Funny thing is that it's only several minutes after reading the article that I realized that my work laptop doesn't matter much. My development machine is actually an Azure VM running in a data centre nearly 500 Km away. "Oh no! That's crazy!" Well, it's actually a better experience than the desktop tower I used to use for development. Our laptops are really just for connecting to VMs and for corporate email (not accessible through the VMs).
The same problem persists, however: There is a cost associated with running those VMs so, for example, we cannot pick VMs that run on SSDs. Just hard disk ones. The default recommendation is something like 7 GB RAM, though we can pick 16 GB if we need it (like me). You'd need to spend time making your case to get anything fancier. But, as I mentioned above, this is waaayyyy better than it used to be for us.
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Funny thing is that it's only several minutes after reading the article that I realized that my work laptop doesn't matter much. My development machine is actually an Azure VM running in a data centre nearly 500 Km away. "Oh no! That's crazy!" Well, it's actually a better experience than the desktop tower I used to use for development. Our laptops are really just for connecting to VMs and for corporate email (not accessible through the VMs).
The same problem persists, however: There is a cost associated with running those VMs so, for example, we cannot pick VMs that run on SSDs. Just hard disk ones. The default recommendation is something like 7 GB RAM, though we can pick 16 GB if we need it (like me). You'd need to spend time making your case to get anything fancier. But, as I mentioned above, this is waaayyyy better than it used to be for us.