How to Review a Rugged Laptop
Forbes editor Brian Caulfield talks about his now famous Toughbook 30 review on KNTV’s press:here…
Posts Tagged ‘failure rates’
Deploying Mobile Technology in the Service Bay
Today, service bays are experiencing a significant trend – there is a shortage of bays to accommodate a growing number of vehicles needing repair. As a result, dealerships are forced to do more with less in order to stay competitive with aftermarket services and bring in profit. Many are turning to technology – sophisticated diagnostic [...]
Throw the (Net)Book at Laptop Failures
Last month I started a Toughbloggers discussion about a recent PCMag.com article that showed approximately 22 percent of business laptops require repair on an annual basis and, yet, people seem to view these high failure rates as acceptable. Well, a new study by Squaretrade shows, once again, alarmingly high failure rates for notebooks and—not surprisingly— [...]
What Laptop Manufacturers Don’t Want You to Know
For years we’ve been hearing that sales of laptops have been outpacing desktops, and that our workforce is becoming increasingly mobile. For laptop manufacturers, this is obviously good news – the demand for our products is growing and will continue to grow. Unfortunately, for the end user, laptop reliability is not growing at the same rate [...]
Clinicians Going Back to Their Roots Through Mobile Technology
I recently came across in interesting article in Healthcare IT News, “Health calls thrive with IT,” reporting that the number of medical house calls is steadily on the rise thanks to innovations in information technology. According to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the number of house calls paid by Medicare has increased by [...]
Have You Considered TCO / ROI?
I recently came across the CIO Insight study, “Top Hardware Spending Priorities for 2009,” which found that 79% of companies are budgeting for PCs in 2009, despite the overall slowdown of I.T. spending. If your enterprise is considering purchasing a mobile PC, it’s critical to consider Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return on Investment [...]