If you don't need a specialised machine for work or a high-end one for gaming, there are some very good laptops for under or around Rs. 50,000 in India. These machines pack enough power to run all your usual office and productivity apps, and can even handle light gaming. Each pick has one or two highlight features, so you can choose the one that suits you the best.
If you're looking for a general purpose laptop with a great display and decent specs, it's hard to beat the Asus Vivobook Go 15 OLED. You read that right, this is one of the few laptops around Rs. 50,000 to feature a 15.6-inch OLED display. The display has up to 500 nits of brightness, and is Pantone validated with a Delta-E rating of less than 2 for high colour accuracy.
It's powered by a decent AMD Ryzen 5 7520U processor, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB PCIe SSD. Despite its slim design, you get plenty of ports like two full-sized USB, a Type-C port, and HDMI. There's a large palm rest area, full-sized backlit keyboard with 1.4mm travel for the keys, and a HD webcam with a physical privacy shutter. You can find it for around Rs. 52,000 on Amazon, but it goes much lower during sales.
For those that need a convertible Windows laptop, the Dell Inspiron 7430 2-in-1 is a good pick. It has a compact 14-inch Full-HD display with touch input, and a 16:10 aspect ratio to aid in productivity. It's powered by the recent Intel 13th Gen Core i3-1315U processor, and comes with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. The laptop offers a large trackpad, backlit keys, fingerprint reader, and upward-firing stereo speakers. There's a 1080p webcam with AI background noise removal feature.
The great thing about a 2-in-1 laptop is that you can fold the display backwards all the way, and turn it into a giant tablet. You can opt for a combo which includes Dell's stylus pen, if you pay more.
Acer's Swift Go series is famous for its quality thin and light laptops, and the Swift Go 14 is just the ticket. It has an all-aluminium chassis that's just
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