Hey, so my mum is a small business owner and does a lot of her work on her laptop, which she has always complained about being crappy (very slow startup, takes forever to open a program even something like mail, terrible battery life etc.).
She recently has decided to put some decent money into a laptop for her work and has asked me to find something good, only problem is that i don’t really know whats good and whats bad when it comes to laptops.
That being said i have made sorta a list of what this laptop should have.
Good battery life (i have told her that she can also prolong the actual life cycle of her battery by never continuously charging overnight or past 100 percent)
SSD Storage, flash storage or fast storage (she stores work on google drive so doesnt need a tonne of storage)
Does she do anything that requires a lot of computer horsepower like CAD, or is it more just office productivity stuff?
If it's office productivity stuff than I think something along the lines of an ultrabook would probably work fine. Maybe something along the lines of the Lenovo Thinkpad E560 would be good as well.
If it's for heavier applications, than she'd probably want something with a Quadro in it, and that means it will get real expensive real quick.
DELL Latitude E7450/7470 or any other laptop with something along the lines of a high-end ultrabook processor (like an i5 5200U+) with SSD based storage. They usually come with around 256GB SSDs.
That assumption was based on the information you have given us, my recommendation could change easily if there was more to look at.
The extra information you would need to include only you would know, so from what I see here, Workstation ultrabook like what I recommended in my previous post.
What about a Dell XPS 13 with Skylake processor? I'm referring to the one with FHD display, i5, 256GB SSD and 8GB of ram. I don't know if battery wise is a monster but surely is pretty good and will last a day if not aboused.