icky_boo t1_jbppasy wrote on March 10, 2023 at 7:36 PM

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.

pseudocultist t1_jbqc4ng wrote on March 10, 2023 at 10:07 PM

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.

FalloutNano t1_jbqy68f wrote on March 11, 2023 at 12:49 AM

I do wonder how people break so many laptops.

JC-Dude t1_jbsd23d wrote on March 11, 2023 at 9:32 AM

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.