Home user's were limited to 100/10 forever up here. We recently got 1gbit/50 so I went with the free upgrade for my tier. I remember the 40down days of college. Never again.
It's one of the first major accessories I bought That I didn't regret right away and sell within a week. Been running it everyday at home and it's been great.
There is always QC issues. We are a Dell shop and yes, I have had a dozen of weird hardware failures. But We also buy 100+ machines a year. My XPS 8940 and XPS13 have been bullet proof for the last almost two years. Daily drive both 40+ hours a week.
My work is giving us a home setup stipend if we return to the office 3 days a week. So I'm eyeing a triple 27" 1440P monitor setup at home. I like the 32" display but in reality its just too big and not needed.
Planning on a new build for the first time since 2017. Have the PSU and RAM. And just going to move over my RTX 2060 KO. I don't game much so GPU is overkill.
I have a thunderbolt dock that has one set of keyboard and mouse/trackball for the work day. The monitors are wired to both the dock and my desktop. I keep the "gaming" peripherals plugged into my desktop for low latency. I just shutdown at the end of the work day and switch monitor inputs and...
I've been known as the budget builder around the web. Stuck with Optiplex's & Thinkstations for years. With the miners just taking the GPU and tossing great prebuilds on ebay for cheap I have been going that route. Setup a co workers son with a XPS with an i5 10400 and a GTX 1050 4GB I had in my...