Need assistance in deciding on a work related PC

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Captain_Yuri said:

BasilZero said:

The company is providing me with these computers and they are the ones who selected the models.

I'm not too familiar with tablets as I've never had a tablet before lol but I know what Surface is and what it supports (from my job from best buy years ago but I'm sure a lot has changed since then).

Well here is my thinking. Since this is mainly for work, I suggest getting the surface pro 4 Only if it is the model with an i5 + 8gb of ram but at a minimum of an i5. Core M is not very good at handling many tasks and i5 will just be better for the long term and 8gb of ram is also sweet. From the few I have researched, the Surface has the most amount of battery life out of the products you have stated lasting around 8 + hours with wifi surfing. And yes, that is on the i5 model.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9727/the-microsoft-surface-pro-4-review-raising-the-bar/7

Where as the E6540 will last you 6.5 hours, Dell E5440 will last you 8 but it has a bad display, E7240 will last you 4.4 hours, E6330 will last you 6.5 hours. All of them are according to notebookcheck.net

The Surface also has the best display, SSD and plenty of other things. It doesn't have a dvd drive though but it is smaller than the others at 11 inches. So I would say the Surface 4 Pro i5 + 8gb model if your company is paying for all of them. Unless you think you are going to need some of the other things like a dvd drive and etc and don't want to buy usb accessories for them.

But let's look at it from the IT job perspective though.

Battery life is meaningless. Image quality is negligable, as is size. What you need is flexibility, which is connections.

I work with a Latitude 6530 myself. The keyboard on that is godly btw.