BladeVenom
Supreme [H]ardness
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200 million workers hate their job, and would rather be playing PC games.
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200 million workers hate their job, and would rather be playing PC games.
My company keeps getting iPads for the VPs and stuff and THEN asking us here at the IT department how to get them to use the Windows applications they want to use with them.
This is why we told them to get Windows 8 tablets instead.
On the start screen type the following: shutdown -r -t 0
Much easier than trying to navigate.
So that's how great the windows 8/server 2012 touch screen GUI is, it's faster to revert to the command line!
What kind of work do most of your users do?
Developers and installers need to run multiple VM's of servers (Server 2008, SQL, IIS, and applications).
General office users are heavy MS Office use, Outlook, CRM, and other internal apps. Many of these users are currently using the dual core laptops, but the 2.2Ghz dual core/4GB ram is barely enough due to the multiple apps they run at the same time. If I could upgrade the laptops to 8GB, they might be ok.
Developers and installers need to run multiple VM's of servers (Server 2008, SQL, IIS, and applications).
General office users are heavy MS Office use, Outlook, CRM, and other internal apps. Many of these users are currently using the dual core laptops, but the 2.2Ghz dual core/4GB ram is barely enough due to the multiple apps they run at the same time. If I could upgrade the laptops to 8GB, they might be ok.
One reason these kinds of threads fascinate me is because I often have no idea why people are finding things so difficult that I've never had issue with. When you run the Windows 8 desktop RDP client everything, including hot corners work on the remote machine, even on a multiple monitor client.
Odd that a company would buy systems that would work effectively for years, instead of buying systems barely capable of meeting your user's needs today.
The hot corners work, I just hate waiting the 2-3 seconds for the box to popup, instead of just simply clicking on something.
The hot corners work, I just hate waiting the 2-3 seconds for the box to popup, instead of just simply clicking on something. Plus having to dig deeper into menus than before. Coming in through the Dell remote card (DRAC) when you can't use remote desktop is even worse due to the slower response time.
Part of the problem might be due to the mutple layers of remote desktop I'm going through (remote into a terminal server box, and then from there remote into another server, and then somethings controlling VM's or Hyper-V systems).
Yes I'm sure that i5 watered down to 17W ULV is quite the screamer. I'll wait for gen2 and take another look - Haswell is really what Surface needs..
Poll 9,700, extrapolate to 200,000,000.
Please stop spreading FUD, son. My X230T is using a 35W full-speed 3.1ghz turbo i5 with hyperthreading and full HD4000. It performs spectacularly for my work.
Please stop spreading FUD, son. My X230T is using a 35W full-speed 3.1ghz turbo i5 with hyperthreading and full HD4000. It performs spectacularly for my work.
I'm trying to think of a way that you could come across as more condescending, but nothing's coming to me.Might want to learn basic statistics and probability before saying 9700 is too low of a sample size, buddy-boy.
I'm trying to think of a way that you could come across as more condescending, but nothing's coming to me.
Uh-huh. I'm writing this from my $664 X230T with i5 ivy bridge, 8gb ddr3, 128gb ssd, wacom pen+multitouch digitizer convertible, by the way . An iDevice is a poor choice no matter how you slice it.... convertibles and detachables for Windows 8 make good sense though .
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The dual core systm are 5-6 years old (they where top of the line when bought)
I'd say we got our money's worth out of them.
The laptops we are currently buying are 2.8ghz i5's with 16GB ram.
Anything better is lot more expensive, and not worth the marginal increase in speed.
I just googled your X230T. it starts at $1,149.00. if it was $664 I would buy it, instantly.
I was saying your company is making good choices on hardware, which is very odd. Most companies purchase the bare minimum to operate