Anybody still using really old hardware and software at work?

[Munday]

I started a new job a couple of months ago and the pc I have been given is so old! I am a web/graphic designer and I am using an archaic 17in CRT which is just shocking for graphics work.
Brought my laptop in from home to work on (I have a widescreen Vaio with the X-black screen so perfect) and they moaned and said I have to use works equipment!

Anyone else have this problem?

 

[cava83]

I started my job with a single 15" screen and a Fujitsu machine with 256 ram.

I now have dual 20" HP screens, new keyboard and mouse and a dual core HP DX with 2gig of ram, not the best of specs but much better than the rubbish I had before.

If your Sony is better, use that! Tell them to pee off

 

[Longy]

I'm a designer and still use my 19"CRT miles better for colour than any LCD screen by far!!

 

[Ali]

Windows XP, New IBM thinkpad tho as of Jan, so not too bad.

 

[Munday]

I'm a designer and still use my 19"CRT miles better for colour than any LCD screen by far!!

The difference is that your 19in CRT is probably a high end monitor.... mine is a £50 piece of Dell sh*t lol.

They are stuck in the dark ages here...

 

[MarkCup]

I've got a nice spanking laptop here...but everyone else gets a Dell slimline desktop, with a 3.5 inch floppy, with a massive 15 inch CRT.

Poor them LOL

No way would I let them bring their own machine to work on - I couldn't police/audit what they're doing, what's installed etc. - too much of a pain in the arse.

 

[oska]

I have a Pentium III piece of s**t that cannot cope with today's demands. It takes 30 minutes to get into Outlook in the morning so I just leave it running.

 

[Millsy]

i'm a CAD technician, when i started was on a 17" CRT and a pc built by the local rip off IT shop, the went to a flatscreen 19" CRT with an ok Dell tower, no i'm on a 22" Dell LCD and an XPS420 quad core machine, which is ten times better than before. would like dual screens tbh.

 

[Scottydog]

Tell them you think the CRT screen your using for graphic work is giving you a headache, then they SHOULD do a VDU assessment and get the CRT changed, that's what we do at my work place anyway, not that we have any CRTs left now.

I use this monster at work, only got it a few weeks ago, 2xQuad Core! http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/range.html?t=pc&c=all&r=ANN

((Annihilator Pro + 20" wide Samsung HD monitor)

 

[Millsy]

edit, just linked the 22" LCD on the desk next to me which is unused to my machine, dual screen ftw

 

[Millsy]

Tell them you think the CRT screen your using for graphic work is giving you a headache, then they SHOULD do a VDU assessment and get the CRT changed, that's what we do at my work place anyway, not that we have any CRTs left now.

I use this monster at work, only got it a few weeks ago, 2xQuad Core! http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/range.html?t=pc&c=all&r=ANN

((Annihilator Pro + 20" wide Samsung HD monitor)

lucky fucker

 

[koi]

I work for one of the biggest IT companies and I get a PC with a P4 and 512mb ram. Sad thing is that it's the best machines in my team!!

 

[Dafthead]

All our equipment is on a 2 1/2 year rolling lease, swapped out for brand spanking stuff every time this period is up, including servers/SAN etc too

Happy Days

 

[Munday]

All our equipment is on a 2 1/2 year rolling lease, swapped out for brand spanking stuff every time this period is up, including servers/SAN etc too

Happy Days

My old workplace had that policy! Not used to all this old stuff

The screen does kill my eyes, I might have a word with them but I complained before and they weren't interested. I work for a very small company that only has about 8 office based staff.

 

[Ltfcpaul]

i just got rid of my panasonic toughbook cf-27 runnin windows 98 and a massive 4gig hard drive that didn't like standby i rebooted it at least 3 times a day what a pile of shite got it replaced with a panasonic toughbook cf-52 which is so much better its unreal still not amazing tho! lol

 

[The Hoff]

All the stuff here gets replaced at 3 years on the dot.

With me being in IT all our team have decent stuff:

2X HP LP2065
HP XW6400 (Quad Core Xeon 5140's)
8GB RAM

Not bad kit at all!