Need Advice on Upgrading Office Laptops and Network Setup
Hey folks!

Our office is overdue for a tech upgrade, and I could use some advice. We’re looking to replace a few laptops and also improve our network infrastructure—basically bringing everything up to speed for 2024.

For laptops, I’ve been leaning towards Dell Latitudes, mainly because we need something reliable for day-to-day business work, and we have a mix of remote and in-office employees. I’ve also been looking at better networking gear, like switches that can handle 50+ devices comfortably, with Power over Ethernet (PoE) support for our IP phones and cameras.

I stumbled across a few good options while researching, and one site that stood out was The Insight Solutions. They seem to have a decent lineup, but I’d love to hear if anyone has any recommendations or experiences they can share.

What do you guys think is the best value for a mid-sized business when it comes to laptops and network hardware? Any brands or specific models you swear by?

Appreciate any advice!

This post was edited by ahmadleo on Oct 16 2024 06:13am

if you value your work not being stolen by american 3 letter agencies then would avoid anything with an Intel CPU that is backdoored through Intel ME (management engine) and cia, nsa or whatever are the only entities on this earth with custom intel chips without the remote backdoor
would also avoid any cisco appliances as they are also backdoored and not to forget they built the great firewall of china so fuck cisco big time as well

for firewalls / routers would do through pfsense: https://pfsense.org
is opensource operating system, u can do your whole network infra through it, on any desktop computers, can add 10GB/s RJ45 and 10GB/s SFP+ networking cards
then do the infrastructure of the network with redundancy and whatnot with load balancing, LAGG and whatnot, then add in the switches and whatnot
great 2 network designs with redundancy in mind: