Originally posted by: makken
Originally posted by: Trippytiger
Originally posted by: inhotep
"business class" lol got the marketing in your head?
There's a pretty distinct difference between laptops targeted towards the average consumer and those targeted at business users.
How many of your precious non-branded notebooks have magnesium casings, modular optical bays, Trackpoints, docks, fingerprint readers, embedded security features, active hard drive protection, or three year warranties?
My T42 had all of those. I define a business class laptop as having most of the above features and being marketed towards large business and corporations.
A lot of 'consumer' laptops already have many, if not all, of those features.
I think business class is more about the accessories, dock support, and no nonsense design.
and to imhotep, no it's not all marketing. I've NEVER seen advertising for business grade laptops. If there is an ad, it's always centered around the consumer lineups.
Well that's because major companies like IBM don't need to put adds on TV and newspapers so everyone can see how good ther servers are or how secure a T series is, when you are in a position such as IBM's you are considered a mastermind in business, ppl come to you if they are intrested, you don't go to them. But as the case is for ppl like Dell they are just icky, they are all over the place like attention whores they need a customer from a cloud, there ads and coupons are floating all over the place...etc. Why ? Well they just don't have enough quality in their products to attract enough customers.
And to clarify it to others, ppl think that IBM's embedded security system is worthless, well ofcourse because as a personal user you may not have use for them, but that's not how buisnesses look at the situation, if they have laptop and somebody is using it to develop a project, a SH!T load of money is in risk in case any info was leaked due to the theft or loss of that laptop, and here is where IBM's security features kick in, as follows.
1-The laptop can't go beyond post due to the password setup in BIOS.
2- Let's say whoever stole your laptop was able to bypass the BIOS issue, well good, windows loads and before you get to the login screen you get a screen from IBM asking you for a fingerprint scan and a passphrase, your screwed.
3-You decide to remove the harddrive and hook it up to an exact thinkpad from which the hdd was extracted, oops NO GO !! Why ?
The embedded security system includes a chipset that encrypts your entire harddrive specifically for that exact unit, no way that harddrive well get the encryption broken without the original unit , and the original unit is useless due to the protection it already has on it.
4- You decide that you might try a little bit more , a little bit after that, the door bell rings, who is it ? The police !!!!
What do they want, they came for the laptop and you.
How did they find you well thanks to the tracking software that IBM supplys buisnesses they are able to locate the laptop in coordination with the local law enforcement, and return the laptop to the company untouched.