I was going through a whole process for this remote position where I had to verify if my device met their hardware requirements, and it doesn’t… meaning that the only thing preventing me from getting this job was literally just not having good enough equipment, as the hiring manager confirmed we would start the onboarding process immediately so long as my hardware met the requirements.
Ugh.
I usually would have a lot to say, but something feels extremely eerie about literally being this close. I can’t say much else.
The only way I can really undo this is to get a new PC within 30 days, which is not really an option for me, so I just gotta move on.
This is such a weird requirement you could literally build a pc with an old ass cpu at 2ghz and it would be slower than a modern pc at 1.6ghz this doesnt make sense. If theres a way to fake the clock speed…. And just say you upgraded it. On windows you can just edit the registry to show a completely different cpu
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0
8 core intels with sub 2Ghz is actually pretty common, I wonder if they factor core count into this?
It doesnt sound like a rational analysis of anything. Ill rock up with an overclocked phenom x4 965 and they’ll think i have a super computer. Although that cpu is still goated ngl
Reminds me of when the Athlon 64 came out! The Pentium 4 was destroying Athlon processors in performance but it ran so hot hitting 2, 3, 4GHz… Then the Athlon 64 drops and being able to do more instructions per clock cycle, ran at a like 30+% “slower” clock speed but performed significantly better. Then the 64x2 comes out and murders the Pentium D. Things were bad for Intel until they plopped out the Core series and THAT rocked.
But yah, if I clocked my CPU now down under 2GHz, it would still perform incredibly for day-to-day tasks! A requirement for an SSD OS drive is my main requirement for any computer now.