"The corporate market pays between $3,000 and $5,000 dollars for laptops that are more rigorously tested but the technologies are essentially identical to those in the less expensive consumer lines, which are priced at $2,000 to $3,000".
"We've broken disk encryption products in exactly the case when they seem to be most important these days: laptops that contain sensitive corporate data or personal information about business customers," said Alex Halderman, a Ph.D. candidate in Princeton's computer science department.
They have grown up with the freewheeling internet and do not suffer boring black corporate laptops gladly.
Parents of teens are still using corporate laptops to download music and games for their kids, and employees visiting social networking sites are volunteering disturbing amounts of information without hesitation, again on company laptops.
In a direct challenge to Apple's premium-laptop dominance, Panos Panay, corporate vice president for Surface at Microsoft, said at Microsoft's education event in New York: "We built a laptop that's beautiful, but it's beautiful because it's personal.
It's a laptop that inflates!
"The reality is that there are a number of consumer devices that provide services that you just don't see in a corporate laptop, and employees just enjoy their computing experience more".
The Kindle goes online using Sprint's 3G cellular data network — the same service that costs $60 a month for corporate laptop luggers.
The once very corporate laptop brand starts by adding some spice to the outside with a black glossy cover.
The last two-week vacation they took was in 2001, and Ms. Clarke, a corporate marketing consultant at Brainerd Communicators in Manhattan, worked through most of it on a laptop that her husband jokingly nicknamed "the beast".
