New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Help, my boss wants to us to use laptops from 2011 for development
Ask HN: Help, my boss wants to us to use laptops from 2011 for development
7 by hnthrow12345 | 3 comments on Hacker News.
I work at a coding school, and some of our participants don't have their own hardware. My boss wants to give them 11 year old laptops that have been donated to us. The specific model is HP EliteBook 8460p. I keep telling him that these laptops are not suited for modern dev work, even for beginners. We do Java backend work, so we need IntelliJ and docker. He says that as long as they work at all, it will be fine. It's ok if beginners wait a bit longer for things to compile. He's non technical by the way. I don't know what else I can say to him to make him understand that these devices are not enough. Please help. Posting this from a throwaway for obvious reasons.
7 by hnthrow12345 | 3 comments on Hacker News.
I work at a coding school, and some of our participants don't have their own hardware. My boss wants to give them 11 year old laptops that have been donated to us. The specific model is HP EliteBook 8460p. I keep telling him that these laptops are not suited for modern dev work, even for beginners. We do Java backend work, so we need IntelliJ and docker. He says that as long as they work at all, it will be fine. It's ok if beginners wait a bit longer for things to compile. He's non technical by the way. I don't know what else I can say to him to make him understand that these devices are not enough. Please help. Posting this from a throwaway for obvious reasons.
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