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I had the same thought. My presumption would be that laptops are inherently personal, since the whole point is to take it with you, whereas you could hand off a
by lukifer 14y ago
I had the same thought. My presumption would be that laptops are inherently personal, since the whole point is to take it with you, whereas you could hand off a desktop to an underling and make them work it for you.
- csense 14y agoFrom the article, it sounds like the laptop marketers were targeting top executives, presumably because (1) they travel a lot and (2) they have command of a big enough budget to spend $8K of company money on a tech toy. For those who don't travel, it would have been difficult to justify the greater expense.