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This job has given me a Dell laptop, I had a Dell at my old job as well. I wouldn't think there would be much difference between laptops these days, but these Dells are so heavy and have terrible battery.
I've had a HP previously and that was quite nice, but it seemed like a high end model. And I've also had thinkpads which are just reliable and the battery lasts forever by comparison
We have Lenovo laptops and I love mine.
They're no frills and just work. I wish they kept them more open so you could upgrade them more
I would love if laptops had upgradeable parts. I get why GPU's are hard, but let me upgrade the CPU!
Vostro I'm guessing? Yeah my order of preference is Lenovo > Dell > HP. But their "Entry level" it Vostro, Ideapad and Pavilion are all truely dogshit. HP have NO business being in the corporate space with their laptops.
I deal intimately with a very large fleet (ie. thousands) at my workplace, mostly Dell Latitudes & Precisions, HP EliteBooks and Apple MacBook Pros.
I agree that HP have no business being in the corporate laptop game these days. Absolute garbage.
We use HP Elitedesk micro PCs, they're pretty great. We don't use HP laptops - so whoever is making hardware decisions at work clearly agrees with you on the laptops.
My wife has an HP Elitebook from her work. No idea if it's any good, but she hasn't complained excessively about it.
I'll need to check. It's not an Inspiron, it's larger and has this carbon fibre look that just smudges and wears immediately
Dell are weird. They work all ends of the market - with awful cheap laptops and really decent expensive models.
I think this hurts them, personally - as people who have been issued a garbage laptop come away thinking Dells are heavy and have terrible battery.
I promise there are good Dell laptops. Your job obviously hasn't given you one.
I doubt when businesses are buying fleet laptops they go for the good ones.
The HP I had made sense for the department I was in. It had a built in privacy screen you could toggle with the fn keys
It depends on the business. At the sorts of places I work, $3k for a reliable laptop is well worth it. The business loses more money in lost productivity by having its employees unable to work than saving a little money in the short-term.