EVERYONES COMPUTER IS SLOW, I DONT GIVE A F!!!
So sick of fucking idiots who complain that their computer is sooo slow, yet they sit there and open the same program 50 times because it didnt instantly open the first time
I hate stupid people, and im surrounded by them.
It's really tough too when you're on a tight budget. I have one larger customer who really loves these little NUC computers, which use 500 mb/s SSD drives, and recently wired up CAT6 Gigabit to everything, so the user experience is pretty awesome because your computer boots up in like 30 seconds & everything is zippy. Working with a customer that has both a budget & a management charter to improve efficiency is da bomb :thumbsup:
But most of the places I work with actually still use Windows XP (despite it being 2015), typically on like a Dell tower with a 5400rpm hard drive, and due to the budget, the best they can sometimes do is max out at 4 gigs of RAM (32-bit XP) & replace the boot drive with a solid-state drive, so at least their user experience is improved over what they had before. I still have customers that use 95 because it works, which sounds crazy, but that's the real-world. Personally I love managing a variety of devices & especially have fun doing creative upgrades for sites with aging equipment (like to the NUC mini-computer platform), so it's all good. Plus I'm not on-site 24/7 at these smaller places so I don't have to deal with the constant complaints because the owners won't buy good stuff :biggrin:
It's really amazing how many companies just don't have CLUE though. I have one customer who has the budget, but not the management ability, to upgrade the computer (i.e. they can pay for it but see computers as cars - you have a computer, why do you need a new one?), which really limits their productivity throughout the day because everyone is working dog-slow. One funny thing at that site is that they use a 48-port 10/100 unmanaged Netgear switch from Staples for an entire office full of people & wonder why everything is slow & why it keeps crapping out every few months. They finally upgraded to a Gigabit model, which helped, but it was basically office full of users > unmanaged Gigabit switch > some Comcast router or something. With ancient XP 5400rpm computers