Yep, what JPA said.
Just one thing to add. When the audit script retrieves the form_factor field from WMI, this is not necessarily consistent. I've seen notebook, laptop and docking station in there. If your laptops are all the same brand they will likely be reasonably consistent and you could alter the Group definition and probably be OK.
Personally I prefer the first approach. Manually marking them. Combine that with activating and checking the "Unclassed Computers" Group. Any computer you have not manually assigned a class to will automatically show up in there. Run a details report, sort by something appropriate and bulk edit. I used this approach on a database containing over 7,000 systems and it was quick and painless. You simply need to keep an eye on the Unclassed Computers Group and assign any as they appear in it.
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