The difference in cost between Business machines and Home machines can be prohibitive, but what are the differences?

There isnt a one size fits all answer to this as some companies are quite happy to label a machine in any way they choose! Furthermore our opinion of some of the website reviews we have seen are misleading and in no way comparable to our own findings.

To be fair and to remain as neutral as possible we will not be making a list of brands we wouldn’t touch. This may sound ominous but then it would be unfair to list a brand as bad just because a few models don’t make the quality grade.

This is a short list of models we have seen over the years. 

Our opinions are based solely on our service calls so we would advise getting second opinions from other I.T proffesionals who also have no affiliation to a particular brand.

Brand	Model Type	Business/Home	Support service	Notes
DELL	Inspiron	Home	Good	Very good all round personal laptops. Few maintenance issues
DELL	Latitude	Business	Excellent	Excellent quality builds. Very few maintenance issues
HP	Pavilion	Home	Average	Poor to Average, (graphics burnout, older models) capacitors, battery
HP	Pro series	Business	Good	Excellent
Lenovo	na	na	na	Previously IBM Thinkpads but without the absolute quality IBM gave us
Samsung	na	na	na	Often highly rated but we have experienced above average failure rates