Laptop suggestion for Buisness use.

[RumbaMon19]

1) What is your budget? (INR or USD)
Budget is not defined as such, but would like to keep it the minimum possible, preferably around INR 30K-35K


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?

It will be used for Tally, Busy and Emails, Printing, generating invoices etc. other buisness stuff.
5) Any typical configuration in your mind you're eying for ?
SSD should be must, Should have sturdy build, Battery not much of an issue.

4) Are there any brands that you prefer or any you really don't like?
a. Like: Asus, Lenovo, Any other good brands
b. Dislike: HP due to bad QA.


6) Anything else you would like to say?
- Will buy it offline.

• will buy in this or coming week itself.
• A good processor so it lasts atleast 5 years.

- Upgradeable RAM preffered to increase it 16GB in coming years if required.
- No gaming will be done or any other graphic intensive workload will be performed.
- Tally, Busy, Gmail (Chrome).
- A full sized keyboard is necessary.

Not interested in HP because the last laptop of the same company didnt last long and had recurring Issues in display.

Pls help @omega44-xt @whitestar_999 @SaiyanGoku and others..

 

[omega44-xt]

HP 14s with R5 5300U, 8 GB RAM is around 36k. Get that add, extra RAM later.

Get external KB for numpad as most 15" laptops under 50k have a TN panel, it is bad, very bad.

 

[RumbaMon19]

HP 14s with R5 5300U, 8 GB RAM is around 36k. Get that add, extra RAM later.

Get external KB for numpad as most 15" laptops under 50k have a TN panel, it is bad, very bad.

Any other brand recommendations? The person who is buying it will most probably avoid HP now due to bad experience previously.

Also, no constrain on screens size if numpad is available. Otherwise external keyboard maybe considered.

 

[omega44-xt]

Any other brand recommendations? The person who is buying it will most probably avoid HP now due to bad experience previously.

Also, no constrain on screens size if numpad is available. Otherwise external keyboard maybe considered.

Numpad is only available with 15" laptops.

Check for other R5 5300U or R3 7320U laptops. Some laptops like Asus Vivobook Go OLED has a soldered 8GB RAM with no expansion possible. I won't recommend that because of RAM. Can get Intel i3 12th/13th CPUs if priced well & battery life is not an issue, avoid 11th gen.

 

[RumbaMon19]

Okay,

I searched for some of these please tell which one is good. I liked this Lenovo one, but it seems to have a bad display.

Lenovo Ideapad Slim 3 AMD Ryzen 5 7520U 15.6" (39.6cm) FHD Laptop (8Gb/512Gb SSD/Win 11/Office 2021/1 Year Warranty/Alexa Built-in/3 Month Game Pass/Arctic Grey/1.62Kg), 82XQ008GIN *amzn.eu/d/02qOv0I

HP Laptop 15s, AMD Ryzen 5 5500U, 15.6-inch (39.6 cm), FHD, 8GB DDR4, 512GB SSD, AMD Radeon Graphics, Thin & Light, Dual Speakers (Win 11, MSO 2019, Silver, 1.69 kg), eq2144AU *amzn.eu/d/aC5upG8

Found these two

I have no size constraints, numpad is a must.

Majority of the options are coming with soldered RAM. How many years till 8gb Ram becomes obsolete for basic usage? If it can survive 5 years, then I can look into soldered RAM laptops.

Can get Intel i3 12th/13th CPUs if priced well & battery life is not an issue, avoid 11th gen.

Please give some recommendations for Intel models too..

 

[omega44-xt]

Okay,

I searched for some of these please tell which one is good. I liked this Lenovo one, but it seems to have a bad display.

Lenovo Ideapad Slim 3 AMD Ryzen 5 7520U 15.6" (39.6cm) FHD Laptop (8Gb/512Gb SSD/Win 11/Office 2021/1 Year Warranty/Alexa Built-in/3 Month Game Pass/Arctic Grey/1.62Kg), 82XQ008GIN *amzn.eu/d/02qOv0I

HP Laptop 15s, AMD Ryzen 5 5500U, 15.6-inch (39.6 cm), FHD, 8GB DDR4, 512GB SSD, AMD Radeon Graphics, Thin & Light, Dual Speakers (Win 11, MSO 2019, Silver, 1.69 kg), eq2144AU *amzn.eu/d/aC5upG8

Found these two

I have no size constraints, numpad is a must.

Majority of the options are coming with soldered RAM. How many years till 8gb Ram becomes obsolete for basic usage? If it can survive 5 years, then I can look into soldered RAM laptops.



Please give some recommendations for Intel models too..

Both of them have TN panels sadly. Lenovo ones is newer & 300nit TN panel seems new, not sure why. Dell does this as well, hell my Dell Precision office laptop has a 768p TN panel, which is bad.

I doubt 8GB is enough for 5 years on Win11. With basic web browsing, I see 7GB RAM usage on my office laptop (8GB RAM). Tabs get cached to storage. 8GB is enough for basic browsing for now, but websites are becoming heavier. The R3 5300U or even i3 12th gen can be considered faster than top i7 quad cores from 6 years back or at least as fast as that. Smartphones are getting close to its performance, even a S778 SoC phone won't be too far behind. So websites will get more resource intensive.

If you want to live with 8GB RAM, just install a linux based OS as Windows is very bloated, Win11 is more bloated than Win10 in my experience. Up to you to research on using linux OS.

Asus had some laptops with soldered RAM + 1 free slot, they are getting greedy & removed that free slot. Honestly a R3 5300U or i3 12th gen CPU is more than powerful enough for normal usage for years to come IMO. But like Apple, they want to put artificial limitations so that you upgrade early.

 

[whitestar_999]

Budget is not defined as such, but would like to keep it the minimum possible, preferably around INR 30K-35K

In this budget you won't get anything good. Better increase it to at least 50k & get a laptop with total 3 years warranty incl ADP & hope it lasts 1-2 years beyond those 3 years. Nowadays don't expect any laptop to survive more than 4-5 years without issues even if it costs 1 lakh currently. You can use EMI to buy if budget increase is not possible in one go.

 

[RumbaMon19]

@omega44-xt

If I extend my budget upto 45K, is there any offering from Asus or Lenovo at that range? Basically should have numpad(Screen size doesn't matter). What RAM options are available at this point?

 

[RumbaMon19]

Nowadays don't expect any laptop to survive more than 4-5 years without issues even if it costs 1 lakh currently.

Noted.

 

[omega44-xt]

@omega44-xt

If I extend my budget upto 45K, is there any offering from Asus or Lenovo at that range? Basically should have numpad(Screen size doesn't matter). What RAM options are available at this point?

Not that I know of. Get ext KB.