Business laptops

[wolf_bluejay]

Strange, the one thing that always comes up when buy laptops -- what are the staff going to use it for.

Were I work we only have a few hundred laptops, but it generally goes like this:

If you are travelling a LOT, and need something that will stand up to a bit more abuse -- the thinkpad stands up well for getting acutall work done on a full size laptop.

IF you are mobile all the time (road warrior) and just need to check email, and do a bit of work, the acer asipre or other netbooks are a favorite as they are small and get really good battery life, but they are NOT powerful enough for doing CAD work and anything like it.

If you just need a laptop for the occasional trip and going to/from work and home, the CHEAP acer's are good enough. These are the vast majority of our laptops.

Of course, with that said, with the way our department (IT) works, we never actually use any 3rd party support, so the quality of support from dell/acer/IBM doesn't really factor at all.

Originally Posted by Aquattro

We do have a few Mac users, but I'd guess it's 35000 Windows PCs to maybe 100 Macs?

Wow, that is a lot of machines! It is rare for me to run into anyone that deals with the number of machines as me , let alone more. I guess this is where I get to rub our linux setup in a bit. -- Last week, I pushed out about 200 software updates to 3000 machines at over 40 sites, and that was during morning coffee. I always love to jest fellow IT people over that one