Not at any company Iāve worked recently but Iāve worked at a company where people would throw their laptop against a brick wall trying to break it early. Hardware support would painstakingly replace every broken part ā¦ and then bill each part back to the offending department because physical abuse isnāt covered under warranty.
It would probably surprise no one to learn that itās more expensive to repair a laptop that way than to just replace it. But after the first time or two, word got around and people stopped. More for the futility than the embarrassment, as I understand it.
Talk to me when you have roll-up screens like in that terrible show Earth: Final Conflict or augmented reality contacts like in Vernor Vingeās novel Rainbows End.
Who really wants ultra thin laptops? Iād rather have something reasonably lightweight that had a great track pad and keyboard, decent graphics, and quiet cooling.
Sort of like a MacBook Pro (other than the decent graphics part - fucking Apple and their insistence on using crap GPUs).
Sure, thatās ok - but itās on a single model and the highest priced one to boot. Apple has a long and storied history of making baffling decisions regarding GPUs and it makes me sad.
well itās a work machine so you aināt supposed to be playing quake on it.
i honestly have noticed any real performance issues with full disk encryption on my work laptop other than the boot time. but it isnāt like i tax it all that much either.
Not at any company Iāve worked recently but Iāve worked at a company where people would throw their laptop against a brick wall trying to break it early. Hardware support would painstakingly replace every broken part ā¦ and then bill each part back to the offending department because physical abuse isnāt covered under warranty.
