CONSUMER DESKTOP

A desktop computer is a personal computer designed for regular use at a single location on or … personal home computers launched in 1977, which were aimed at the consumer market – rather than businessmen or computer hobbyists.

BRANDS/VENDORS

• Acer
• Apple
• ASUS
• HP
• Lenovo

CONSUMER NOTEBOOK

Consumer laptops are inexpensive and plentiful, but a business class laptop offers features that generally aren’t found in notebooks meant for consumers. Extended warranties, durable designs and conservative styling are hallmarks of business level machines.

BRANDS/VENDORS

• Acer
• Apple
• HP
• Lenovo

COMMERCIAL DESKTOP

In computing, the desktop metaphor is an interface metaphor which is a set of unifying concepts used by graphical user interfaces to help users interact more easily with the computer.^] The desktop metaphor treats the computer monitor as if it is the user’s desktop, upon which objects such as documents and folders of documents can be placed. A document can be opened into a window, which represents a paper copy of the document placed on the desktop

BRANDS/VENDORS

• Acer
• Dell Optiplex
• Dell Vostro
• Fujitsu
• HP
• Lenovo

COMMERCIAL NOOTBOOK

Consumer Notbook are inexpensive and plentiful, but a business class Notbook offers features that generally aren’t found in notebooks meant for consumers. … Initial costs for these features and extended service plans mean that business Notbook usually cost more than consumer Notbook..

BRANDS/VENDORS

• Acer
• Dell Vostro
• Dell Latitude
• Fujitsu
• HP
• Lenovo

COMMERCIAL WORKSTAION

A workstation is a special computer designed for technical or scientific applications. Intended … for instance IBM used RISC-based CPUs for its workstations and Intel x86 CPUs for its business/consumer PCs during the 1990s and 2000s.

BRANDS/VENDORS

• Apple
• Dell
• Fujitsu
• HP
• Lenovo

THIN CLIENTS

A Thin Client is a lightweight, fan-less computer that doesn’t have a hard drive, but connects to a server to perform its computing. Thin Clients access hard drives in the data center by running Remote Desktop Protocols (RDP), like Citrix XenDesktop or Citrix Secure Access Gateway which allow virtualized Windows desktops and applications to be delivered as on-demand services.

BRANDS/VENDORS

• HP
• Wyse