Laptops
All brands have 3 broad product lines in laptops. Consumer | SMB | Commercial.
- As the name suggests, Consumer laptops are primarily designed to address consumer requirements – Music , video, internet surfing ,basic usage etc.
- These would further have subcategories like Basic, Premium, Gaming, Light weight etc.
- Due to cost effectiveness, most companies embark on their IT journey with consumer laptops.
- Corporates too offer consumer laptops to their entry level staff.
SMB Laptops :
- 1 step of upgrade from the consumer laptops is the SMB products.
- All brands have laptops specifically attuned to SMB usage
- The build quality is relatively better.
- Options of OS – Windows SL, Windows Prof and DOS ( giving the customer the flexibility of loading OS of their choice )
- They have options of warranty upgrade to 3 years and ADP ( accidental damage protection )
Business Class Laptops
- It is recommended that corporates / enterprises buy business class laptops – Thinkpads from Lenovo | Probook from HP | Precision from Dell
- The build quality is much superior to other categories
- These have further sub categories based on the profile of the user / software to be run / security features required etc.
- Options of OS – Windows SL, Windows Prof and DOS ( giving the customer the flexibility of loading OS of their choice )
- They have options of warranty upgrade to 3 years and ADP ( accidental damage protection )
- Options of priority support
- Options of 5 years warranty