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Originally Posted by M_Six
In my years as an IT pro at a university, I most often found the "need for a new laptop" stemmed from a lack of care on behalf of the user. People don't care about equipment they didn't buy out of their own funds. That said, I've seen some non-tenured faculty members endure 8 and 9 year old laptops. Top admin and faculty get new rigs every few years. Adjuncts and staff get hand-me-downs. The Apple users are usually better off.
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For me it's really about processing power... I work in a commercially based organization but I focus on much more data driven, excel heavy, analytical type work and they give all of us the same computers.
You can see it works for the sales teams... not so much for everyone else when you hear the fan blasting and the computer barely able to keep up with larger calcs.