Immediate business expensing courtesy of the US tax changes.
HP + Dell added 1.7 million units vs the prior year. A substantial boost for them.
From April:
"Tax Windfall Going to Capex Way Faster Than Stock Buybacks"
"Among the 130 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported results in this earnings season, capital spending increased by 39 percent, the fastest rate in seven years, data compiled by UBS AG show."
Still shocked how many PCs are sold today with traditional 1 TB 5.6k drives. SSD is still often treated like a special request part, which is insane, given a business PC only needs a 128 GB hard drive. (As all data belongs on the network.)
I tend to agree with you, but it depends a bit on the kind of data. Office documents are fine in a network share, but I prefer my Git repo locally. For audio/video it really depends on the network setup.
On a given standard desktop PC load, you need about half of a 128 GB hard drive. Feel free to use the other half for staging files you're working on. :)
Obviously, this spec is not the same for say, a video production system or the like. I would point out that most workloads have a negligible to non-existent network latency on a good internal network.
(Also, note that on a 1 TB 5.6k drive, your drive latency is worse than my network latency.)
