Update: Due to lack of AMD laptops in all budget have started to check intel laptops but they are still not 100% recommended like the AMD ones. What I said below still applies.
Stopped recommending all Intel Laptops 100% as of Aug 2025. Lot of issues with those CPUs from heating, high
power, instability and most importantely due to oxidatoin issues earlier and the attitude of company on the
desktop CPU side puts the long-term
usage of these laptops into question.
I will add Intel laptops when a certain price range has no AMD or Mac or Snapdragon alternatives(Yes, I
am going to look into those too but they are for very specific people only.)
Even if everything magically fixed itself, the high heat, high temps, high power are still a trouble on
laptops that are meant to run on battery.
Further Note: Intel CPUs due to higher temperatures have become unstable and causing the system to
crash. Undervolting sounds like a solution but it's not confirmed if it's actually a soltuion or merely a
patch which is what it feels
more like instead. And even if you can get the temperatures down on the Intel CPUs, the oxidisation issues
of the 13th and 14th gen CPU have shown that Intel doesn't want to give your warranty support which means
they won't give it to
laptop brands also and you will end up swapping motherboards after motherboards if you have warranty and you
will never be sure when your machine might die.
Why I keep telling people to get ADP and not just extended warranty or normal warranty
Due to:
No real law in India so companies tries to blame cusomter for manufacturing defects or things that you migt even not have done just so that they don't have to fix/replace it for you.
No interest in these foreign companies to even try to train engineers or call centre people so that they actually know what they're doing or talking about. They just give it to some third party Indian company that does so very cheaply and have no sense of how to behave with a customer.
Why this matter?
Because either they can unknowingly(remmeber they are untrained) damage your machine or tell you something on call that is either very frustraating, time consuming or at times, actually damaging which you might do. Example: Lenovo Engineer Breaking Display, Applying cheap low quality thermal paste insetad of the pre-installed PTM which lasats very long, and a lot more.
If you were looking to buy from a compnay in India that actually hires and trains people here, this is the actual reason, not some propoganda bullshit like China Bad, Pakistan Bad which our News Media sees every day.
Hard to find parts. Arond 2023, when I visited Nehru Place, Delhi to fix my old Acer laptop, every shop told me the same story:
Dell, HP & Lenovo are easy to find parts for, Acer and Asus are very difficult.
Forget MSI, Gigabyte and other brands at all.
General:
Fuck the sales/discounts/savings. Focus on the laptop.
I have been recommending laptops to people for decades now(Yes, even before youtube) and what I have seen again and again is the fact that in the pursuit of getting the best deals, people don't check what they're buying is even worth buying or not.
Many people have bought an Acer Nitro V or some other shit gaming laptop only because it suddenly dropped in price and they got it just because it had a spec never before seen at the given price point and they completely forget to check if the model they are buying is even suited to their use case or not.
Many people who got Acer(yes, there is a reason Acer keeps coming up here) from flipkart/amazon from where Acer doesnt' give extra warranty or ADP found that a year later something has went horribly wrong and now they need to spend a large amount just to get the laptop working. Don't take my word for it, check the negative reviews on Amazon(Flipkart usually doesn't allow updated negative reviews).
BTW, even Dell has started to do the same thing with Aurora 240H 5060 where it's just an absolute horrible laptop but
Don't delay buying a laptop if it's for career growth(college kids especially)
Too often I have seen kids waiting upto a year just because they didn't get the laptop at the lowest price that someone else said they did and they want the absolute best deal. The problem with this approach is that they keep waiting and waiting, they forget that time is something you can't get back and try to convince themselves that they can just go by without a laptop even when they desperately need it.
I don't recommend gaming laptops for gaming.
A good laptop should be able to sustain long workloads at the maximum perforamnce for a long time and those who think it's not something they might need, I can tell you from experience you will be surprised with how much a powerful system can do that a simple one can't. There are things that you haven't even realized yet.
Such laptops are called workstation laptops. You can see a few from Asus, Dell, HP & Lenovo.
If you checked those links, you will be surprised to see the huge costs of those machines for a decent new hardware, and that's where gaming laptops fit in.
Gaming laptops are strongly built machines that can run heavy load for long just like the workstation machines and in fact even in corporate world, brands have started to see that they were being ripped off because they were using workstation machiens and actually have started to use gaming laptops instead especially after pandemic when they started to realize that they can make more money with less people in offices.
Now about entertainment:
FUCK GAMING AND FUCK ENTERTAINMENT IN GENERAL.
This is a creation machine. You learn skill from this or use it in your life to generate income right away or improve your current income. It is more clearly a money making machine and wasting that time on entertainment(Yes, gaiming is entertainment no matter how many reserach you bring me about hand-eye coordination and strategies).
Careful who you take advice from especially YouTubers
What happens with YouTubers who buy the products for review, especially if they are making a lot of
money is that they don't think about it and maybe their rich audience especialy if they are targetting
the rich outside India mainly, they
make some assumptions that you might not made for example:
They assume that if something breaks, you will simply replace it. Macbooks are fragile machine but
they are being recommended all the time is because they know someone buying a Macbook will just buy
another one if it breaks. Check
online negative reviews of Macbooks and you will see the trap these people fall into who bought it
because it was highly recommended.
Hey, they might be good machines but the expectation here is that if it breaks, you will simply
buy new.
They assume you have good air conditioned room and environment for running the laptop.
Why do you think all the tests are done at 21°C in an AC with clean air? It's because that's
what they live in all the time.
Wherease you might use the machine in a high heat, high humditity, dusty environment and the
performance will go down significantly if there is so much restraints or the fans will simply choke
up and you will keep on wondering
why your system is running so hot all the time and why it keeps stuttering with even simple loads
later.
With International YouTubers: Unlike the lawless country like India, Law means something there so
putting, "Warranty Void if open" stickers or trying to put the blame warranty help on the customer
will get them sued. In India, it is very common for brands
to refuse you any warranty even for manufacturing defects by saying it was somehting you must have
done(one of the reason I keep shouting, get
ADP in my videos all the time.)
Most influencers follow dark stuff which means they don't care what
happens to the machine long term. They need to review a machine and be done with it as soon as
pososible. Their job is to push you to purchase
and as soon as that's done, they are happy.
Of course no one has the time to get into issues all the time but what I am saying is they might
simply not talk about stuff they might see troubling in the machine or know for a fact that this
will make the machine not last
long.
If you are still not satisfied, search any Acer Nitro V reviews on YouTube and then watch these
two videos: 1 & 2 and you will understand what I mean.
YouTubers learn to manipulate their voice and facial expression to make what you're watching a pleasant experience. The problem is, they do it for everything, even laptops that aren't as good, they can make it sound like that it's actually good.
What you will notice again and again is that the large youtubers often just sound a talk better. You can only judge it if you find someone with low sub count but an excellent deep video.
Note: I have grown up poor and when I keep shouting get a gaming laptop, I expect that this might be
your only
computer at home and you want it to last long. The reason I keep focussing on performance and thermals
so much
is due to this also.
Careful who you give advice to(especially girls) for tech especially in India
Trust:
If the person who you're recommending something doesn't trust you completely and doesn't understand that just because you paid 2 lakhs on a mchine doesn't mean it will always work fine, DON'T REOCMMEND THEM ANYTHING. Let them buy what they want, where they want, how they want.
Non-rich Girls:
Girls will try to agree with you that a powerful laptop is all they want but they don't want anything hevier than the macbook air.
If a girl insists she wants a gaming laptop, force her to visit the store and let her see the charger and the laptop first. Then make her write this on a piece of paper with her own blood:
"I know this gaming laptop is heavy and the charger is heavy too but I want it and I WILL NOT BLAME anyone especially not the person helping me get a laptop if I later decide it's too heavy"
Once she has done that, you can give her a gaming laptop.
Otherwise just take her to an apple store or if she wants a Thinkpad, show her some 14 and 16" E series offline then order them online. Scroll below, they are already here BUT MAKE SURE TO LET THEM HAVE THE MACHINE AND THE CHARGER IN HER HAND ONCE.
Rich Girls:
What I said above still applies. They are no different but however, there might be better options as many brands have started to release 14" thin gaming laptops. I might review them later but the problem of a larger charger still stays with them.
Display:
"No 100% sRGB for Designers unless it's Apple"? says a Photographer
THis makes no fucking sense but a photographer shares his story and why he settled for LOQ and not the Legions.
He said he took his RAW shots to offline shops and tested many laptops to see how the pictuers looked on them and the thing he noticed was that all the premium laptops with OLED or IPS that said 100% DCI-P3 oversaturated the pictures so much that they didn't look right but when he tested the same pictures on budget LOQ (13450HX 4050) one, he said the pictures looked perfect.
Now, clearly a 100 DCI-P3 screen covers a higher color space almost 126% sRGB but the problem happens on windows when they try to show 100% sRGB images on a 100% DCI-P3 screen.
He confirmed the same from his director and he also said the same with the only excpetion of it being an Apple.
To me this made no fucking sense unless I realized how horrible Windows is when it comes to HDR content. If you try to watch an HDR movie on a TV/Monitor sometimes all it does is make the whole color palette gray which I had noticed with my infinix TV. However when I play the exact same file via network share so no Windows is involved, they worked just fine.
I shit on apple a lot but if your work requires Apple, do you even have a choice?
All I am asking is if you are getting a Windows machine for color correct work, please check about these DCI-P3 to sRGB conversion on Windows a bit more.
If I find something more on this, will edit this post accordingly.
Will add a post here and if he comments will pin his comment to
His own words:
Personal Note
This is a personal experience, so results may vary for others.
My Testing Process
I didn’t take RAW photos to offline stores. Instead, I used images that were already edited and colour graded on a properly calibrated system. I tested these across multiple laptop brands — Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, and MSI. I couldn’t check Dell or Gigabyte because there were no display units available nearby.
I had already tested the MacBook Air and Pro (M4 versions). Their colour accuracy was excellent, but the price was the only reason I didn’t consider them further. (I think I forgot to mention this during our call.)
What I Observed
In most laptops with 100% DCI-P3 displays, the colours appeared oversaturated.
The worst results came from the ASUS TUF F16 (100% sRGB) and ROG Strix (100% DCI-P3), both running on Intel 14th Gen CPUs.
• On the ROG, there was a clear greenish tint — even the store staff noticed it.
• On the TUF, colours leaned towards a reddish or magenta tone.
• In both models, gradient transitions looked broken — strong banding was visible, especially in shots with backlight or post-added gradients.
My take: ASUS seems tuned more for gaming. Personally, I wouldn’t recommend them for creative work.
What Worked Well
When I tested the Lenovo LOQ in-store with my photos, everything — colour, saturation, contrast, and white balance — looked perfect.
The Legion series wasn’t available to test that day. However, I did check an HP Omen with a 100% DCI-P3 OLED panel, and while it was stunning, the colours were exaggerated. For instance, I usually avoid using pure black backgrounds in my product shots (my mentor taught me that — and for good reason). I stick to a deep grey, but on an OLED, it looked jet black. When I mentioned this, my mentor advised against OLEDs for photography work, except for Apple displays, which are tuned differently.
My Recommendation
If you do creative work, don’t rely only on specs like “100% sRGB” or “100% DCI-P3.” That just tells you the display’s colour range, not how accurately it’s tuned.
Here’s what I suggest:
1. Edit a few of your photos on a properly colour-calibrated system.
2. Take those photos to nearby brand showrooms.
3. Check how they look on different systems — especially colour accuracy, contrast, saturation, hue, white balance, and gradients.
4. Choose the system that reproduces your work exactly as intended.
In my case, that was the Lenovo LOQ. Yours might be different.
But if budget allows, I’d still recommend going with Apple. Based on my experience — and advice from professional photographers, international judges, and mentors with decades in the field — Apple’s display and colour tuning are simply unmatched.
[To Research] OLED display's long term viability especially on laptops
Non eSports Games are slowly starting to become CPU dependent also like Spider-man and more I will write
here later.
Point is, don't drop the CPU performance significantly just because it gives you something else like in
the Legion Pro 5 Gen 10 AMD which forces
you get an IPS screen
instead of an OLED if you chose a higher performing CPU.
Laptop CPU Performance vs. Power
Power vs. Performance: 9955HX vs. 7945HX vs. 395 vs. 285HX vs. 14900HX
5000 series has shown driver issues, fluctuating performance on the initial drivers and other driver
issues that are common among the desktop cards. This all feels like should be fixed by driver updates so
we can only wait on it.
Lenovo Laptop Brand Mega Blog here Lenovo.com India Laptops Extra Savings which makes Lenovo the only brand to consider in India if you care about getting most value for money.
💩Shit Gaming laptops💩→ Aren't gaming
laptops but try to scam people into thinking they are
These apply to all configuration of the machines. Lenovo LOQ Essentials→ NOT AN LOQ
I didn't even look deep into this when it was announced and I am glad I didn't.
The hinge design is enough in itself to drop these laptops completely as even just moving aroudn
with the laptop is enough to break it and if you say you will use this laptop without moving it around,
why don't you simply buy a PC?
Acer Nitro V series→ NOT A NITRO
Acer keeps trying to sell it's Aspire Series which also sucks(check below this) by using the Nitro brand
to sell it. Nitro is still fine but this is just no-no ever since I first saw the reviews of it.
MSI GF or Thin Series
Non-Gaming Laptops
Thin and Light Laptops - Lighter, lower performance, lasts less than gaming unless a solid build workstation
like thinkpad.
Cautions: VVI
Gamign laptops aren't that much heavier(apart from a few) when comparing with non-gaming laptops.
It's
usually the mandatory charger that becomes too heavy and if you can let go off battery life and can
move
around with heavier weight, please
please please, get a gaming laptop as they are much better value, are much better built and desinged
to
last long while giving consistent and high CPU/GPU performance.
Thinkpads don't come with the 3 years ADP like other Lenovo laptops. Only one year adp at a
discounted
price. You can get it but with Thinkpads as I have said earlier, they are built to last(however the
quality is going down over the generations
so proper review of whichever latpop you buy is still needed. Don't buy it just because it's a
thinkpad).
I want people to get the laptop with numpad and hence the larger 15.6" or 16" and since they are
thin
laptop they don't get much heavy, however I still understand the need for smaller laptops to fit in
the
backpack easily but I said what I
had to. Many people lookover the numpad and realize they need it later. Please be sure you don't
need it
later and only then go for laptops without it.
High battery life reported you see everywhere is with lower brightness and low brithgness mode and
with
almost no applications. Keep this in mind before you pickup a laptop just because it said 8+ hrs
battery
life. Don't beleive me? Check
Amazon Macbook's negative reviews about battery and you will understand. All I am saying is, please
check proper reviews and try to figure out what use case fits yours and might give you a longer
battery
life. Because with some tweaks
even I have got more than 4 hours on my 14700HX
4060 loq and 5 hours on the 10500H 3050 Legion.
Battery Size matters but how little power a CPU can use in low performance mode also matters a lot.
Of
course display and all but CPU effeciency plays a big factor.
RAM: AMD CPU and Windows 11 means you need a minimum of 24GB RAM to function however, any RAM
selection was too expensive on amazon hence buying more from Amazon 16GB minimum was better. However, do compare
the prices yourself if they increase later.
SSD: Only 256GB available, so you have to buy one off of
Amazon anyways as 256GB is unusable. Again, like above, check prices
before making this judgement.
Display: 100% sRGB was the bare minimum, that was the whole reason to even boterh with thinkpads
in the first place otherwise I would have not.
Note: Don't get the touch screen as it's not color accurate.
Windows and Office: Too Expensive on Lenovo. You can use Windows without activating and of
course if you are fine with it, there are other ways to activate it.
Camera, WiFi, Fingerprint Reader, Backlight Keyboard, Charger, better battery: Choose the best
most expensive one mainly because the prices were fractional compared to the whole laptop.
Base Cover Material: Although the Aluminium one is more premium many Indian households don't
bother with the third ground wire in their household so unless you have grounded your home connection,
the laptop body will shock you in which case just get the plastic body.
Thinkapds - E Series: The Cheapest Thinkpads→ Still my no.1 recommendation
The thing with these Thinkpads is that you can find many in sale on Amazon
India from recommended sellers or, Lenovo India for cheap if you can let go off a color accurate
displays. Trying to choose such display is the reason the thinpads below are so cheap.
The following are too expensive: Most Thinkpads are <75k is not
a price I am comfortable with recommending any Thinkpad E series at. This price range should
be for L Series hence proceed with caution.
CPU: 225H is not much more than the 225U so this is the base CPU which is still very very
usable.
RAM (+4k): Amazon has afforable laptop RAM, there was no
point paying Lenovo extra as this laptop has two SSD slots already. This will incur extra
charges later however.
Also, since this is AMD aim for 24GB RAM and higher NOT 16GB RAM
SSD: 512GB isn't much more than the 256GB optoin.
Note: Amazon has afforable SSD if you want to upgrade even
more later.
Display: 100% sRGB was the bare minimum, that was the whole reason to even boterh with thinkpads
in the first place otherwise I would have not.
Windows and Office: Too Expensive on Lenovo. You can use Windows without activating and of
course if you are fine with it, there are other ways to activate it.
Camera, WiFi, Fingerprint Reader, Backlight Keyboard, Charger, better battery: Choose the best
most expensive one mainly because the prices were fractional compared to the whole laptop.
Base Cover Material: Although the Aluminium one is more premium many Indian households don't
bother with the third ground wire in their household so unless you have grounded your home connection,
the laptop body will shock you in which case just get the plastic body.
CPU: The 100U CPU is very weak, too weak to run normal Windows 11 properly let along any extra
applications on top of it.
RAM(+4k later): Amazon has afforable laptop RAM, there was
no point paying Lenovo extra as this laptop has two SSD slots already. This will incur extra
charges later however.
SSD(+6k later): Amazon has afforable SSD, there was no point
paying Lenovo extra as this laptop has two SSD slots already. This will incur extra charges
later however.
Display: 100% sRGB was the bare minimum, that was the whole reason to even boterh with thinkpads
in the first place otherwise I would have not.
Windows and Office: Too Expensive on Lenovo. You can use Windows without activating and of
course if you are fine with it, there are other ways to activate it.
Camera, WiFi, Fingerprint Reader, Backlight Keyboard, Charger and if an option opens later for
battery: Choose the best most expensive one mainly because the prices were fractional compared
to the whole laptop.
Base Cover Material: Although the Aluminium one is more premium many Indian households don't
bother with the third ground wire in their household so unless you have grounded your home connection,
the laptop body will shock you in which case just get the plastic body.
CPU: The best CPU 7735HS isn't that much more considering the price of the laptop so I went with
that..
RAM: AMD CPU and Windows 11 means you need a minimum of 24GB RAM to function and as goign from 8
to 32GB was not that much differnt that Amazon at the
point of writing I went with it. However, do compare
the prices yourself if they increase later.
SSD: Even though the cost of a new 256GB is the same since we only have two slots it's stupid to
buy one off of amazon and it's better to increase the base SSD to 512GB and then buy more from
Amazon later
as needed. Again, like above, check prices before making this judgement.
Display: 100% sRGB was the bare minimum, that was the whole reason to even boterh with thinkpads
in the first place otherwise I would have not.
Note: Don't get the touch screen as it's not color accurate.
Windows and Office: Too Expensive on Lenovo. You can use Windows without activating and of
course if you are fine with it, there are other ways to activate it.
Camera, WiFi, Fingerprint Reader, Backlight Keyboard, Charger, better battery: Choose the best
most expensive one mainly because the prices were fractional compared to the whole laptop.
Base Cover Material: Although the Aluminium one is more premium many Indian households don't
bother with the third ground wire in their household so unless you have grounded your home connection,
the laptop body will shock you in which case just get the plastic body.
CPU: 7735HS
7335U is just too weak in my opinion even for basic tasks.
When you add the next CPU, the best available here CPU 7735HS isn't that much more
considering
the price of the laptop so I went with that so we are selecing that.
RAM: AMD CPU and Windows 11 means you need a minimum of 24GB RAM to function and as goign from 8
to 32GB was not that much differnt that Amazon at the
point of writing I went with it. However, do compare
the prices yourself if they increase later.
SSD: Even though the cost of a new 256GB is the same since we only have two slots it's stupid to
buy one off of amazon and it's better to increase the base SSD to 512GB and then buy more from
Amazon later
as needed. Again, like above, check prices before making this judgement.
Display: 100% sRGB was the bare minimum, that was the whole reason to even boterh with thinkpads
in the first place otherwise I would have not.
Note: Don't get the touch screen as it's not color accurate.
Windows and Office: Too Expensive on Lenovo. You can use Windows without activating and of
course if you are fine with it, there are other ways to activate it.
Camera, WiFi, Fingerprint Reader, Backlight Keyboard, Charger, better battery: Choose the best
most expensive one mainly because the prices were fractional compared to the whole laptop.
Base Cover Material: Although the Aluminium one is more premium many Indian households don't
bother with the third ground wire in their household so unless you have grounded your home connection,
the laptop body will shock you in which case just get the plastic body.
RAM: AMD CPU and Windows 11 means you need a minimum of 24GB RAM to function however going above
16GB single stick was too much compared to Amazon so you might
still have to buy another 16GB stick over it. However, do compare
the prices yourself if they increase later.
SSD: Only 256GB available, so you have to buy one off of
Amazon anyways as 256GB is unusable. Again, like above, check prices
before making this judgement.
Display: No 100% sRGB available that's why I told you to ignore this laptop.
Note: Don't get the touch screen as it's not color accurate.
Windows and Office: Too Expensive on Lenovo. You can use Windows without activating and of
course if you are fine with it, there are other ways to activate it.
Camera, WiFi, Fingerprint Reader, Backlight Keyboard, Charger, better battery: Choose the best
most expensive one mainly because the prices were fractional compared to the whole laptop.
Base Cover Material: Although the Aluminium one is more premium many Indian households don't
bother with the third ground wire in their household so unless you have grounded your home connection,
the laptop body will shock you in which case just get the plastic body.
CPU: 225H is not much more than the 225U so this is the base CPU which is still very very
usable.
RAM (+4k): Amazon has afforable laptop RAM, there was no
point paying Lenovo extra as this laptop has two SSD slots already. This will incur extra
charges later however.
Also, since this is AMD aim for 24GB RAM and higher NOT 16GB RAM
SSD: 512GB isn't much more than the 256GB optoin.
Note: Amazon has afforable SSD if you want to upgrade even
more later.
Display: 100% sRGB was the bare minimum, that was the whole reason to even boterh with thinkpads
in the first place otherwise I would have not.
Windows and Office: Too Expensive on Lenovo. You can use Windows without activating and of
course if you are fine with it, there are other ways to activate it.
Camera, WiFi, Fingerprint Reader, Backlight Keyboard, Charger, better battery: Choose the best
most expensive one mainly because the prices were fractional compared to the whole laptop.
Base Cover Material: Although the Aluminium one is more premium many Indian households don't
bother with the third ground wire in their household so unless you have grounded your home connection,
the laptop body will shock you in which case just get the plastic body.
I have seen the conditions of Ideapad non gaming laptops in the past and even to this day if you check the
negative reviews of these machines you will see they are filled with durability issues which makes them not
long
term.
Yes, you can get ADP and use that whenever something breaks and
Lenovo tries to blame it on you but having done that perosnally many times, I can't wish it on my worst
enemies.
It's not a pleasant expereince where mfs keep closing your ticket and force you to take ADP which you can
only
claim once a year.
But as I said above in thinkpad section all the usable Thinkpads are getting so so expensive that we
have
to make some sacrifices and I remember Ideapad Pros being a lot better built than normal Ideapads, though I
will
need to again look deep into them before even slightly recomemnding them.
Ideapad Pro 5
IdeaPad Slim 5 OLED → Never Mind.
Note: Even though Thinkpads are the only thin and lights I recommend, due to high prices of even the
cheapest Thinkpads(E series>80k when they should be near 50k), I am forced to look into alternatives
and
this one comes to mind as a few people including one of my friends oredered this and they didn't see
any
problems with it.
The problem I brought was long term and as long you get Lenovo's own 3 years ADP which can later be exteneded
to
one more year for about 4-5k(wroth paying), atleast it's a good machine for four years. As long as
you
keep that in mind, I guess it's worth consdiering.
Old Stuff
@Archived/Old
Thinkpads are the only laptops I recommend in thin and light and budget friendly series. There are good
sturdy thin laptops from other brands also but they are usually very very expensive.
General Guidelines
Prefer 100% sRGB which are usually avaiable in customized laptops.
Prefer AMD over Intel for longer battery life and less heat.
Prefer 16" model(or models with the numpad on keyboard).
44k: Thinkpad E16 7535U 16GB 512GB Windows + Office + 1200p 67% sRGB Screen +
1
year ADP
Title says all. If you are fine with a slightly dull display and can't buy a PC or a heavy gaming
laptop this is my go to recommendation.
Extra savings if buying from Lenovo India. Check details here.
Add Rs.1200 for 1 year ADP and it's under 44k. No mouse, keyboard and any other things are worth
getting but use your judgement. In general, avoid all softwares from lenovo and all mouse,
keyboard,
headphones are shit.
Cheap Thinkpad: Under 40k: ThinkPad E14 7430U 8GB-512GB No OS
💩Shit Non-Gaming laptops💩→
Laptops
that flourises your relationship with the repair/service people
These are the laptops that makes a person start hating the whole brand whichever one they are. Every brand
makes
these disposable laptops at high margins while still making money off of the repiars and service. They know
that
and hence they don't give ADP with many of these machines, if they do, GET IT.
Steaming Pile of Horse Shit starts here:
Lenovo Ideapad Slim 1→ Don't just buy it because it's "cheap"
Hinge is weak and will break even normal usage especially under the display. These will
break.
Update: Alright, Alright, I will look into it again. But remember if you can get the above Think
pad by stretching your budget, you should get that or even a PC if you can build
it
in this range like I did.
Main reason to look into it was the fact that best seller laptops on amazon are exactly 33k and around it
and
so people are buying laptops in this range whether I like it or not often without additional warranty or
ADP
(which companies don't
give in this range because they know these machines won't last).
Older Post:
Quick Look→ No 3 years ADP as expected. One year ADP that costs another 1.5k. And that is the main
point. Just stick to the thinkpad above. Avoid this. The 5k difference from this to the Thinkpads above
will
be sucked from you in the
first few years. Thinkpads are the only laptops recommended even without ADP. Thinkbook IS NOT a
Thinkpad. I
have had the unfortunate moment of using this laptop and it shouldn't have Think in it's name.
Never really remains in stock to tell anyone about it. It gets
out
of stock right away. But the other major thing is that we don't know the long term implications of these
refurbished laptops.
It was close to 1 lakh when it launched (104k exactly) but just after a month it was 110k-115k. I already
don't recommend budget laptops over 1 lakh in any case for various
reasons.
Even with a 95W CPU this is a great value for money laptop.
Caution: The problem as with all the LOQ Intel HX Variants is that the initial models have died a lot
(3%+
according to my calculations) and for that reason prefer the newer models of the same. The only way
to
be sure
is to check the box's manufacturing date if getting offline or getting the customized variants
from
Lenovo
directly.
LOQ 14th gen Intel HX Quick Delivery: 14700HX 4060
Quick Delivery variants of LOQ Intel HX CPUs are not at all recommended because you can't confirm the
date of
manufacture so you con't say if it's on of the earlier unit or not.
Update: A new variant has launched on Amazon India for
Rs.115k. It
is similar to the laptop I got earlier. If the Legion above is
not
available,
only then think about this laptop.
Quick Delivery→115k Lenovo LOQ 14th Gen-14700HX-4060 115W-100%-16GB-1TB on Amazon India
Lenovo India: 1 year warranty. Warranty can't be extended. No
credit
card discounts or coupons applicable. Rebates unsure.
Great laptop if you can live with the slightly dull color screen. The screen is better than other brand's
budget laptop's 67% sRGB screeen like Asus TUF and more but it's not 100% sRGB so colors will look washed
out.
That's the whole problem
with this laptop. This laptop was the reason this channel boomed a few years ago. This laptop maintains the four
vent design that I recommend in countries with a lot of dust.
Here are some videos I did on this(Might not be in English. Some reviews are about 100% sRGB screen but
rest
are same. Already cleared the color thing in the line above):
