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Best mobile workstation 2015
Few productivity decisions are more important and, in turn, nerve-racking than selecting the right mobile workstation for your employees.
Making the wrong choice could mean saddling your employees with a bad computer. So what do business owners look for?
A great display, computing power and exceptional battery life without breaking the bank. There are few mobile workstations that can do this and we've rounded them up here.
- If you'd prefer a Best Desktop Workstation roundup, we've got you covered.
Lenovo ThinkPad W550S
With understated aesthetics and a durable design, there is much to love about the ThinkPad W550s (starting at $1,133, £765, AU$1,455), if you can afford it. Long battery life and a large, high resolution display keeps you productive longer while you're mobile. Plus, the docking port allows users to take the ThinkPad W550s back to their desks to use as a desktop replacement, given its strong performance.
Read: Lenovo ThinkPad W550S review
Dell Precision M6800
This monster laptop impresses with its power and versatility
This Dell model is an impressive, niche product and Dell's biggest and most powerful business notebook pricing in at $3,490 (around £2,075, AU$3,750), almost double the price tag of some of its rivals. To make up for the hefty cost, Dell has packed this laptop with every feature a professional will need on the road. The chassis is built from aluminum and magnesium alloy, and build quality is top-notch with no give on any surface, as well as dust and extreme temperature resistance.
Few employees will truly need the versatility and power offered by this Dell, but if they can justify the investment, it truly excels in every important area. Overall, the M6800 is clearly built for business, from its hard-wearing chassis and versatile exterior to its high-quality keyboard and powerful professional components.
Read: Dell Precision M6800 review
HP ZBook 17 G2
A truly fantastic mobile workstation for your business
The ZBook 17 G2 mobile workstation ($1900, £1250, AU$2400) is a ferocious laptop built to withstand any task you throw its way. This 17.3-inch laptop is built with a three-spindle wedge design that shifts most of its hefty 7.42 pound weight toward its thick backside (1.57 inches). The ZBook features a dark grey plastic chassis that is surrounded by aluminum that covers the top of the display and houses the keyboard. Performance is where this machine shines. The ZBook crushes Lenovo's ThinkPad W540 in every category we test, especially on the Cloud Gate graphics and physics tests, as well as on SkyDiver and FireStrike.
Read: HP ZBook 17 review
Dell Precision M3800
Dell has produced one of the best Windows laptops available
This Dell breaks the construct that if you want a high-end laptop capable of running processor-intensive software as well as a desktop can, you have to expect it to be as heavy as a Lenovo ThinkPad system. Instead, the M3800 ($2236, £1397, AU$2569) is exceptionally powerful and portable, fitting a Haswell-based Intel Core i7 processor, and Nvidia Quadro graphics card, up to 16GB of memory and both an SSD and hard disk into a chassis that's just 18mm thick and weighs 1.8kg.
Read: Dell Precision M3800 review
Lenovo ThinkPad W540
A top-notch 3K workstation with a top-shelf price tag
This is a workstation powerhouse, with the downfall of being possibly too expensive for general office use at $2,573 (about £1,606, AU$2,946). The W540 is a mobile visual studio built on Lenovo's platform of ThinkPad workstations. With a 15.6-inch, 2880 x 1620 (3K) resolution IPS display and a high-end 2.7GHz Intel Core i7-4800MQ processor with a Nvidia Quadro K2100M graphics card, this machine is ready to tackle anything from simple word processing tasks to thousand page spreadsheets and even heavy 3D modeling.
Read: Lenovo ThinkPad W540 review
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