Re: What is a business laptop?


"eM eL" <badbatz99@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "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

It's just that so many seem to have it and IBM pointedly don't, and a
reviewer
would say, it's a business laptop so it doesn't come with that. It's seems
like no big expectation to take
my brother's video camera and make a DVD copy out of it, however that could
be done exactly.

I'm also worried about purchasing the 3 year warranty from IBM. I haven't
seen a price for it,
yet often do for Toshiba and HP. I just don't feel that IBM
want me to buy their computers. Large corporate buyers would be preferred.
It's like a bank
that tires of small customers.

- 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...

Thanks for that bit.
>
> --
> ><eM eL><
> Somewhere the Sky touches the Earth, and the name of that place is the
End.
> --African saying.
>
>


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