Hi there! Can anyone help me with buying a new laptop? I'm planning to get a new touchscreen laptop this Christmas since I'm working on an 8-year old model. Can someone suggest which ones are the best ones to take a look at? It would be helpful if someone is already using it. Also, I am a marketing executive so I don't need that heavy fancy graphic card configuration. I need my configuration where things work smoothly, that's it. I work on many remote tools which don't function well with my laptop so that's the basic concern I want to address. Help me out please?

A couple of follow-up questions; • Is touchscreen absolutely necessary? • Minimum screen size? • Maximum budget?

Touchscreen experience on Windows isn't really that good. Unless you really need a touchscreen, it'd be best to save that extra money you'd have to shell out for a touchscreen configuration.

Basically money paid for touchscreen can be utilized to buy a better config (with no touchscreen).

@flat-morning-91037 it's not absolutely necessary but I want to have a tablet-laptop experience as I'm a movie buff and I love exploring ott series and movies. My budget is somewhere between 50k-80k. Screen size should be considerable, not too small but large size can be acceptable considering it falls in the budget I mentioned.

@lemon-dinner-11115 I don't know what tools marketing professionals use, but I'm assuming Powerpoint is your weapon of choice and you need to travel around with your laptop a lot. 🙂 In that case, the following specs should be enough: 1. 4-8 cores (i5/i7/ryzen) 2. At least 8 GB RAM (16GB if the budget allows) 3. 128-256GB SSD 4. I would pay extra for lighter laptops since you'll carry it around a lot. 5. Make sure it has a built-in HDMI port to connect to projectors, otherwise you'll need to buy an extra dongle. Use Amazon to filter for these parameters.

Hi @helpful-gigabyte-47939. Yes, I'm a marketing professional but I use a lot of remote working tools which with the current laptop doesn't sit well. And I'm looking for a Ram config within 8-16 GB and the SSD range that you mentioned. It would be helpful if it's lighter but I'd also look at how resilient it is with a young kid around it. With HDMI ports, aren't they now an included thing? Idk!

I’m a movie buff and I love exploring ott series and movies. My budget is somewhere between 50k-80k.

How would touchscreen help with it apart from interaction? I believe you need a better screen (i.e. better colour accuracy), although under 80k, there aren’t enough Windows laptops that have higher color accuracy. But let me find some options.

Alright in that case, I should drop the touchscreen but then a good graphics card would be required to have better video quality, isn't it? Because with the current one, the video is pretty distorted. I can spot the pixels out.

Asus Vivobook series laptops are good. I have one and it's been working fine for last 3 years. Purchased a couple for my friends and colleagues and theirs is working fine too. You can get a decent laptop within 50k that'll easily last you 5 years.

If you aren’t playing games or rendering edited videos, you don’t need a laptop with dedicated graphics card, integrated GPU (be it Intel or AMD) would be sufficient, in fact a laptop without dedicated GPU would give you a better battery life too.

@lemon-dinner-11115 Perhaps you can mention what tools you need to use? And lighter doesn't always mean flimsy. On the contrary, it usually means better materials e.g. Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon, Macbooks, etc. But the challenge is to find something in the mid-range. HDMI ports can be replaced with proprietary connectors in some laptops and and then they expect you to buy a 20-30 USD dongle for HDMI. Just something to check. Asus makes nice mid-range laptops as mentioned here. I'm partial to Thinkpads though, that might be slightly outside your budget.

Yes yes @helpful-gigabyte-47939. Not flimsy. I use airtable, buffer, Google workspace, ms teams, skype, zoom, WhatsApp. Lately, ms teams has stopped working on my laptop so I use it through browser. But I'm used to using the app instead of getting it done on the browser. Also, ms office is something which I don't use extensively but yet there are days when I'm working on it. I don't have to use ms powerpoint ever. I've not used in two years. I'm taking a look at Dell since I've used Dell laptops for years. What is your say on that?

Yes then the one I shared link to, should be sufficient for the tools you use, besides, OLED screens a treat on laptop.

@lemon-dinner-11115 It has held up quite well. Most modern laptops will easily last you 5 years or more, as long as you buy one with an SSD (and go for a good brand) . Slowdowns etc. are only a concern for gamers because they need high-end hardware.

Yes @flat-morning-91037 the one you shared looks good.

@lemon-dinner-11115 If you haven't gotten one yet, you can keep an eye on ASUS Vivobook Slate 13 OLED. They just launched it and it should be coming to India in a few months. It seems to meet most of your requirements. It has a slightly low-end processor though. You can check the review for the processor here - https://laptopsreviewer.com/product/intel-pentium-silver-n6000/#Performance_Intel_Pentium_Silver_N6000_Good_or_Bad