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Well either she is unneccesarily using a gaming Laptop for non-gaming.
Or she uses her private gaming laptop for work and doesnt separate between those two spheres, which is unprofessional and potentially dangerous in regards to privacy security.
I don't see why this would be an issue, it's a computer after all.
Using her own machine for sensitive work like that, on the other hand, I do see the point. Unless there is some sort of dual boot setup involved.
If she bought a gaming laptop specifically for work (this is the way you end up with a gaming laptop that’s not also your personal laptop) then it’s a silly, unnecessary, ill suited decision. There are other laptops with better battery life, cheaper, lighter, etc etc etc…. That fit the lawyer usecase better. Why would a lawyer buy a gaming laptop to lawyer?
IANAL but I don’t think you need discrete graphics for lawyer applications. But who knows, maybe she’s running an ML model locally to tell her what to do.
This lawyer might make lots of graphs oror presentations where a nice graphics card is useful, or the lawyer trusts the brand and bought the laptop she wanted.
Unless she’s making ray-traced 3-d renderings of crime scenes, she’s doesn’t need a dGPU. If those are being made at all, they’d be coming from a SME.
‘Trusted brand’ I could buy, but then it’s still a bad choice because of this very conversation it’s sparked… it’s a distraction from her professional abilities.
Well, no, I think you’re missing the point.
There’s really no reason for a lawyer to be carrying a huge gaming laptop as their daily driver. There’s no advantage to it over an ultrabook, MBP, or any high-end productivity laptop (that’s probably in a lower price bracket to boot).
Now, if they do game on it, and also use it for work, that speaks to very poor IT security practice. Sensitive/valuable client data, especially for such a high-profile case, shouldn’t be on the same system that is built for gaming. The main reason being that games aren’t designed to be run on secure systems. So many of them arbitrarily require admin rights to perform properly, which means that this lawyer would have to have local admin privileges to be able to use them.
Giving a non-technical user admin privileges to a system that contains sensitive data for a high-profile client is absolutely a recipe for disaster. That system needs to be locked the fuck down. Not running Baldurs Gate during recess.
Now, perhaps, there’s a logical reason. Maybe her practice has a really good IT team and they’ve been able to effectively set up a good, secure BYOD environment. I’d still question this lawyers judgement in their professional image to select an RGB gaming laptop for their work. To me, this is no different than a shady personal injury lawyer that features their trashy Hummer H2 in every commercial, which exclusively airs during reruns of Jerry Springer.
You bought it specifically only to watch tv on? Seems like a waste of money.
Well do you know if that lady bought it only for use in court?
Jesus, people drawing conclusions from a still image. It could have been a gift? Maybe it's not even her laptop? Maybe she has so much money that she wanted it for the rgb? Maybe she does video editing as a hobbie? Maybe she uses it for traveling for gaming and work, because NOONE brings one laptop for gaming and one for work when travelling.
Tell me more about what she does after work is over, you seem to know...
It’s totally possible that she of her own informed mind made the best choice for her use case.
You make that claim, but I literally traveled with my personal and professional laptops on multiple occasions. Work policy is pretty strict on acceptable use of the work laptop, despite it being specced for running light ML tasks, and capable of gaming.
The choice of gaming laptop for suit wearing professional use just seems really odd. I’ll admit that if a guy did it, I’d have a slightly different first take… and that’d be to assume he was a gamer, and think “bro brought his fucking gaming machine to court”. And if you wanna call me out on that assumption, I’ll happily go out and double check my pre-conceived notions with statistics about pc gamers. I could be wrong.
Um, woman with a ROG here. 😁 I do not bring it with me to defend high profile clients in court, though.
I understand, but my point is why people are being so judgmental and prejudice about it? Maybe that's her actual working laptop, I've seen companies indulging their best workers with stuff like that.
Even if it's an odd choice to bring to court, it's still just a laptop, it's not like she decided to go to court in bermudas.
Hopefully, people are just taking liberties to shit talk someone they dislike for reasons unrelated to the shit talking.
Even in the worst case that it’s all Misogynistic, well… at least the attacks aren’t on her womanhood or some other protected class.
In Texas communities people were making fun of Greg Abbotts handicap, and thought that was ok because he’s a horrible excuse for a human. But, disability is a protected class. It’s a thing we agree shouldn’t be used against someone.
And I just don’t see the same problem with ridiculing someone for being a gaming laptop wielding lawyer.
I do the same thing, but it’s my home desktop. For me the big thing here isn’t about using your gaming computer for work it’s using it for work as a lawyer. There are two components to this: first law requires a degree of privacy and security that not having a separate computer for work demonstrates a habit of lack of security, second is that bringing an rgb laptop to a courtroom as a defense lawyer is akin to wearing jeans and a tshirt to court as a defense lawyer, it shouldn’t be a problem but judges tend to really not like that sort of thing and so it demonstrates a lack of professionalism in a job where professionalism impacts your performance