Business laptops are for example the Lenovo T series which have traditionally offered maximum performance, usability and reliability over gimmicks like design and entertainment components (f.ex. speakers or RGB keyboards). This will also go for available support. This is another market for the manufacturers. Here they want to please the business owner / the IT support department, as they are the ones picking the vendor. The actual user has no say about which machine they get. So glitter and gold on the casing and useless components will have no purpose.
On consumer laptops, manufacturers are appealing to average Janes and Joes most of whom won’t know the difference between a CPU and a GPU and perhaps believe that more MHz on a processor is always a better processor. Such consumers usually make their decisions completely differently and I won’t even try to guess how. But I’m sure that aesthetics, gimmicks, cool stickers and catchy parameters will play a bigger role (i.e. all the DoubleBoost, Xtra, Ultra, 2-in-1, Super catchnames).
That’s not to say that you cannot get good value with a consumer laptop but it’s more of a lottery.
In general: yes.
Business laptops are for example the Lenovo T series which have traditionally offered maximum performance, usability and reliability over gimmicks like design and entertainment components (f.ex. speakers or RGB keyboards). This will also go for available support. This is another market for the manufacturers. Here they want to please the business owner / the IT support department, as they are the ones picking the vendor. The actual user has no say about which machine they get. So glitter and gold on the casing and useless components will have no purpose.
On consumer laptops, manufacturers are appealing to average Janes and Joes most of whom won’t know the difference between a CPU and a GPU and perhaps believe that more MHz on a processor is always a better processor. Such consumers usually make their decisions completely differently and I won’t even try to guess how. But I’m sure that aesthetics, gimmicks, cool stickers and catchy parameters will play a bigger role (i.e. all the DoubleBoost, Xtra, Ultra, 2-in-1, Super catchnames).
That’s not to say that you cannot get good value with a consumer laptop but it’s more of a lottery.