In one sense I don’t see it as a big to-do. If you can still get a 17.3” laptop with an i9 or Xeon, 64 Gb or more of ECC RAM, a few NVMe SSDs and a Quadro or Fire Pro GPU I really wouldn’t care what it’s called. if it’s called a Precision or Pro Max Premium makes no difference.
But on the other hand, I see this as the continuing of the dumbing down and bastardization of electronics and computers as a whole. Companies will continue to copy Apple in order to seem cool and this is no different. Who cares about Apple? A 13 year old girl is not going to want a Dell Pro Max because it has the words ‘Pro Max’ in it. She’ll want a laptop with a fruit on the back so she can look stylish and cool and ‘think different’ so she can be like everyone else.
Apple is nothing special they just tapped into the market of making people feel more important than they are because their overhyped, overpriced iCrap is seen as a status symbol. I’m not going to win any cool points for my Pixel phone or HP ZBook, nor do I care. I’m not a self-centered prick screaming look at me, look at me, see how cool I am.
As an HP guy, their nomenclature is very simple.
Pro = Standard Business, Elite = Premium Business, Z = Pro Workstation
For laptops, First Digit = Series, Second Digit = Screen Size, Third Digit = CPU. 0 for Intel, 5 for AMD
Followed by a G for generation and then the number of what generation it is.
You know exactly what you are getting or where to start when doing a CTO.
At work we recently got a pallet of Dell Optiplex 7010s. In looking up to see where you can find the settings I need to change prior to imagining in the BIOS I got nothing but information about the Optiplex 7010s from the 2012/2013 time frame. Kinda dumb they are reusing the same model number a decade later.
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