best Laptop for 70-75k budget - immediate requirement - college student

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You should browse Asus India or Lenovo India websites instead of Flipkart and Amazon. In any case, you should buy an Apple Macbook Air at the student pricing instead of any of these. Even if it is 8k more than you mentioned (83k). Do NOT buy an Apple product from Amazon/Flipkart/Tata Cliq/Croma/Reliance Digital if the price differential on Apple Student website vs the other sites are less than 5%.

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Buy 13-inch MacBook Air – Education – Apple (IN)

At 6990 (- 3500 Axis Flipkart =66490) ASUS Vivobook Pro 14 OLED (2021) Core i5 11th Gen – (16 GB/512 GB SSD/Windows 10 Home/4 GB Graphics/NVIDIA GeForce RTX GTX 1650/90 Hz) K3400PH-KM029TS Gaming Laptop Rs.110990 Price in India – Buy ASUS Vivobook Pro 14 OLED (2021) Core i5 11th Gen – (16 GB/512 GB SSD/Windows 10 Home/4 GB Graphics/NVIDIA GeForce RTX GTX 1650/90 Hz) K3400PH-KM029TS Gaming Laptop Quiet Blue Online – ASUS : Flipkart.com

ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 is a good choice and will easily last you through the college.

CPU is great and has a higher TDP and will easily last 5+ years.

Lenovo IdeaPad 5 pro and HP Pavilion 15 11th has a low powered cpu and will become a bottleneck in few years with CPU demanding tasks.

Or I would suggest for bigger screen, better CPU, more ram and better overall for the price

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ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (2021) user here. Unless you have an extended monitor at your workplace, this tiny screen will be hard to navigate, especially when you’re programming in consol or the frontend.

78k me MacBook Air M1 aa jayega 😇 if want mac-os 😇

M1 Mac or Mac Mini

bhai, share the college students’ stream, usage patterns etc. 🙂🙂🙂

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To mac book i would like to add, mac book gets slow and laggy while using IDE.
Better go with windows.

The Zephyrus series despite the high-end CPU and upper mid-range GPU usually deliver excellent battery life anywhere from 9.5 to 12 hours  depending on the model and the workload, far exceeding those from their contemporaries. One doesn’t have to choose between performance and battery life. Plus the pricing is quite decent as well. Not quite the holy trifecta but oh so close! 

Otherwise the MacBook M1 if it fits your work flow. I have read about some software incompatibilities still persisting though… 

Your preference for Windows is cool but you don’t need any paid software to do anything on Mac that you’d not have otherwise paid for in Windows. All coding platforms like Python, Java, R, C etc. are completely free. Everything that is free in Windows, definitely has a free alternative in MAC that is as good. Also unlike iOS, you can install pirated software on Mac. Look up. Anyway. 

Asus Vivobook 14 OLED 
There is no better laptop at this price (available in India)
https://www.flipkart.com/asus-vivobook-pro-14-o...

Better do inter after 12th and get a laptop free otherwise look at Dell touch screen versions at 70 to 75k good laptops available 

I can help with apply student discount if you want, I bought. lasy year, I bought m1 ipad pro for 68k 

Asus https://in.store.asus.com/90nr07b3-m01580-ga401... (older gtx 1650) 79k @LIMBO;

https://in.store.asus.com/fx516...ml 79k (TUF Dash Intel n Nvidia 3050ti)

You can extend warranty by visiting asus website.

ASUS VivoBook K15 OLED (2021) Ryzen 5 Hexa Core 5500U – (16 GB/512 GB SSD/Windows 11 Home) https://www.flipkart.com/asus-vivobook-k15-oled...

Lenovo

IdeaPad Slim 5i Pro (14, 11th Gen Intel)

You will be getting 3 years Onsite warranty n 1year ADP without any cost. https://www.lenovo.com/in/en/laptops/ideapad/s-...

It is a good laptop. 2 Year ADP comes at 2799. You break your laptop 3 times in 3 years of time, they will fix your laptop without a question. It’s personally verified. 🙂🙂🙂

Asus, Lenovo, Dell or Apple all include the ability to limit maximum battery charge to prolong it’s longevity. Acer only started including this important feature in 2020 models and later. Effing HP only in it’s business lineup and that too randomly removing it from newer models. 

Personally I think I will go for a Lenovo laptop next time. Acer is very restrictive with the options provided in the BIOS and mods are rare. 

Check- 

LG Gram 14 Intel Evo 11th Gen Core i5 14 inches Ultra-Light Laptop

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ok I’ve a different theory than everybody else it seems. If you’re a computer science student, I’d strictly not suggest any MacBook. There are 2 main reasons:

1. You won’t be able to experiment with your computer, which is needed to grow yourself as a computer science student. MacOS is very restricted in itself and Apple hardware is restrictive too. You’ll have to do lots of efforts to even find work arounds. By experiments, I mean you’d want to install different operating systems including hackintosh, linux etc, use different tools, use storage drives to transfer movies/softwares/assignments among other people in college and what not, all of these would be done best and easily on windows based machines only.

2. Apple hardware isn’t really good now a days, especially for MacBooks. I’m not talking about M1 chip or motherboard, but about the overall quality control. I’ve a MacBook pro with touch bar 2017 model bought for 1.5L including apple care. Its touchbar, display & keyboard, all went bad within 3 years. Got them replaced in the 33rd month. Service centre informed that a brand new display was fit in. Now after 8 months, this new display is also showing EXACT same issues as the previous display. This implies that the quality control itself is very poor. Now the display replacement will cost me 48k. Don’t fall in this trap.

Also, the Ideapad 5 pro or Asus Vivobook pro, as suggested in the thread, I’ll NOT suggest any of them. Simple reason is their high end display. Understand it like this:
1. You’re a student right now. If you get used to high end displays right now, it’ll be very difficult for you to adjust later.
2. Also, Ideapad has 2.2k display and Vivobook pro has 2.8k oled display, both of which consume a lot of battery, which is why battery life on both these laptops is bad. 4 hour battery life is NOT good!
3. oled displays are not really good for laptops. They’re expensive to replace and tend to burn-in.
4. These 2 models are not with touchscreen, but don’t go for other touchscreen models. They’re an overkill for any laptop. More of a fancy feature than real world usability

So which one should you buy?

Mandatory features: Imo, It’d be best for you to buy a windows laptop which has FHD display, 16gb RAM, 512gb pcie ssd. i5 processor will be enough, a good keyboard is a must, good service network.
Good to have things: type c charging for fast charging, usb 3.2 ports for fast data transfers, light weight so you can easily carry anywhere, good battery life – preferably more than 6 hours, backlit keyboard.

1. https://www.flipkart.com/lenovo-ideapad-5-core-...

This same model is also available on lenovo website directly. You can use any generic coupon to get some discount and there is a 10% cashback (upto 5000) offer also running right now on all credit cards:
https://www.lenovo.com/in/en/laptops/ideapad/s-...

PS: Default warranty 1 year, buy additional 2 year warranty for 1800.

2. https://www.flipkart.com/asus-vivobook-ultra-14...
PS: Default warranty 1 year, buy additional 2 year warranty from Asus directly (probably 2500, not sure)

3. https://www.dell.com/en-in/shop/laptops-2-in-1-...
PS: This comes with default 3 year warranty. Additional 2k off on netbanking/upi.

I know your budget was 75k. So buy around 60-65k and invest that balance money somewhere. Use it if laptop needs some repair after 3 year warranty expires

Please focus on your purchase purpose. Don’t end up buying a media centric device instead of an experimenting & coding device that you need.

Yes OLED displays in laptops over the years don’t seem to have improved much in terms of battery life. Some reviews do mention that switching to a dark theme should improve battery life in web browsing tests but then they don’t test it in such a way. I only activate dark theme in my smartphones in a really dim environment but I enable it always on my laptop. This was a major incentive for me to stick to Windows 10. Also burn-in or rather image retention is a valid concern over the multi-year period that a laptop is usually expected to be in use.

There are some laptops at the price range of 55 to 65k which is more than enough for that person’s requirement.

After taking into account of various suggestions

Should I go for
1 IdeaPad Slim 5i Pro (14, 11th Gen Intel)

Or

2. Lenovo IdeaPad 5

Or

3 . Vivobook ultra

HP PavilionAero – Ryzen 5, 16 GB+ 256 GB SSD , 0.97 Kg weight – 66K

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My daughter is using it for last 6 mths. Very good battery backup and its so easy to carry around.

83k + whatever card cash back you can get

Dunno. I didn’t check. I have a very dim opinion of HP even though my very first laptop was from it’s stable and it was in use for 8+ years ,more than half of it under very heavy workloads. It’s just that the hinge design was faulty . The flaw existed for several years but wasn’t addressed for a few more years. Despite being one of the top 3 notebook OEMs HP doesn’t seem to a particularly innovative one. Never one to push the envelope in any which way. Uninspiring products except at the very high-end.

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@shriAyodhya Which laptop did you finalize?