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IT's Love-Hate Relationship With Laptops

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the caucophony-of-pleasure-and-pain dept.

Ian Lamont writes "Are laptops really as great as they're cracked up to be? We love their portability, and we've been charting the steady rise of laptop sales for years. Yet while many of us depend on them for work, our IT departments view them with mixed feelings. IT managers point to wi-fi configuration, complicated authentication procedures, and eight other issues as making their jobs a lot harder. What else is missing from the list of laptop limitations? What would you like to see in the next generation of laptop computers?"

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  1. IT == Excuses Galore by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well, IT admins are whiners and would rather not do something that's hard than do something that's effective for the user.

    So, yes, 8 reasons for them to not do their jobs and whine some more.

    Surprise, surprise.

  2. Re:Boo Hoo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Exactly... such admins must be a bunch of incompetent sods.

  3. Re:Boo Hoo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Exactly... such admins must be a bunch of incompetent sods.
    You misspelled "MCSEs".
  4. Re:Clunky but cramped. by TheMidnight · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20071016.html