Laptop security precautions make users nuts. It all comes down this plaintive cry: “Why can’t I connect?” Or perhaps the better question is, why isn’t it easier to connect? Between passwords, screen locks, complicated procedures to log onto virtual private networks and the risk of getting booted off an “insecure” Wi-Fi connection, well, it’s not [...]

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Laptops are either too large which causes users to complain about lugging all that extra weight around or they’re too small, which means no one can type on them. Finding a happy medium seems to elude many IT organizations.
Harvard Business School offers both standard and three quarter size laptops, but CIO Laster says his users [...]

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Laptops spawn a new breed of uber-entitled user. Fay really hates the fact that his users watch TV. Those glossy ads of people effortlessly using laptops in a diner, or on a mountaintop or while driving, all give his users ideas. Bad ideas. Ideas that make them expect that they can be online anywhere and [...]

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The challenge of configuring laptops for wireless connectivity, and keeping them up to date, is probably the single biggest nightmare IT professionals face daily, they say.
IT must decide which air cards to use, and if they’re going to employ encryption or set up a VPN, and if so, for which employees and under what circumstances. [...]

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Bob Vesely , IT manager at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle has a simple reason why he hates laptops: They’re easy to lose. Luckily for Vesely, the number of laptops he oversees is small, around 40 or so. But Vesely nevertheless tries to guard them zealously, because in his organization, a lost laptop affects [...]

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Stay on the worst of laptop, they’re tough to fix, and they die young. Laptops last, on average, three to four years as compared to the healthier four to five years of the average desktop, according to IDC. Even worse, anecdotal evidence indicates many truly mobile laptops never make it past the 2 to 3 [...]

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The first place laptops get damaged is on airplanes, according to our highly informal survey of support managers. That guy in front stretches out, jams the tray table down and smashes the nice new laptop in the process.
“A lot of these laptops are assembled in China, and let’s face it, they are flimsy,” says Long [...]

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In this article we didn’t say that IT had to like Laptop. Here we present, in no particular order, the top 10 things IT professionals absolutely hate about laptops. And yes, we did have to edit down a very long list.
Battery life still bombs.
Battery life has long been the Achilles heel of laptops, and even [...]

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Damaged. Lost. Stolen. Too big, too small. Insecure and unreliable. And just plain annoying. If you’re in IT, there’s just not much to like about laptops.
To be sure, portable computers have changed the way business operates, so much so that we literally cannot imagine a work life without them. That said, IT professionals, whether they’re [...]

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