Best Budget Laptops for Students (July 2023)

The I/O support on the laptop is also pretty good. It comes with two type-c ports, one of which is a Thunderbolt 4 port, an HDMI 1.4 slot, two USB type-a ports, a microSD card slot and a 3.5mm USB jack. The laptop's cheaper variant, priced at Rs 36,990, comes with 8GB LPDDR4X memory. But I’d suggest you go for the 16GB RAM variant because LPDDR4X memory is embedded into the motherboard and is non-upgradable. Lastly, the laptop also has an aluminium alloy body. Meaning it will be able to easily withstand daily wear and tear which comes given with a hectic college life.

The laptop also features plenty of ports including three USB type-a ports, a 3.5mm audio jack, an HDMI output slot and also an RJ 45 ethernet port too for accessing uninterrupted internet. Unfortunately, you won’t find a USB type-C port on this laptop. Acer Aspire 3 also comes with a 15.6-inch 1080p display and the laptop’s total weight is 1.78kg, making it decently portable.

The Lenovo IdeaPad does come with a 256GB SSD for faster boot and app load times. Additional features of the laptop include a webcam shutter for increased privacy, a 14-inch 1080p anti-glare screen, which prevents reflections, especially from overhanging lights, along with Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0 for better connectivity.

To give you the power to do so, the laptop comes equipped with an AMD Ryzen 5 5500U, a 6-core 12-thread Accelerated Processing Unit or APU. An APU is basically a processor which AMD makes that has the CPU and the integrated GPU cores on a single die. More often than not these APUs offer quite good iGPU performance and the Ryzen 5500U is no different. It features a 7-core Radeon iGPU which can easily let you do some light gaming as well as graphics-heavy creative work on the laptop. Moreover, since it is a Ryzen ‘U’ series chip its default power consumption is just 15W. Combine that with the OLED display and you get a laptop with seriously high battery life in its segment.

And with the Thunderbolt 4 support, you can output to an external display and also charge your laptop at the same time. Additionally, the laptop has USB Type-c charging so you can carry just one charger for your laptop and smartphone. Just make sure it's 65W or above because the laptop supports it. To complement the 2K display, the speakers on this laptop are also very good. They’re crisp, loud and also offer a decent base for a device of this size. Furthermore, the laptop’s all-metal body will also make sure that it lasts for a long time without any major wear or tear issues.

But you won’t have to compromise in terms of performance because the Vivobook Flip 14 comes with 8GB LPDDR4X RAM and around 512GB of internal storage, which should be enough to store all your files and then some. Being a creative device, the Vivobook 14 Flip also features very healthy I/O support including two type-a ports, a USB type-c Thunderbolt 4 port, a microSD card slot, an HDMI port, a 3.5mm audio jack and a DC charging port. The Thunderbolt 4 port is a blessing here as you can use it to showcase live drawing tutorials on a big screen as well. Lastly, the laptop also gets Wi-Fi 6 for faster and seamless connectivity.

Plus, you can also use an external gaming monitor with your laptop if you want to play eSports titles at a high refresh rate. The laptop also gets plenty of I/O ports including three USB type-a ports, one of which is a power-off charging port that can charge your device even if your laptop is in hibernation mode or is turned off. The laptop also comes with an HDMI port, a USB type-c port and an ethernet slot as well.

Granted that the chip is a bit old in 2023 but its 8 high-performance cores offer really good performance for multitasking. One of the best features of the laptop is the upwards-firing speaker grille as it makes your content consumption experience very immersive. Additionally, the laptop also comes with a webcam privacy shutter, a fingerprint sensor integrated with the power button and rapid charge technology which charges the laptop up to 80% in 60 minutes. The laptop’s 14-inch anti-glare display also has a peak brightness of 300 nits so you won’t have a problem working in a well-lit environment. And for better connectivity, the laptop also has Wi-Fi 6 and relatively better Bluetooth 5.1 as well, which provides better data transfer speed and security compared to Bluetooth 5.0.