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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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icky_boo t1_jbppasy wrote

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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pseudocultist t1_jbqc4ng wrote

Also consumer laptops come with Win 10 home and these Dells come with 10 pro.

I am switching a small business over right now to Dells enterprise line. They thought the cost was steep too, but I pointed to the stack of a dozen physically broken consumer grade laptops they’ve gone through, and the cost to relicense their machines Windows, and the warranty. And now they see the light.

Worth noting you can get last years models for like 60% off through Dell Premier so really they’re not that much more at all. And their sticker price is like 2x what things actually cost through Premier. So a $6k laptop might be $1500 to the company.

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FalloutNano t1_jbqy68f wrote

I do wonder how people break so many laptops.

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JC-Dude t1_jbsd23d wrote

Employess don’t take care of company property because it’s not their property. Hell, some people can’t even take care of their own shit, let alone something lent to them.

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Swastik496 t1_jbrkhys wrote

The prices are high because sending a tech within 4 hours to wherever the hell you happen to be when something gets fucked is expensive.

The prices are high because confining to use obsolete parts that have to be sourced from “sketchy yeti manufacturing company” because the enterprises imaged for them is expensive.

The prices are high because these machines are paying for themselves every hour with the amount of value produced for the company and most business would happily pay many times their cost for them. Supply & Demand

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