Re: Big Biscuits
Didn't they mention bloatware? Government computing at the workstation level includes to two agents for system and software management, accounting and patching of systems, cranked up AD interactions, add in full-boat continuous antivirus scanning, encryption, continuous network scanning, always on Teams client, always on email client, whether Outlook or O365, network access agent, Adobe Cloud always on and I am probably missing other factors. Fully 1/3 of your processor and RAM is burned in this on a well equipped workstation. My policy from years ago for laptops was i7 and minimum 16GB RAM for the "basic functionality" people- i.e: spreadsheet as database type users. 32GB for "power users" That was the only way I didn't get daily complaints about how bloody slow their computer was.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
