Is there a better alternative?

If you have the budget and you’re in the market for a business laptop, then we’ll recommend you take a good, hard look at the Dell Latitude 7400 2-in-1. You’ll get a more solid build quality, a slightly smaller chassis even given that it’s a fully-functional 360-degree convertible 2-in-1, and some of the longest battery life we’d tested. But you’ll pay for it, at $2,489 for an equivalent configuration – and you won’t get a discrete GPU.

　　If you’re not worried about the business software that ships with the laptop, then you should take a good look at the Acer Swift 3 14. It offers similar performance, better battery life, a more robust build quality, and it, too, has a discrete GPU if you need it. It’s also less expensive, at $1,000 for a Core i7, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD – note that you will have to give up some storage space, but you save a hopping $500.

　　Finally, you can consider the Lenovo ThinkPad T490. It’s a bona fide business laptop of its own with the same military standards testing and a more solid build. It offers the same privacy guard for the webcam, and you’ll spend the same $1,500 for a Core i7, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD. Once again, though, you’ll have to give up the discrete GPU.

　　

How long will it last?

The TravelMate P6 boasts testing to military standards, and so you’ll have to take Acer’s word for it that its flexible display won’t cause problems down the road. The components are relatively up-to-date (although with Intel’s 10th-gen CPUs right around the corner, that’s becoming a dubious statement), and it has enough connectivity that you should never run out of ports. The 1-year warranty is particularly disappointing for a business-class machine.

　　

Should you buy it?

No. There are better business laptops you can buy. In fact, the TravelMake P6 doesn’t offer so many business perks that a consumer laptop can’t do in a pinch.