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I haven't noticed that pattern. for example my ₹30,000 Lenovo works fine but ₹50,000 HP doesn't.

$465 and $775 aren't exactly cheap and premium.

Premium lines usually start at $1000 ~ $1200.

That would correspond to HP's ZBook or EliteBook lines. They do have genuine 2x2 multi-antenna setups. There's nothing "Pro" about a $775 "ProBook".

Lenovo makes more business-oriented laptops in general, but the Ideapads are definitely their low-end (and come with 1x1 antennas - found at least one with a single antenna and dual-band wireless chip [1]). The Thinkpad T-series portables or W- (now P-series) workstations are definitely the way you want to go. And they do have genuine multi-channel Wifi solutions.

[1] - http://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Export/20170710/110449747/id...

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