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I am going to need a more powerful work computer

Not to do my job - but to use all the junk like Miro and Zoom and Datadog

My daily tasks are trivial for my computer to perform - but using the tools we've chosen means I need more.

This is failure of our entire industry.

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silverwizard
silverwizard  
@Jonathan Lamothe My personal computers are all basically things I've gotten out of eBay and hand-me-downs. My work computer is literally someone else complained about it.
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Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@silverwizard Apparently social functions aren't hard just for nerds, for computers too!
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CJ the Awkward Lefty
CJ the Awkward Lefty  
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Can you add hardware to it to increase the processing power? I'm planning to take my work laptop to my computer guys to see if that's possible. I got a super cheap laptop about a year ago because the one I'd had for years broke and I didn't pay attention to the specs. 4GB of RAM is *not* sufficient to both run Zoom and play music unless you're cool with a 10-minute startup.
silverwizard
silverwizard  
@CJ the Awkward Lefty if it was a personal computer I'd 100% open it and increase the ram or whatever, but work computer is a different beast.

But 4GB RAM being unsufficient for a whiteboard or video call is unacceptable
@CJ the Awkward Lefty
CJ the Awkward Lefty
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The whole thing just runs really slowly, especially on startup. I don't know if there's some other cause but it was like this pretty much from the moment I got it.
silverwizard
silverwizard  
@CJ the Awkward Lefty startup slowdown probably means a spinning disk (a hard drive/hdd instead of a solid state drive/ssd), which makes windows start very slow
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silverwizard
silverwizard  
@CJ the Awkward Lefty huh, seems like Windows deals less well with low RAM than I'd expect, because that seems an ok CPU and ok disk.

But I mean, don't ask me about computers I only buy stuff people are discarding and then build abominations out of it, I don't do computers anymore
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