Re: Laptop replacement

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Subject	Re: Laptop replacement
Date	2025-03-27 10:49 +0100
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 27/03/2025 06:06, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:02:39 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> 
>>> Well I have had pretty good results for MY needs with HP laptops BUT
>>> anything to run Windows 11 seems very expensive. Like £400
>>> 
>>> Whereas a Windows ten capable refurbished is under £100
>> 
>> Would you entrust mission-critical business operations to obsolete,
>> unsupported software?
>
> I'd trust it to Linux.
> Actually that's MS bullshit.
> The greatest security risk from a laptop is leaving it on a train.
>
> If its 'mission critical' it doesn't go on a laptop. Period. Or you get 
> sacked
> This isn't Donald Trumps administration, this is real life

Also note that if you build around the constraints of crappy hardware with 
technologies such as backups, clusters, active/active clusters etc. they 
can live very well on crappy hardware.

Of course this is just theoretical, and you collect your requirements, and 
SLA:s towards your customers, and then make an informed decision.

Since I have backups of my laptop, and could go to the store and buy a new 
one in about 60 minutes, and do a restore of my company documents within 
another 60 minutes, I in theory, have no problems with running my company 
on "crappy" hardware.

Due to convenience, I tend to run it on maximum 3-4 year old laptops, and 
my SaaS product runs on refurbished servers in the cloud.

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