Comment on Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”

Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When I got hired at my job where I could write and dictate policy, the first thing I did was write up a new IT Purchasing Policy with a “Banned Manufacturers” section right up top with HP right at #1 and Dell at #2

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  • residentmarchant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What did you prefer? Lenovo?

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    • Ackward@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      MacBook pros!

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  • bamboo@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What’s the issue with Dell? Everyone I know at work with Dell laptops likes them. I’ve used XPS 15 and 13 in the past and they’ve been generally fine. Battery life sucked but I haven’t ever seen an x86 laptop with what I would consider good battery life.

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• stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Considering that HP is the other choice that most businesses consider, I’d take the Dell 100% of the time. HP’s laptops are complete and utter trash.

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  • mean_bean279@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lenovo is at the top of the enterprise devices game right now. I always say they operate in cycles and usually each brand trades every 2 years who is at number one.

    I still will always shit on HP. And HPE Aruba switches are absolutely trash.

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    • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Funny, I try to block anyone in my department that wants to purchase a Lenovo. My most recent experiences with them have been a faulty battery driver that was known online for at least six months before it was brought to my attention that the model I purchased for someone (their choice) refused to recharge, and Lenovo continued to deny any problems on their side… We returned the laptop as unusable because the only way to charge it was to boot into the BIOS screen. The last time I dealt with them, the corporate rep I worked with was right on top of emails and phone calls until we made a purchase, then refused to answer my contacts after that. After a month of trying to get in touch with him I finally called the main line, and the person I spoke with said “oh he just walked by my desk, let me grab him”. The excuse I was given was that he had been too busy to respond.

      Basically every time I’ve been forced to purchase a Lenovo for someone, there has been zero support provided and half of them had to be returned. Granted, I haven’t bought any since COVID but I really hope I never have to deal with them again.

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lenovo: it may as well be Huawei.

      You… don’t follow that rule?

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    • stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lenovo should be out just by virtue of being a Chinese company. You should not trust critical security devices to Chinese companies.

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      • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Riiiight… trust American companies instead… definitely so…

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    • sudo42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And fuck Carly Fiorina for destroying HP.

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  • mPony@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    HP’s laptops are complete and utter trash

    a) yes b) perhaps that also describes their management

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    • mrvictory1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      perhaps that also describes their management everything ftfy

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• thejml@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Our shop has two options (for security and management, they keep the options lean). Dell Windows 11 machines and Mac. The suckiness of the Dell ecosystem, combined with Windows 11 being fairly terrible, has pushed most all of my colleagues over to Mac over the last few years. Even most of the ASP.NET developers are on Mac at this point. This just solidifies that direction even further.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My company has one option, Lenovo with locked down Windows 11. We didn’t want to deal with the IT dept constantly, so we told them we need Macs and bought them ourselves, despite most of our team (including me) not liking Apple. We don’t need macOS for anything, we just build software for Linux servers and Windows desktops, but here we are because of stupid corporate policy.

    I use a Lenovo running Linux at home, and my next laptop will probably be a Framework. But I use macOS all day because IT depts kinda suck (they won’t allow Linux either, if it’s company hardware, it runs company images).

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