Myth of the "business class" notebook

well I currently have roughly a dozen cf-30's out for business execs and they sure love em. and hey those 8 pound bricks are more of a head turner then those wimpy little fashon accessories alot of laptops have become.

but hey you probabally have to know your business exec though, some of them are VERY particular

 

I'm with you on that one. While my shoes take a beating, I won't exactly wear hiking boots to the office.

 

This is a great thread!

I'm having a bit of trouble understanding exactly what "business-class" means. I know, of course, on some level it is an arbitrary marketing concept that helps sell laptops to large corporations, but I've heard this term frequently and I'd like to know whether there is a general consensus on what it means.

I worked several years at the int'l division of a Fortune 500 company where we were all assigned thinkpads. I assumed it had something to do with the networking and security features. Then I started up my own company with some partners and here we use a mix of mac and windows machines.

From looking over these posts, I take it there are four different factors being discussed that have something to do with the concept of "business class," but seem to be quite independent of one another:

(1) the build quality of the internal components, or the likelihood that a particular laptop won't fail prematurely

(2) the quality of the external design materials used (i.e., metal vs. plastic), less keyboard flex, etc.

(3) security and corporate networking features

(4) customer service and tech support

Is this correct, or am I completely misunderstanding the concept.

 

you have all 4 points correct, although business class notebooks and DTR's will sacrifice aesthetics for performance and reliability every time.

a good business machine has a MUCH lower cost of ownership in rougher environments and daily bumping around than a consumer/prosumer laptop.

WOW did we ever dig up an old thread

 

Yeah, please don't dig up such old threads... if you've still got a related question/comment, just make a new one.

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