Super deduction - Time for new equipment?

[jamesbrown]

All right smartass. I was being lazy with the terminology. "Reconciling multiple variables across multiple workstreams and datasets while allowing for variability in each dataset and observing the likely result and allowing for target finding on occasion" is just a bit clunky.

FWIW I've done a few rather more complex programming solutions over the years. An early and very effective real-time ACD for example, spawning specific campaign questionnaires to the operator's workstation. Building a suite of programs that analysed the feed requirements of a dairy herd to optimise milk quota production for another. Just got bored with having to learn new languages (about 8 of them and fifteen different Operating systems) and moved ton to rather more difficult challenges. Coders these days are just another resource variable afaic.

Sorry I hurt your feelings.

[malvolio]

"Meaty calculations" in "Excel". Chuckle.

All right smartass. I was being lazy with the terminology. "Reconciling multiple variables across multiple workstreams and datasets while allowing for variability in each dataset and observing the likely result and allowing for target finding on occasion" is just a bit clunky.

FWIW I've done a few rather more complex programming solutions over the years. An early and very effective real-time ACD for example, spawning specific campaign questionnaires to the operator's workstation. Building a suite of programs that analysed the feed requirements of a dairy herd to optimise milk quota production for another. Just got bored with having to learn new languages (about 8 of them and fifteen different Operating systems) and moved ton to rather more difficult challenges. Coders these days are just another resource variable afaic.

[jamesbrown]

"Meaty calculations" in "Excel". Chuckle.

[NotAllThere]

Several of the things I consulted on managerially required some fairly meaty calculations, usually on Excel spreadsheets running at around 2-3 Gb.

Oooh, 'ark at 'er. I'm so impressed...

I reminded of when I interfaced a VB system to an ERP system. The programmer proudly exclaimed that his database was 1GB in size. In the ERP ledger, just the General Ledger was 32GB. That was 20 years ago.

[PerfectStorm]

Sure, let's spend a silly amount of money (who need a £2k laptop these days?)

I will say this - my £4k laptop ? is still going very well 5 years after purchasing.

Sometimes it makes sense to get something decent.

[malvolio]

Said the management consultant who barely needs a notebook and anything he's written down can be thrown away.

No you're right. £2K isn't enough. Real IT types need one of these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-Studio...CKV/ref=sr_1_2 £6599.

Several of the things I consulted on managerially required some fairly meaty calculations, usually on Excel spreadsheets running at around 2-3 Gb. Datacentres don't just fall together, nor do £100m pound ITT responses or accurate service cost calculations.

I managed all I ever needed on an ASUS Zenbook costing a shade under £600 in 2010 and thought that was an extravagance. It was easily faster than the equivalent Mac (at around £1400) and had better graphics. Still got it, still works.

So yah boo to you...

[lecyclist]

Great incentive - totally makes up for IR35 and the challenges Brits will have getting Visas to work in EU/EEA.

Although, it does get me thinking about that ALIENWARE AURORA R12 "server" I've had my eye on for some time.

[NotAllThere]

...who need a £2k laptop these days?...

Said the management consultant who barely needs a notebook and anything he's written down can be thrown away.

No you're right. £2K isn't enough. Real IT types need one of these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-Studio...CKV/ref=sr_1_2 £6599.

[northernladuk]

no it's not. It's a discount.

I know that but most people asking these type of questions don't.

[jamesbrown]

I agree completely. But the whole premise of the thread is to buy a super-expensive device, based on a new scheme, launched TODAY, but without any clear legislation to back it up.
A laptop is really not the target asset of this really.
It's as Maslins says. With the bump in CT coming, you don't want to stifle demand by forcing companies to delay their fixed asset purchases as a result of the CT change. It's quite a shrewd idea really.

I didn't read it that way (yes, a glaring error about the saving, but that isn't uncommon). What Maslin's said was explicitly part of the announcement so, yeah, I agree with that. The whole design is based around consumption now in order to kickstart the recovery. Whether it really ends when the CT increase kicks in, I personally doubt it - Sunak is a highly political creature and he's created a political opportunity for himself, "Yeah CT is going up now, but look! A rabbit!". Either way, that intention was clear in the announcement.

I do not plan to second-guess the scheme. Obviously, we await the legislation, but I highly doubt that particular (e.g., small IT) companies are not being targeted equally because the whole point of the scheme is to increase consumption now.