The versatility of a laptop has helped it stand out from all other kinds of computers. A few years ago, business houses and offices had bulky desktop computers. They have all been replaced by thinner, smaller laptops. Corporate houses are getting populated more and more with portable computers which has further influenced the growth of professional laptops. Among the glitz and glamor of powerful gaming laptops, there thrives a market of computers built around productivity. We look at two powerful professional laptops that would see you through all kinds of work.  

 

 

 

 Lenovo ThinkPad T470  

 Price

Rs 132,000  

 

 ThinkPads are known to be professional busi­ness-grade laptops, and from the outside, the T470 looks sleek and classy. It features the ThinkPad style, no nonsense aesthetic, and smooth black rectangular shape with a nice luxurious feeling soft-touch mate­rial on to the outside. Unfortunately, the material does not cover the insides of the laptop where the soft-touch material would have done wonders for my palm. Staying true to the professional aspect of the laptop, it comes with powerful specifications: a Core i5-7200U paired with an ample 8GB of RAM.

 

It also comes with an unimpressive dedicated GPU from AMD, the Radeon M330. While the graphics chip has enough horse power to run a few moderate games, don’t expect it to run the latest triple A titles. What does work in the laptop’s favor is the hybrid battery system with an inbuilt 3-Cell battery, but also a removable battery caddy with additional 6-cell bat­tery. With a total of 9-cell worth of power, the laptop can run off the battery for over 17 hours. That’s much higher than the MacBook Pro’s 16 hours. The laptop also comes with an exceptional keyboard, probably one of the best out there. The keys have decent travel and are responsive enough to help improve your typing speed. But the audio and the display are two aspects that works against this laptop’s favor.  

 

 

 

Dell XPS 15

Price

Rs 155,000  

 

 

 Dell’s new XPS line is truly impressive with a stunningly bright and vibrant ‘Infinity Display’ that minimizes the bezels around the screen on the laptop. Truly, the XPS 15’s screen is brilliant with almost a 100 percent coverage of sRGB and Adobe RGB color tones, a feature that enable creatives to work on the laptop with astounding color accuracy. The laptop is also very powerful on the inside, pow­ered by a Core i5-7300 HQ processor, 8GB of RAM and 256 GB of SSD Storage. And it comes with an impressive and powerful GTX series graphic card, the GTX 1050. With such a powerful graphic processor, the laptop has plenty of power even if you wanted to game on it.

Gaming performance aside, the XPS 15 is a pow­erhouse when it comes to productivity. While the earlier laptop might have been suitable for more resource efficient work, the XPS is tailored for power hungry tasks such as video editing, photo editing and 3D modeling. The laptop also feels exception­ally premium with a nice carbon-fiber finish and a decent keyboard. The trackpad has excellent tracking and gesture support through Windows Pre­cision drivers. If you want a laptop with the power to handle all of your resource heavy programs, the XPS 15 is a great choice.