Some might be lucky enough to get a laptop with some warranty remaining. Bloatware is the name given to extra, non-essential software applications loaded on your laptop.
More often than not, they are loaded because they are seen as an often dubious added value and well, because the laptop vendors get paid for doing that and often get an extra amount for each conversion for example going from the free version to the full version. Bloatware can carry significant privacy and security risks.
Business laptops simply don't have as many because their audiences are not only more savvy remember a lot of those laptops will go through the IT department first but bloatware can also have a negative impact on future sales. The race to produce thinner and lighter laptops in the consumer market meant that every vendor focused on integration with upgradability and maintenance being, more often than not, an afterthought.
Business laptops in contrast, tend to put manageability at the top of the feature lists. Most, in fact, require you to take off only one screw to open the chassis and swap components.
That allows IT departments to do repairs quickly, reducing downtime, or allowing engineers to proceed to repairs on the client's premises without having to take the whole thing back; the main parts memory, storage, communication, battery are usually user replaceable allowing for quick upgrades. Even cheap business laptops tend to have better warranty than consumer ones with a one year onsite next business day warranty being fairly common.
On more expensive models, a three-year onsite warranty is the norm with extensions available to prop that up to four or even five years, with some offering it across Europe, India, the middle east and Africa.
On the other hand, laptop manufacturers like HP usually operate a one-year pickup and return service for their consumer models with no options available for onsite warranty. It offers the same performance, a similar screen, excellent battery life, and user-upgradable memory. Its larger size also gives it room for more ports—including a microSD card reader and an Ethernet port—than the EliteBook. We tested the nit version. The L14 has ports for just about everything, including ports that smaller business laptops have.
And like the EliteBook G7, the L14 has user-upgradable memory that you can expand as your needs change. You can configure the L14 with a fingerprint reader, a face-scanning IR camera, or both. The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 combines the larger screen, sturdy construction, and repairability of a business laptop with the size and weight of an ultrabook.
And while the slim profile makes it nicer to tote around, there are a few ports missing that some of our other picks have, like an Ethernet port and an SD card reader. Its slightly scooped, not-quite-square keys provide satisfying travel and are firm without being stiff, and the backlight is bright and even. It has two USB 3. You can also use either of the Thunderbolt 4 ports to charge the laptop or to connect high-end accessories like external graphics cards. The X1 Carbon is easy to repair and upgrade—remove five Phillips-head screws, and the bottom panel pops off easily, exposing the battery and SSD.
The detailed service manual PDF can walk you through replacing just about any other major part, in the event that you need to do out-of-warranty repairs yourself. And whereas most business laptops are larger and heavier than most ultrabooks, the X1 Carbon is noticeably lighter than the 2.
All X1 Carbon models come with a fingerprint reader embedded in the power button, and you can add a face-scanning IR camera, too. The following otherwise decent business laptops had at least one flaw that separated them from our top picks.
It weighs 2. Battery life is the best reason to consider the EliteBook x The laptop lasted nearly 20 hours in our tests, long enough to survive multiple workdays without our plugging it in. If you value battery life more than you value weight or screen size, the EliteBook x may be an appealing alternative to the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. Dell also announced some updated Latitude business laptops at CES , including the high-end Latitude which launches in the spring and the midrange Latitude which launches in January.
Their main benefit over current models is updated 11th-generation Intel Core processors, which should provide better performance graphics performance, in particular compared to current 10th-generation processors.
For our latest round of testing, we skipped laptops with older, eighth-generation Intel Core processors or AMD Ryzen —series processors. Older T-series ThinkPads were our main picks in this guide for years because they were more upgradable than the X1 Carbon yet cost less and still included high-end perks like Thunderbolt 3 ports.
But the X1 Carbon is still the better all-around package. Below you will see practically the same image but with the color circles representing the reference colors and the white circles being the result. We tested the accuracy of the display with 24 commonly used colors like light and dark human skin, blue sky, green grass, orange etc.
The next figure shows how well the display is able to reproduce really dark parts of an image, which is essential when watching movies or playing games in low ambient light. On the horizontal axis, you will find the grayscale and on the vertical axis — the luminance of the display.
On the two graphs below you can easily check for yourself how your display handles the darkest nuances but keep in mind that this also depends on the settings of your current display, the calibration, the viewing angle and the surrounding light conditions. Pulse Width modulation PWM is an easy way to control monitor brightness. When you lower the brightness, the light intensity of the backlight is not lowered, but instead turned off and on by the electronics with a frequency indistinguishable to the human eye.
You can read more about that in our dedicated article on PWM. Installing of our Health-Guard profile not only eliminates PWM but also reduces the harmful Blue Light emissions while keeping the colors of the screen perceptually accurate. You can find more information about that in our dedicated article on Blue Light. You can see the levels of emitted blue light on the spectral power distribution SDP graph. Since our profiles are tailored for each individual display model, this article and its respective profile package is meant for HP EliteBook G4 configurations with If the download target is a.
Read more about the profiles HERE. Dieses Profil zielt darauf ab, durch Beibehaltung einer flachen Gammakurve 2,20 , einer nativen Farbtemperatur und wahrnehmungsgerechten Farben eine bessere Deutlichkeit und Klarheit zu liefern. This profile is aimed at designers who work with colors professionally, and for games and movies as well. Health-Guard simuliert Papier, so dass der Druck auf die Augen stark reduziert wird.
The current specs sheet refers to this particular model — configurations may differ depending on your region. Check price Processor Intel Core iU 2-core, 2. To be honest, we are not expecting anything less than excellent battery endurance from a high-end business laptop but the HP EliteBook G4 shows impressive energy-efficiency for a inch laptop.
Probably the main reason for such long battery runtimes is the TN panel, which is less power-hungry than the IPS alternative. Anyway, the battery is rated at 51Wh, which is more than enough for a business-grade inch laptop. In order to simulate real-life conditions, we used our own script for automatic web browsing through over 70 websites. Surprisingly, the video playback test returned a higher than usual score — minutes 11 hours and 17 minutes.
Storage: GB. Size: Weight: 2. Reasons to avoid - Expensive. HP EliteBook G7. Reasons to avoid - Weak graphics. Display : inch, p. Weight: 3 pounds. Reasons to avoid - Slow file transfer speed. HP Elite Folio.
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