Lufthansas laptops are OK. Dunno bout giving up a day off. What happens when they need upgraded Right thats another day off, more memory another day off?
Laptops can be aquired for very little money by companies, its tax deductable. There are potential cost savings. But there are significant reasons against as well.
On the other hand, paper performance/ops books are hard to break, less likely to be stolen and if you spill your coffee on them they are easy to dry.
They also dont catch viruses from the porn mag in you flight case.
Which is another point. Most companies partition the hard drive so that there is all the company info, performance, ops manuals etc on "C" and "E" is free for personal use. However, there is an issue of liability. Lets say you use your "private" bit of the hard drive to store your illegal MP3 downloads. Then the laptop breaks, back it goes to the company for repair, the repairer reports you to the copyright theft people. So who is liable for the music/films/animal sex mpegs? Its not as clear cut as it first seems.
THen you have to deal with those who refuse to take or carry the laptop.
"its not in my contract" "I dont want to be responsible"
Do you stop in hotels, anticipate having 5% a year stolen from hotel rooms. Then you have to deal with who pays.
Another option is to supply 2 to each aircraft. YOu will need to install a locked steel box in the cockpit as they will go walkies otherwise. However
if you have 20 aircraft then thats 40 laptops rather then 200 if you issue them to individuals.
As for "top notch" remember moores law, They will be scrap in 2 years BYs laptops look like they were used by Noah to calculate his performance pre flood, hmm "captain I can see its a WET runway but what do I put in the option for Pairs of Elephants"