• Gorroth@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    So you work from home, right? May I ask what you do for a living? Just curious

    Btw I asked my company for a MacBook Pro as work device. It’s absolutely silent, because it’s fan free and hooked up to my 49“ ultrawide monitor. But as I said in another comment I only use the device to connect remotely to other devices, so I don’t need much power locally.

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      11 months ago

      I’m a software developer. Previous times I’ve had instances where for one reason or another I’ve had to work on pretty terrible machines; needless to say that at one point this gets on my nerves and I just can’t work as well. Right now I have a pretty recent Dell Precision with 12th gen Core i7 and that CPU is surprisingly good for a model with just two P-cores; still, it’s nowhere near the 5900X I have in my desktop. On my previous job I had a laptop with I think 10th gen i7 that was generally good, but from time to time it would decide that it would just throttle down to like 800 MHz and stay there for no particular reason (temps were fine and everything).

      Still, I get that being able to work on your own hardware is rather an exclusion (unless you’re a freelancer).