[mjevans]

Yes, but the MBP costs what like 1800 while the Windows laptops corporate is willing to buy often cost around half that or less?

Some of that is surely profit, but some does seem to pay for engineering and part selection of things and methods that don't suck and don't self destruct 2 months past the warranty end date.

[mardifoufs]

Most Lenovo business laptops (thinkpad x/p series) are just as expensive as MacBooks for a business buyer. Maybe the E series are cheaper though.

Though I agree that a lot of employers seem to not even bother with a business line laptop anymore so ThinkPads or MacBooks are out of the question. I'll never understand cheaping out on laptops though. It's an even more bone headed move than not offering drinks or coffee at the office, because employees having to use cheap laptops as their 40h a week tool is just going to hurt the business. That's not even considering the support burden that comes with having a fleet of bad or slow hardware

[bsg75]

> Yes, but the MBP costs what like 1800 while the Windows laptops corporate is willing to buy often cost around half that or less?

Yes, also why the corp waited on those Lenovo orders rather than switching some developers to Macs.

[chris11]

And telling IT to support a new operating system company wide could be an expensive decision.