Are you a student? Are you in college or learn computer programming in school?
Do you like to explore new stuff online? Does your mobile or tablet’s screen size restrict your productivity?
Well, laptops are the perfect solution for you! They come with more processing power, larger battery backup and a physical keyboard coupled with lots of disk space to help you do anything and everything you can imagine!
They might cost more than most budget phones, but offer endless productivity, be it college assignments, downloading stuff, sharing files, doing gaming via LAN or multiplayer or plain simple binge movie/TV show watching. Larger screens are the royalty of technology!
Here it is! Here are 7 affordable laptops that fit into various kinds of budgets that can help every student cut down boredom and do more productive work
- Acer Aspire E1-572
The bestselling laptop from Acer! A simple yet powerful 15-inch laptop that retails just under 38K. It is a no-frills laptop that covers all essentials and is perfect for being your first budget laptop. A full-size keyboard with numpad will help you make quick calculations. Light-weight at about 2.3 kg and perfect for fitting inside your bag!
- HP 15-G002AX
Retailing at just 35k, this is a perfect AMD powered solution that comes in a quad-core avatar coupled with an AMD Radeon HD 8570M graphics chip with 2GB DDR3 memory that spells out affordable gaming of most medium-end games at low settings.
Sporting the best configuration in its budget, the laptop comes with genuine Windows 8.1 64-bit OS and dual-HD audio speakers with lots of connectivity ports found on most laptops. Upgrading the RAM will make this as powerful as an ultrabook!
- HP Pavilion 15-p001tx
This one goes higher up into the budget segment, retailing at sub-50k, but offers full bang for the back since it has oodles of RAM and storage and also a NVIDIA GeForce – GT 830M graphics chip with 2GB dedicated memory that promises crazy gaming at breakneck speeds.
The core i5 processor is the icing on its configuration cake!
- Dell Inspiron 15 5547
This one is for the rich kids who’s ‘affordable quotient’ is higher than others! This laptop is the best ultrabook currently in India. With a full-HD display, a whopping Intel Core i7 chip, 8GB of DDR3 RAM and a dedicated AMD Radeon HD R7 – M265 graphics chip with dedicated 2GB DDR5 RAM, this laptop is the Goliath!
Plus, it looks really good! A premium device for people who care about looks too!
- Lenovo Y50-70
Hold on! Yes, we meant budget, but no laptop list is incomplete without a gaming laptop for our gaming brothers out there! This is a sub-1 lakh rupee, pure-gaming laptop for people who game at inter-college fests and represent their clans.
With a Full HD 15.6-inch screen and an Intel Core i7-4710HQ chip coupled with 8GB DDR3 RAM, this is a monster! Add to that 1TB HDD + 8GB SSD of storage and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX – 860M graphics card with 2GB GDDR5 memory! What else can you ask for if you can’t afford an Alienware with the same specs!
- Toshiba Portege Z30t-A
An ideal laptop for daily commutes. It is light, portable and has a long battery life. At 13.3 inches, this is perfect for women, who like to carry a lightweight laptop inside their tote bag.
Since it has a brilliant screen, it can be used for making presentations on-the-go since it is touchscreen. At 1, 00,000 it might not be too cheap, but is a premium device that comes in an ultrabook avatar with an Intel Core i5 4200U and 256GB SSD.
- Lenovo IdeaPad YOGA 2
This is for all the show-offs out there! This is a convertible laptop that can be used in many angles like laptop mode, stand mode, tent mode and a tablet mode – basically any position you want to prop it up in!
It is lightweight and cheap at sub-60k if you look at what it offers. It is ultraportable with a 13.3 inch form factor and has lots of crunching power underneath with Windows 8.1 64 bit, fully capacitive touchscreen, backlit keyboard, Intel Core i5 4200U with an Intel HD Graphics 4400 chip and 500 GB + 8 GB SSD Hybrid storage and has 8 hours of battery backup!
There you are!
The 7-best laptops for each kind of budget! Which one will you get? Please be advised, get the laptop you need, not the one your money can buy!
Not everyone needs an Alienware when all they do is watch movies! Invest smart!
