's the cost of repair? What about those leaving? Wouldn't a nicer laptop give them more reason not to return their work machine?Just for comparison, this is my Huawei laptop. Full aluminum body. Extremely thin bezels. Glass trackpad with a beautiful designed keyboard.
Why can't Dell design something like this for enterprise users?
All comes down to cost. No need to buy nicer looking laptops as it won't increase productivity, the ROI doesn't make sense.
Same ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I only wish they could've updated the screen to something closer to 3:2 already.
No, but I am telling you that when configured correctly, VDI is perfectly viable and better than say hardware at the end of a 5 year cycle.
This is my main laptop (HP Elitebook 8770W)
It's ugly as shit, heavy as hell, but it works and it works great.
Going on two years with it now and it still does everything that I need it to do.
Business don't need their computers to look good, they need them to work with the least amount of downtime as possible. Having an all in one thin computer will be a huge pain in the ass when the internal storage takes a shit and you can't just toss in a new hard drive, kick an image down to it and have the machine back up and running.
It's ugly as shit, heavy as hell, but it works and it works great.
Going on two years with it now and it still does everything that I need it to do.
Business don't need their computers to look good, they need them to work with the least amount of downtime as possible. Having an all in one thin computer will be a huge pain in the ass when the internal storage takes a shit and you can't just toss in a new hard drive, kick an image down to it and have the machine back up and running.
Citrix is a cancer to society. How people can work with it and not kill themselves is a mystery to me.
My first computer was a 1998 Thinkpad and it's amazing how the design has stayed almost the same for over twenty yearsI think the XPS line looks fine. Most Inspirons are ugly though.
I have a Thinkpad X230 and T490 and like both. At least they come in black I've disliked the look of the silver Apple notebooks since the Powerbook or whatever.
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But that's the thing. Those business laptops are not cheap. The model in the OP is a Dell Precision 5530, and it starts at $1500 USD with the lowest specs.
I hope they are leased or recycled through proper channels, because that's wasteful.
Then maybe they have decided you are more productive with a ugly laptop.
Every job I've worked in the last 25 years has provided me with a laptop, a dock, and a monitor. It shouldnt come as a surprise that they don't care how "beautiful" the laptop is when most people aren't using it in that mode.
but they're reliable and will outlast prettier computers that throttle and break at the hinges. you save money over time
That's really a sign of good design. I've always liked thinkpads, they have a certain no nonsense appeal.
I love mine.
That laptop looks fine OP. You should see some of the stuff I've worked with over the years.
Yeah it's not super luxurious, but businesses care more about performance than aesthetics.
It's like getting a job driving a forklift and complaining it doesn't have nice rims or a spoiler.
Edit: doesn't help that you basically have to throw away a lot of the nicer consumer laptops if they break.
Dell will literally come to you and fix it on the spot if they can figure out what's wrong with it over the phone. Microsoft will just throw away a Surface Pro if something breaks and hands you a new one. Which is a nightmare if your users aren't backing up their data like they're supposed to.
Yeah it's not super luxurious, but businesses care more about performance than aesthetics.
It's like getting a job driving a forklift and complaining it doesn't have nice rims or a spoiler.
Edit: doesn't help that you basically have to throw away a lot of the nicer consumer laptops if they break.
Dell will literally come to you and fix it on the spot if they can figure out what's wrong with it over the phone. Microsoft will just throw away a Surface Pro if something breaks and hands you a new one. Which is a nightmare if your users aren't backing up their data like they're supposed to.
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I dont really understand the complaint the lap top is a tool. I have never looked at my wrenches and thought "Ya they do the job but I wish they were sexier looking"
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I have that same laptop as the OP. It's trash. I've had the usb C port replaced twice. It's constantly overheating and I can't leave it unplugged over night or it completely dies. My other coworkers laptop started smoking on Friday right before we left.