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mrblaze1357 t1_jboshfh wrote

Saw this article as I'm literally sitting at my desk working on a 7330. So they're kinda wrong about the price. We pay about $1650 for this PC, and $1550 for the 7430. Most businesses that buy in build will receive bulk pricing that's locked in. It's more expensive for normies up front which I hold issues with. But this isn't an Inspiron or XPS this is a latitude.

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gambiting t1_jbph7wr wrote

Exactly. I have a top spec precision 7670, if you went on Dell's website that spec would cost you about £7500. I know as a fact that our company pays around £3800 each for them. Business pricing is where these products make sense. And also they know that literally no one else on the market offers this spec so if you really need 128GB of ram and a top spec GPU then you kinda only have one option(or a custom laptop builder, but no large corporation is going to buy laptops from them).

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myonlinepersonality t1_jbqfg2d wrote

Jeepers, what do you use that badboy for?

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enraged768 t1_jbqjste wrote

I have one and use them to spin up different VMs out in the field to work on different industrial automation devices. We get the rugged ones though they come with a handle dual batteries so I can actually work all day without charging it and it has a handle and a built in rs232 port.

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oldtimeplane t1_jbqq7r6 wrote

My company is about to start delivering our automation products to the field. Spinning up VMs to work on equipment sounds much more modern than the old technician with a clunky laptop approach. Can you describe the benefits you get from this approach and maybe a bit about your workflow? I'm really curious about how you would operate.

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enraged768 t1_jbqvf7f wrote

Well when you have 5 vendors that sell five different product line that require varying levels of licencing you need vms to keep everything separate. For instance there's extremely old Allan Bradley equipment out there 30, 20, 15 years old you need vms to store those softwares on them so you can communicate with old equipment. You need it to keep customers separate and you need it so you can just stop the virtual machine if there's any issues within the environment you've created. But....it's still just on a laptop for the field stuff. It's just an extremely expensive laptop. When I'm sitting in my shop we have a virtual environment that I can log into and do what I need to. We still have clunky laptops you're honestly not going to come sweeping in and replace that aspect in the near future there's to much old shit out there still. I mean hell I just worked on a GE 90-30 that's still in service this week. That's....older than most people on Reddit.

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Visible-Disaster t1_jbrccht wrote

But how do you make your PCMK card work without a PCMCIA slot? DH+ at 57.6kb is all you need! /s

Pre VMware I had multiple hard drives for different era controllers. Was really fun in the bad old days of when you could only have one Logix 5000 version installed at a time.

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gambiting t1_jbqmdlr wrote

Work. I work in video games, 128GB ram is pretty much our minimum spec or you wouldn't be able to binarize some of our maps. And the laptop comes with a 3080Ti because that's the only card that comes with 16GB vram(outside of the quattro range).

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