My company gives MacBooks to product and some engineering folks while analytics teams get Thinkpads. I really miss my MacBook from my last company and want to swap - is this a reasonable ask? How can I justify it without sounding like I’m whining just because “I like it better”?

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Collaboration is easier when everyone is on the same platform. Powerpoint, Keynote, etc (maybe say you need to use Keynote, 😆)

Do you code in python ? Python and other languages work better on a Unix like core.

do you use any Microsoft Tools (SQL or Power BI ?) that would be the counter argument

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What do you mean by "work better"?

One would not host a serious database on a single machine. Usually it would be some sort of a computer cluster, usually running a gnu/linux OS but sometimes windows, that they establish a connection with using their SQL client. Also, SQL itself is independent of Microsoft. They might use SQL Server, which was developed by Microsoft, but even that has support for major Linux OS systems.

Yes completely reasonable, it’s ridiculous to expect anyone to do serious analytics on a windows machine

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"I like it better" is a legitimate reason. If it helps you to be more productive, then that is a good reason on its own.

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