On 02/12/2012 04:48 PM, Dave Smith wrote: > On Feb 12, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Tod Hansmann wrote: >> Tell them no. There's no business case for spending 2-3x as much on the >> hardware to run most likely the same software (or very, very similar). >> None. Let me emphasize that: "no business case." > Here's a business case. > > Offering your developers hardware they love (whatever the brand) is a great > way to attract good talent. If you "save" your business a couple grand by > buying a laptop that your developers don't like, you'll probably end up > losing that money many times over in lost productivity. > > Developer hardware is no place to skimp. It's so cheap compared to other > developer incentives. > > If a few thousand dollars of savings per developer makes *any* difference to > your business, then your business is in serious trouble. > I have to agree with you 100% here. I was told something similar in a past life about using a Windows desktop to administer Linux servers. I went as far as to argue that we didn't force the Windows admins to use Linux desktops.... Nope, I can (apparently) be just as "productive" with Putty as I can with Terminator or Konsole, except for every little snafu in Windows makes me contemplate jumping from the roof to my death at lunch.
Needless to say I didn't stick around very long after that. I figured if the employer was so out of touch with my job role as to not understand how something so mundane as my choice of OS could both be a morale booster, as well as a productivity booster, there was no way they'd ever get around to fixing the real problems we had to deal with either. So I split. --Henry /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
