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Portable or powerfull

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Shago

Limp Gawd
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Hey people

I can choose between the following devices:

Portable
HP Elitebook Folio 9470M
specs

Things I like about this one:
Portability, looks, materials used, backlit keyboard, battery lasting time

What I dislike:
Possible limited performance because of ULV, screen, no tenkeys, intel 4000 graphics

Powerfull
HP Probook 6570b
specs

Things I like about this one:
Tenkeys, higher performance cpu, dedicated gpu, screen, battery quality, dvd (just in case)

What I dislike:
A bit chunky and less portable, battery doesn't last as long, plastic build.

Why these two?
The school I'll go to can sell these at descent prices.
Both cost € 951 with Windows 8 PRO, Office Pro 2013, Theft insurance and 3 years of HP on site next business day warranty.

Use
Will be for education (computer science)
 
Probooks are nice and will last a while, also upgrade-able if ever comes a time to swap parts to give it that future proofing. And they are better built than the ultrabooks. The ultrabooks are metal/carbon material for a reason.

The foolio is nice, buddy of mine has one. But for actually doing work on, Ultrabooks suck in my opinion.....and Probooks have a docking station as well....so that's always a plus to plug-in-play.

You could check out the samples at best buy and see which ones you like. Or if money isn't much of an object for you at this moment, buy both and return which one you don't care for. Probooks are not light, but are not heavy. My last IT gig was HP platform and we used 6460b's and they were not hard to hold open with one hand while configuring stuffs...
 
Thanks for the quick reply.

The dock was a big plus for the probook untill I saw that the Folio had one aswell.

I haven't got a Best Buy in my country but I'll check out the laptop division of my school to compare.

This laptop will be used for at least a year so the possibility to swap the dvd drive with a 1TB HDD is a bit better than just an mSATA expansion port on the Folio

Another problem I'm having is that in retail the Folio costs about € 1500 and the probook € 1200 yet the school charges the same amount for them. It would feel like I'm still paying too much for the probook ^^.
 
Shago said:
Another problem I'm having is that in retail the Folio costs about € 1500 and the probook € 1200 yet the school charges the same amount for them. It would feel like I'm still paying too much for the probook ^^.
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Probook has more pro's than con's vs the ultrabook.

So you'd actually be paying less, due to the expand-ability of the probook :) IE; upgrading memory, upgrading dvd drive (or using it, vs not having one with the ultrabook). Adding another battery pack, or hard drive as you mentioned.
 
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