Re: A tragedy of errors continues
Nah, a shitload of businesses, particularly at the SMB end, use consumer laptops and hardware.
Seriously, most business users don't want (or need) to spend £800 on a magnesium chassis'd ultrabook and don't value next business day replacement because of the extra cost - something plastic with 4gb of RAM and an i3 is all they want for Excel, why spend £500 when £300 will get it done? Next day replacement? Just buy six instead of the five you need.
This is not at all unusual when you don't have a formal IT budget and you tend to replace hardware every five years or when the old stuff starts failing.
I'm not saying it's necessarily sensible, but it's what happens outside of the enterprise space, all the time.
Steven R
Biting the hand that feeds IT
