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...and we're back to trying to convince a penny-wise pound-foolish company to buy twice the computing hardware for every developer.

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Or just buy everyone desktops. Honestly I think laptops are completely superfluous for every business I've ever worked at. Nobody is truly getting value out of bringing a laptop to meetings, they just like them.

I think whatever companies you were at just didn't have very effective meetings. There's a time for "laptops down" and there's a time for laptops. If we can't prototype, brainstorm, outline ideas... why even have meetings in the first place?

> why even have meetings in the first place

Exactly. I personally have never been in a meeting which I thought was absolutely necessary. Except maybe new fire regs.

Nope, laptops are just very cheap thin clients to remote onto the desktops with much higher power. This gives the advantage of being able to leave things compiling whilst you shut your laptop at the end of the day.

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