HP or Dell Laptop purchase (35-40K ) (Non Gaming)

[Rajesh345]

1) What is your budget? 35-40K


2) What size & weight consideration (if any) would you prefer?

• Mainstream; 15" - 16" screen

3) What are the primary tasks you will be performing with this notebook?

• MS Office Mainly /Less Games (or rare)
• Event if APU based configuration would be sufficient , would strongly prefer i3/i5 CPUs only

5) Any typical configuration in your mind you're eying for ?

looking for only core i3 or i5 (No AMD/APU)

4) Are there any brands that you prefer or any you really don't like?
Only from HP & Dell ( its for friend , he prefer only this two brand)


6) Anything else you would like to say?

• Online Purchase
• 4GB Ram /8GB
• Storage event 500GB is enough
• OS - Windows 10/8.1 installed

Thank you , kindly suggest good Laptop in this range

 

[whitestar_999]

*www.amazon.in/HP-Notebook-i5-8250U...refinements=p_36:3500000-4500000,p_89:HP|Dell
However this review suggests screen quality is not good: Customer Review

Above was the only laptop from HP/Dell within 35-40k budget that comes with intel 8th gen processor & win 10.You may already know about Spectre & Meltdown bugs affecting almost all processors so suggesting 8th gen intel+win 10 system as running win 7/8.1 with 6th gen or older intel processors will significantly reduce performance of processor.

 

[billubakra]

Go with what you have been told in the above post but try to skip harassement-packard.

 

[Rajesh345]

Go with what you have been told in the above post but try to skip harassement-packard.

Kindly shares reason for you statemest? Does they have bad aftersservice / low durability products etc

 

[billubakra]

Kindly shares reason for you statemest? Does they have bad aftersservice / low durability products etc

Very very bad after sales service. I bought a high end gaming laptop and I was harassed to the core.

 

[whitestar_999]

@billubakra case of HP bad after sales service is true but such cases are found for all laptop manufacturers,call it a case of real bad luck(his laptop also came with win 10 which was also not that stable at that time).

If you want Dell then there is this model:
*www.amazon.in/Dell-Inspiron-15-6-i...n_feature_two_browse-bin:1464424031,p_89:Dell

One thing I would recommend is buying from authorized offline store as you may get extended warranty & ADP(accidental damage protection) at cheaper rates.It also helps seeing the laptop screen in person to judge its quality.