Looking for a durable, powerful, portable, business laptop that can last? We help you winnow down your choices with the 5 best business laptops today.
Finding a great laptop for work is serious business. After all, you need something that's durable, secure, powerful, light, and can last through an intercontinental flight. With the countless options available, it can be a daunting task to find the perfect one. Fortunately for you, we have already found the five best business laptops on the market today.
For the budget-conscious business person who needs power, portability, and a long battery life without breaking the bank, the Toshiba Portege R835-P88 is a laptop that offers portability and performance for under $850. This 13-inch ultraportable comes with some—gasp!—an optical drive for those who feel like they still need one, as well as performance that can go up and beat the nascent ultrabooks. And with its long battery life, it's certain to last you through a long business flight.
Another moderately-priced business laptop is actually an ultrabook. The HP Folio 13 is a sub-$900 system that sports an immaculate design, and features a solid-state drive, 13.3-inch, 1,366 by 768 resolution display, and performed competitively on our benchmark tests.
The 5 Best Business Laptops
There are, of course, professionals who put a premium on performance rather than portability. For them, a run-of-the-mill business laptop just won't do. What they need is a powerhouse like the HP EliteBook 8560w. This mobile workstation is packed to the gills with powerful components like a quad-core processor, ISV-certified, heavy-duty graphics, and such security features such as an embedded TPM security chip, a smart card reader, and HP ProtectTools.
Apple holds its own against Windows-based business laptops with the Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch (Retina Display). The big draw is the brilliant 15.4-inch, 2,880-by-1,800 resolution Retina display, which is a boon for photographers, art directors, and video editors. Add to that a 2.3GHz Intel Core i7-3615QM (Ivy Bridge) processor and Kepler-based Nvidia GeForce GT 650M discrete graphics, and you have a laptop powerhouse, especially when it comes to 3D and media processing.
An ultraportable laptop that should be on your short list is the Lenovo ThinkPad X230. 1.05 by 12.01 by 8.13 inches (HWD) and weighing only 3.39 pounds, the X230 is light enough to tuck under your arm or into a laptop bag. The 12.5-inch display is bright, with wide viewing angles and no glare thanks to a matte display with In-Plane Switching (IPS) technology. The third-generation Intel Core i5-3320M dual-core processor helped the X230 top other ultraportables in processor-intensive tests.
So there you have it, five laptops that will definitely get you working. One of them is sure to be good for (your) business.
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