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Sure, but executives can be swayed by a shiny new sticker on the box.
by jayd16 1y ago
Sure, but executives can be swayed by a shiny new sticker on the box.
- raw_anon_1111 1y agoExecutives since the dawn of buying computers for companies only care about buying the cheapest computers with reasonable support contracts.
- reaperducer 1y agoExecutives since the dawn of buying computers for companies only care about buying the cheapest computers with reasonable support contracts. If that was true, the various computer companies wouldn't spend billions on advertising to C-suite types, and fleets of salespeople to woo them. Executives since the dawn of buying computers Clearly you weren't there, or you'd know executives paid extra for the IBM brand because "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM."
- raw_anon_1111 1y agoI am not saying the company is going to buy a big sales contract from Acer. But they aren’t trying to outfit their secretaries with top of the line computers. They are going to go to Dell and buy the cheapest thing that will meet their needs - barely.
- pjmlp 1y agoI have had given laptops with regular HDD for consulting work back in 2018, when SSD were already mainstream, because the company in question was using refurbished hardware for contractors. Ah, they also only had 8 GB, dual cores.