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Grayscale · 10-10-2008, 07:58 PM

i know, but what i am saying is... why not take a hint from "the people who know better"?

businesses put a lot of thought into cost effectiveness, when it comes to technology a huge part of this is reliability and longevity. these decisions, at least with something like which laptop brand to use for employee laptops, are then vetted through hundreds if not thousands of trials. let's say 6% of HP laptops have a hard drive crash after 2 years, while only 4% of IBMs, that would be a difference of hundreds of units across a large business, something that the support department would definitely notice.

edit: sorry if im pounding your "just wanna pink laptop" into a pulp, but a few years from now id rather you be a girl with a pink laptop, rather than a girl with a pink laptop and 200 Gb of lost storage, or girl sending her pink laptop in for repair every few months.

there is nothing cute about having your crap break after the warranty expires

edit2: i take my technology a bit too seriously

edit3: all of this is in reference vs. consumer targeted models, by the way.

10-10-2008, 07:58 PM	#9 (permalink)
Grayscale you'll get over it Join Date: Dec 2007 Type: istp Posts: 1,949	i know, but what i am saying is... why not take a hint from "the people who know better"? businesses put a lot of thought into cost effectiveness, when it comes to technology a huge part of this is reliability and longevity. these decisions, at least with something like which laptop brand to use for employee laptops, are then vetted through hundreds if not thousands of trials. let's say 6% of HP laptops have a hard drive crash after 2 years, while only 4% of IBMs, that would be a difference of hundreds of units across a large business, something that the support department would definitely notice. edit: sorry if im pounding your "just wanna pink laptop" into a pulp, but a few years from now id rather you be a girl with a pink laptop, rather than a girl with a pink laptop and 200 Gb of lost storage, or girl sending her pink laptop in for repair every few months. there is nothing cute about having your crap break after the warranty expires edit2: i take my technology a bit too seriously edit3: all of this is in reference vs. consumer targeted models, by the way.