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On the hardware side the race-to-the-bottom with prices really made it much harder to find good computers that weren't built like toys. That's a consumer-orien
by scholia 11y ago
On the hardware side the race-to-the-bottom with prices really made it much harder to find good computers that weren't built like toys.
That's a consumer-oriented view. Dell, HP and Lenovo continued to supply solid business laptops and portable workstations. Some were even ultraportable, including the ThinkPad X series and Toshiba Porteges.
Not sure why you think "the PC guys didn't target that market very hard" since they had more than 90% of the market. But if you were just watching the consumer market, perhaps you didn't notice?
- MBCook 11y agoWhen I still used PCs I bought/used business PCs (and laptops). While they were better than pure consumer models, they still had a lot of the same issues and design decisions.
- scholia 11y agoI'm tempted to ask "Such as?", but your experience is more than a decade out of date, so I'm not sure why anyone would care ;-)