Do you use your personal laptop for work?

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Published on 2011-03-09T03:41:39Z Indexed on 2011/03/09 8:18 UTC
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We're trying to get our company to let us use our own personal laptop for client work. We've agreed that any code/data will be encrypted using something like TrueCrypt, in case the laptop is stolen or lost.

However, the company is still skeptical and not sure they want to allow us to use our personal machines for development. They would rather buy us laptops... but we want to use MacBook Pros and they don't want to pay for them. Even if they did buy us laptops, we would stil have the issue of needing to encrypt the code/data in case of theft/loss.

Do you use your own laptop for work? What are the arguments for/against this?

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