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icky_boo t1_jbppasy wrote

Reply to comment by ThatDinosaucerLife in Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive by dapperlemon

We don't care about the price jack up because what we are paying for is the warranty and quality of the machines, consumer grade machines simply DO NOT LAST in the office work place, We consider the tax write off as a bonus.

You stick to your idea that everyone is in it to scam etc but until you actually work in a office that has to deal with 1000+ business machines you'll never understand. I used to be a naive end user consumer like you til I got into the business world.

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icky_boo t1_jbpovjd wrote

Reply to comment by hellcat_uk in Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive by dapperlemon

This is EXACTLY right.. companies have images for this exact reason , downtime costs our company around $10k a system a day on each laptop we have (we've got around 1000 end users and around 1300 machines). This is why we have 100 spare Dell's in storage and just re-image them as soon as we have a issue then deal with the broken one later then put that one into storage.

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ThatDinosaucerLife t1_jbpo8r5 wrote

Reply to comment by icky_boo in Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive by dapperlemon

Businesses are consumers.

The prices shouldn't be jacked up "because it's a tax write off", because the money is still coming from somewhere. It doesn't just disappear because you "wrote it off". The prices are this high because it's a grift, and "businesses" are run by dummies who don't know how to fight back against consumer exploitation.

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TheIllustrativeMan t1_jbpo6qg wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive by dapperlemon

Yeah I've owned 2 'modern' Thinkpads, and both have been well worth the premium. First one never had any issues, still works today, including the locking keyboard (OG Thinkpad Yoga). Second one did have an issue, but they overnight shipped a replacement motherboard to a tech who replaced it on-site the next day, for $0.

Combined they're nearly 20 years old and still trucking, which is amazing considering the abuse they've received. If Lenovo could figure out the whole stylus thing, I'd love to get a Thinkpad tablet/foldable.

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hellcat_uk t1_jbpi3iu wrote

Reply to comment by icky_boo in Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive by dapperlemon

Also to factor in is that they won't suddenly start shipping with different hardware. If I build a OS image for one model, I can order that model all around the world and deploy the same image without finding the NIC has changed and the drivers I've bundled don't work. They also will provide updates for bug fixes and security vulnerabilities in drivers and firmware. You're lucky to see more than a couple of bios updates with consumer level laptops.

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gambiting t1_jbph7wr wrote

Reply to comment by mrblaze1357 in Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive by dapperlemon

Exactly. I have a top spec precision 7670, if you went on Dell's website that spec would cost you about £7500. I know as a fact that our company pays around £3800 each for them. Business pricing is where these products make sense. And also they know that literally no one else on the market offers this spec so if you really need 128GB of ram and a top spec GPU then you kinda only have one option(or a custom laptop builder, but no large corporation is going to buy laptops from them).

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icky_boo t1_jbpfnga wrote

Reply to comment by DirkMcDougal in Dell’s Latitude 7330 convinced me that business laptops are too expensive by dapperlemon

These laptops are NOT meant for consumers. They are aimed at businesses that can afford it because of the warranty. We use them at work because there's a 3 year onsite warranty which means someone will come with either a replacement machine or to repair it within 4hrs of us logging a issue. This is what you are paying for.

Businesses also can afford it because it's a tax write off and they replace the machines after warranty expires anyways.

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