What is this? A bunch of anemic consumer grade laptops and a couple of gaming laptops? Why aren’t they providing business grade laptops as options? This seems like a really odd list. Is this what their IT department has recommended? Is this provided as a recommendation for you to purchase for yourself? If you’re supposed to buy your own laptop at your own expense I understand but I’d recommend since it’s your own money that you buy something better than anything on this list.
My personal go to, and what I put into policy is Lenovo Thinkpad. T and P series are great. There’s a price premium but in general I know they’re going to survive 5 years and most often more. I have a 7 year P series and 5 year old T480s sitting on my desk that I still use though I recently just transitioned to a new T14. If you are going with Dell, Inspiron is consumer grade but Latitude is a decent business class laptop. These recommendations look the part, they’re not flashy but they’re sturdy. Common points of failure on consumer grade laptops are the hinges and the top case breaking away because the plastics are cheap and can’t handle the long term stress of opening and closing and flex through the unit because they aren’t sturdy enough. If you really want an HP, I used to approve ProBooks as they tick most of the boxes for long term durability though I stopped using them at one point because in my last org we experienced a high rate of premature battery failures. Sorry for the wall of text but I don’t feel like formatting.
What is this? A bunch of anemic consumer grade laptops and a couple of gaming laptops? Why aren’t they providing business grade laptops as options? This seems like a really odd list. Is this what their IT department has recommended? Is this provided as a recommendation for you to purchase for yourself? If you’re supposed to buy your own laptop at your own expense I understand but I’d recommend since it’s your own money that you buy something better than anything on this list.
What would you recommend?
My personal go to, and what I put into policy is Lenovo Thinkpad. T and P series are great. There’s a price premium but in general I know they’re going to survive 5 years and most often more. I have a 7 year P series and 5 year old T480s sitting on my desk that I still use though I recently just transitioned to a new T14. If you are going with Dell, Inspiron is consumer grade but Latitude is a decent business class laptop. These recommendations look the part, they’re not flashy but they’re sturdy. Common points of failure on consumer grade laptops are the hinges and the top case breaking away because the plastics are cheap and can’t handle the long term stress of opening and closing and flex through the unit because they aren’t sturdy enough. If you really want an HP, I used to approve ProBooks as they tick most of the boxes for long term durability though I stopped using them at one point because in my last org we experienced a high rate of premature battery failures. Sorry for the wall of text but I don’t feel like formatting.
Seconded. My ThinkPad T470 is still my daily laptop.
HP EliteBooks are also great. NOT ProBooks.