Best Business Laptop under 2k

jblake1986

Wondering what everyone believes the best business laptop is currently. I feel like a necessity is a SSD, lightweight, and good battery life.

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Kinet1c

Another vote for a retina MacBook Pro, would be lost without mine in work.

tpatt100

Coworker got the new Dell XPS 15, he really likes it. It's a pretty nice laptop.

XPS 15 Laptop Available with 4K Ultra HD Touch Display | Dell

NetworkNewb

tpatt100 wrote: »

Coworker got the new Dell XPS 15, he really likes it. It's a pretty nice laptop.

XPS 15 Laptop Available with 4K Ultra HD Touch Display | Dell

dang those prices seem expensive for the specs, I guess those touch screens aren't cheap!

tpatt100

Ok they must have eliminated the non touch version because the version he has isn't touch.

Balantine

I did a hackbook HP Probook 4540s last year (Mac) and really like the fact that I get a touchpad and a normal keyboard so I can use Windows apps in Parallels. Total cost was about 900 including SSD, RAM upgrade, wifi card, magic trackpad etc.

Don't forget that there are not only Macbook Air and Macbook Pro, but also regular Macbook. If and when regular Macbooks get Retina and the new force touchpad and the ability to drive a 5K external monitor I'll probably go with one.

NetworkNewb

The Surface Pro 4s are rumored to support up to 16gb of RAM and 1TB flash drive. Also, come in 12" and 14" sizes...

We'll find out tomorrow! I'd love to the buy the 14" one with those specs (if they are true), I just bought a new laptop earlier this year though

DoubleNNs

Balantine wrote: »

Don't forget that there are not only Macbook Air and Macbook Pro, but also regular Macbook. If and when regular Macbooks get Retina and the new force touchpad and the ability to drive a 5K external monitor I'll probably go with one.

The Macbook already has a retina screen and force touchpad.

It might even have the ability to drive 5K external monitors... if the software and hardware exists to interface with such monitor via USB-C.

Edit/Reference: http://www.apple.com/macbook/

tpatt100

My wife bought the new Macbook, she likes it but when I use it I can tell that speed was compromised quite a bit to get it that thin.

NetworkNewb

That new Microsoft Surface Book looks pretty sweet...

tpatt100

Yeah it looks like they improved the keyboard as well. I like the biometric keyboard and pen color choices (I am a sucker for color choices)

Oh wow the Surface Book is what I would have preferred instead of the Surface Pro 3

http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/6/9454051/microsoft-surface-laptop-announced-specs-price-release-date

no!all!

I really like the Lenovo T440/450

tpatt100

Man this looks nice, I won't buy a first gen product but next year if I am in the market for a new laptop and Microsoft releases a new version I might get a Surface Book

Surface Book | Windows Central

NetworkNewb

I would probably want the top end Surface Book and I don't think I could stomach spending $2700 on a laptop... Someday...

scaredoftests

no!all! wrote: »

I really like the Lenovo T440/450

I just got the 450S. I like it.

DoubleNNs

The T440s was trash. Bad year for Lenovo.
The T450 seems decent tho.

kohr-ah

uuuggghhh.... Now I want a surface book. I just dont wanna pay that coin for it.

TheProf

Man that surface book looks good... I think I am going to wait a bit before buying though... Hopefully if there are issues with the hardware, they will iron it out before I buy one

inscom.brigade

At my job they gave me a Lenovo 451 with 32g mem, a docking station, 2 24" AoC monitors, and a Logitech keyboard.
I have no complaints so far, battery life is not as good as some others. I don't know what the HD is but ity comes right on when I open it. The IT department did a pretty good job, only a few goofs from them I have to fix. they installed 32 bit MS office 2010, so when I added Viso I could not add 64bit..

karl88

For business class, go HP EliteBook/ProBook or Dell Latitude/Precision. I tend to favor Dell. Dell hosts their service manual for just about all their laptops. This is a huge convenience if you need to do a repair.

Lenovo has gotten worse. IBM made the good ThinkPads and designed some of the ones labeled Lenovo. At work, we have Lenovo for the laptops. Their placement of the Fn key to the left of the Ctrl key is one of the most retarded things I've seen. As someone who uses a lot of keyboard shortcuts, this drove me crazy. You can swap these keys in the BIOS though. It's a shame business laptops are now using media keys. They removed the NumPad markings. To those that say they wipe the OS, it doesn't matter. They already embed spyware into the BIOS, but I'm betting other manufacturers do this, too.