[Buying Guide]Purchase Laptop for daily use <80K

[Deepak Bhandari]

I want to purchase a laptop for daily use as detailed below

Price range : <80k
Size: Mainstream; 15" - 16" screen
Primary task:
For daily use as well as some occasional photo editing.
Typical configuration:
Iam purchasing laptop after 7+ years and now lots of talk about SSD and how fast they are, so I want to buy 1 with SSD. + 1TB HDD, i7 8th gen processor( no specific reason just want latest processor).
brands that you prefer: I like dell/hp/lenovo but open to any good product. I have heard about asus lately. How are their laptops?
Miscellaneous:
A good full HD screen with decent audio is preferred to see movies/series.

Please suggest some good laptop.

 

[Minion]

Lenovo Legion Core i7 7th Gen - (8 GB/1 TB HDD/128 GB SSD/Windows 10 Home/4 GB Graphics) Y520 Gaming Laptop Rs.92990 Price in India - Buy Lenovo Legion Core i7 7th Gen - (8 GB/1 TB HDD/128 GB SSD/Windows 10 Home/4 GB Graphics) Y520 Gaming Laptop Black Online - Lenovo : Flipkart.com

 

[omega44-xt]

Lenovo Legion Core i7 7th Gen - (8 GB/1 TB HDD/128 GB SSD/Windows 10 Home/4 GB Graphics) Y520 Gaming Laptop Rs.92990 Price in India - Buy Lenovo Legion Core i7 7th Gen - (8 GB/1 TB HDD/128 GB SSD/Windows 10 Home/4 GB Graphics) Y520 Gaming Laptop Black Online - Lenovo : Flipkart.com

GTX 1050 is a bad choice at 75k, moreover OP's requirement doesn't need a gaming laptop (except for HDD + SSD)

 

[omega44-xt]

I think this laptop is sufficient for you:
Acer Nitro 5 Ryzen 5 Quad Core - (8 GB/1 TB HDD/Windows 10 Home/4 GB Graphics) AN515-42 Gaming Laptop Rs.54990 Price in India - Buy Acer Nitro 5 Ryzen 5 Quad Core - (8 GB/1 TB HDD/Windows 10 Home/4 GB Graphics) AN515-42 Gaming Laptop Black Online - Acer : Flipkart.com

Based on your usage, you don't need a 70-80k gaming laptop. This 50k gaming laptop is more than sufficient for you. It has an empty M.2 SSD slot, so add a 256GB SSD to it & clone OS to SSD.

If you want a premium laptop, get this one:
Asus ZenBook Core i5 8th Gen - (8 GB/256 GB SSD/Windows 10 Home) UX430UA-GV334T Thin and Light Laptop Rs.69990 Price in India - Buy Asus ZenBook Core i5 8th Gen - (8 GB/256 GB SSD/Windows 10 Home) UX430UA-GV334T Thin and Light Laptop Blue Metal Online - Asus : Flipkart.com
It's an ultrabook, so its thin & light with a good battery life. Also, it has a better display than the Acer one (in terms of contrast & color reproduction). Its CPU is equivalent to that Ryzen 5 one but you won't be able to play latest games (it doesn't seem like you will play games). Although you will lose the ability to have an SSD+HDD.

 

[Minion]

I think this laptop is sufficient for you:
Acer Nitro 5 Ryzen 5 Quad Core - (8 GB/1 TB HDD/Windows 10 Home/4 GB Graphics) AN515-42 Gaming Laptop Rs.54990 Price in India - Buy Acer Nitro 5 Ryzen 5 Quad Core - (8 GB/1 TB HDD/Windows 10 Home/4 GB Graphics) AN515-42 Gaming Laptop Black Online - Acer : Flipkart.com

Based on your usage, you don't need a 70-80k gaming laptop. This 50k gaming laptop is more than sufficient for you. It has an empty M.2 SSD slot, so add a 256GB SSD to it & clone OS to SSD.

If you want a premium laptop, get this one:
Asus ZenBook Core i5 8th Gen - (8 GB/256 GB SSD/Windows 10 Home) UX430UA-GV334T Thin and Light Laptop Rs.69990 Price in India - Buy Asus ZenBook Core i5 8th Gen - (8 GB/256 GB SSD/Windows 10 Home) UX430UA-GV334T Thin and Light Laptop Blue Metal Online - Asus : Flipkart.com
It's an ultrabook, so its thin & light with a good battery life. Also, it has a better display than the Acer one (in terms of contrast & color reproduction). Its CPU is equivalent to that Ryzen 5 one but you won't be able to play latest games (it doesn't seem like you will play games). Although you will lose the ability to have an SSD+HDD.

He specifically asked for an i7 with SSD that is why I suggested that laptop though I agree 2nd option suggested by you is prefect for OP but I am not sure if lack of dedicated GPU will hamper photo editing

 

[omega44-xt]

He specifically asked for an i7 with SSD that is why I suggested that laptop though I agree 2nd option suggested by you is prefect for OP but I am not sure if lack of dedicated GPU will hamper photo editing

I don't think OP would do some serious photo editing. SSD will help a lot with load times (1 min+ on HDD vs 15sec or so on SSD for Photoshop).