Assuming both are laptops and you don't have some insane personal computer - you should seriously examine why your workplace is skimping on a few hundred dollars extra on a machine that might save you, an employee with a salary in the tens of thousands (or higher) a few days of waiting for things to load, render or compile a year.
There certainly is a logic around not wasting money where it'd do no good - but companies that are tight with employee capital expenditures make me really nervous. It's a thing I've avoided consciously in employers since my thirties - if you don't value me enough for a decent keyboard, a chair, and a sufficiently performing computer - then you don't have anyone who is sane at evaluating RoI at your upper echelons.
My work computer and personal computer may be roughly on par as far as the spec sheet goes, but my personal computer does not have McAfee, so it's at least 100 times faster.
No, both are desktops; and I work at computer engineering department of a (not so research-focussed) state university as an academic, with my specialisation being low-level software engineering; not at a software company. Even lab computers are not so better than my personal computer, except for the supercomputing lab.
There certainly is a logic around not wasting money where it'd do no good - but companies that are tight with employee capital expenditures make me really nervous. It's a thing I've avoided consciously in employers since my thirties - if you don't value me enough for a decent keyboard, a chair, and a sufficiently performing computer - then you don't have anyone who is sane at evaluating RoI at your upper echelons.