Re: What is a business laptop?

"i'm good" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 'a business laptop so doesn't come with much extra software'. IBM don't
> appear to want
> to put in software such as WinDVD Producer. I've looked at a lot of laptops
> on the web and in newspapers.
> I thought the R series was closer to what I wanted. (15" screen). And the
> R52 has the less
> spectacular X300 graphics card, while an S2 has a X600 or something like
> that.

Well...most reviewers are morons with their own agendas, likes, dislikes, $$$
pressures (ads...how do you think computer rags make their money...)
R-series is OK if you don't travel much. T-series is great in both stationary and
mobile environments (and they also have 15" screens - FlexView is awesome...)

As an aside, I myself prefer only OS on factory utilities on the computers I buy for
business - different users have different requirements, so if you need
"WinDVDProducer" go and buy it - I don't give a flying hoot about it, so why push it
on me..? In business you keep a standard drive image anyway and load it on user
machines on as needed basis. Dell and other lesser outfits just love to load their
"business" laptops with a ton of useless crap that needs to be deleted or
reconfigured. I used to work for a biiiig outfit with several thousand laptop users
and pretty much the only reliable manufacturer who would not force their crap on us
was IBM (and Fujitsu-Siemens to a lesser extend.) Toshiba was cooperative in this
respect, too, but price-to-quality ratio was/is just not there.

Oh, one more thing - we used to disable all external peripherals, ports, drives, etc.
due to security constraints... Now, this is not a biggie anymore ('cuz you can play
with user policies in Windoze) but back in the day, the ability to order machines
without any ports other than RJ45 was critical and a sure sign of a business-class
laptop...

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