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Ask HN: What is your workdesk setup at company? Dedicated Desktop/Laptop/? or

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Hi, I would like to know the office/workspace hardware and s/w configuration of different companies.

- In past I worked in small IT company, we had a single network with not much restriction, we were allowed to experiment with setup. For hardware, we had three desktops, two Laptotps, an iMac 21", A Mackbook Pro 18". Typical desktop was i5 processor, 8-16Gigs Ram, 1TB HDD and a mediocre graphic card. One developer liked to use desktop with multiple screen setup. We also had three different genration iPhones, an iPad and five android phones as testing devices.

One desktop was setup as server,every developer had his own work directory on that. One could login from any PC and work. For version controlling we had at SVN first, later migrated to git and github private repo.

-Current Setup, Currently I have a desktop pc with almost same config as above with extra ram and added SSD.

Last company I worked at (~500 employees), almost 4 years ago, I was handed a desktop computer with the current top of the line i7, 32 gigs of RAM, 512 GB SSD and an HDD. No dedicated GPU but didn't do any GPU work so it didn't matter. A single QHD 32" monitor was provided. You could potentially request a second one, but in practice no one in my team asked for a second one.

Right now, at the smaller startup I'm working for, I'm using a Dell XPS 13. What was at the time the top CPU configuration but only 16 gigs of RAM. An additional Full HD monitor was provided but you could easily ask for more.

Thanks for info, can you share how your computers were networked? Did you work on remote deployed code or just a local copy of it?

Desktop plugged into Ethernet, no further idea. My laptop connects to a secured wifi when I'm not working remotely now.

Both mentioned jobs have workflows that involve bringing up potentially most of the services being deployed in production locally.

People at my last job were starting to ask for 64 gigs of RAM to work with a full blown IDE as well as to deal with running multiple Java apps locally.

My current coworkers mostly work with light editors, and bring up smaller, containerized apps.

Thanks for sharing

My current office setup is a Chromebox with VDI (Windows 10, 2 VCPU/6GB) and two ancient Dell monitors.

For input, I use an older Apple USB keyboard from circa 2008 and an IBM mouse that I find comfortable. For work at home, I use a 2014 MacBook Pro.

My personal computer is a 27” 5k iMac, and we have various iPads and Chromebooks all over the place.

ThinkPad T470P, Dell P4317Q (purchased myself, default company stuff is 2 2k 27" displays), HP z440 (6 cores, 64gb ram, 2x 1TB NVM e drives), hp z840 (12 cores, 128gb ram, 2x 1TB nvme drives). Code mechanical keyboard, logitech mx master 3. I have my own office too (for now)!

great, Own office sounds exciting even though its temporary. I have seen some people preferring mechanical keyboard, I have no strong preference in this case.

Latest MacBook Pro and accessories (keyboard, mouse, two chargers, and a branded backpack to haul it around in). One 27" external monitor is standard, but you can request a second. A laptop stand, standing desk, dongles (USB, HDMI, ethernet, etc) are also provided.

Do standing desk really help?

At my office (~700 people; one office of many for a large international marketing agency) I have a 15-inch 2015 Macbook Pro with a 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7 and 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM. I carry this around to meetings and stuff, but hook it up to a second screen and bluetooth keyboard/mouse while it's at my desk.

Are you from marketing or also a techie? Though,I know, there are many non-programmer in HN audience.

X1 carbon running ubuntu with i7 and 16 GB ram, two 24" external monitors at work, one 27" external monitor at home.

Most of the people in my workplace use macbook pros though (with dual monitors).

I use my own mechanical keyboard and mx master 2s at work.

At my office I'm using a dual monitor (both 1600x900) Windows 7 PC with the following specs:

- Intel Core i5-6600

- 3.30GHz

- 16GB of RAM

- x64

The wired mouse is generic but I brought my own mechanical keyboard (KB Paradise v60 Mini).

Everyone has the same computer specs, from what I can tell, and we're at a medium-sized non-tech company.

yes, an almost universal specs. still I felt curious about how people manage them at scale.

Dedicated desktop with 32 cores and 128gb of ram plus two monitors and standing desk.

Dedicated workstation laptop w/ 32 GB RAM & 6 cores and 2 external monitors & common peripherals such as keyboard & mouse + a headset. If you don't mind asking, aprdm, what type of work do you do? If you ask me, I am working in the embedded field where I need to run a couple of virtual machines.

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