08-16-2006, 02:19 PM
Mike Wrote:you must be naive, any coroporate discount would also apply to any other manufacturer who would love to get an order for 16,000 laptops and a huge support deal, so IBMs would still be the most initially expensive to buy. These decisions are all made about the numbers, and apparently the long term cost savings on a IBM machine is worth the initial cost.Evan Wrote:As a data point, Booz Allen buys IBM laptops for all of its 16,000 employees, and since they are the most expensive laptops, there has got to be a reason.
a reason? somebody at the top likes them or they get a great corporate deal. doesn't have to be any more reason than that.
And 1 model of a bad drive doesnt mean they all suck. Maxtor has had many more bad models than IBM has. Ive lost 2 maxtors (weeks apart from each other) and never lost anything else.
I will say good things about the high end Dell Precision laptops. We took them into military field exercises full of dirt and crap being tossed around and they held up great (at least in the short term)
However Dell's standard line in my experience have been flaming piles of shit.
And dont get me started on Sony...