Originally Posted by
emcampbe
As far as I am aware, you're statement is not quite correct.
The laptops you mention that are exempted are specifically listed as "personal computers" and then goes onto specify "for their [member's] own personal use while on business trips. I always took the "personal computer" mention to mean a laptop you own. I always understood that a company laptop - i.e. one that is given to you by the company you work for to use - or if you were using your own personal computer to do work for a company, then that would be considered a "commercial good," and therefore, would require waiting in the normal line.
I don't know the level of proof that you need, however I can give you anecdotal evidence that a corporate laptop would not be considered a commercial good.
I cross the border almost weekly and usually have my corporate laptop with me. I have been sent to secondary a few time going into the US and a few times coming back to Canada. I have had my laptop bag searched (my laptop has a prominent sticker on it that says "property of XYZ company") and nobody has questioned it. I've carried wireless routers to setup an FTP server for document distribution at meetings and they have never questioned it. When my original Nexus Air was changed so they could be used at land crossings I used to declare that I had a corporate laptop but early on I was told by an agent that I didn't need to declare it.
From a purely observational perspective, look at the people using the Nexus lines. Most of them will be business travelers and almost all of them will have a laptop used primarily for business and many of them would be corporate owned.