Need a laptop for coding

Questionnaire for laptop/notebook purchase:
1) Budget?
1L INR, give or take

2) Size & weight?

Thin and Light; 12" - 14" screen
Mainstream; 15" - 16" screen
(Both will work)

3) What are the primary tasks you will be performing with this notebook?
Primary task: Coding
Secondary task: WebBrowsing, college work
Others: Misc(multimedia/docs/2d, old games/photoediting/notetaking)

4) Any typical configuration in your mind you're eying for ?
The way I see it there are 5 types of laptops in this price range:
1. Office Laptop: (since XPS isn't in my price range) Ideapad. I have no idea if they would be smooth when multitasking, browsing, compiling etc.
2. Gaming Laptop: I had this one before. While it had good performance, its battery life and mobility were laughable. Couldn't be left unplugged. HP Omens and Pavilions are around this price range. Performance to value for these seem to be the best.
3. Macbooks: Not a option, since no Windows/Linux. Seem to be the best in terms of what a laptop should be.
4. Thinkpads: They are sturdy, but have average performance. I have specifically seen E14 around my price range. Have good linux support and battery life from anecdotes. Leaning towards this option.
5. G14: Seem to be office+gaming laptop, with best of both worlds. Cheaper versions of latest models doesn't seem to be available though.

6) Anything else you would like to say?

Screen resolution: 1080p
Battery back up: extended (5-7hrs)
Purchase place: Preferably Amazon, but can go for flipkart too. Not any other obscure websites
Should have fairly good support for linux. It would be on Linux for 70% of the time.
Should have 16GB of RAM and a SSD, if not available it should have necessary slots to add them

www.amazon.in/dp/B0CFF4S5H1

This should be enough IMO. Look into linux drivers yourself. Usually AMD side is better.

www.amazon.in/dp/B0CJ2KTSV5/

This has an even better CPU & display.

AMD CPUs are more efficient than Intel ones generally, except for Intel's latest Core ultra series.

FYI - core ultra 7 155H performs around 7840U territory, so ultra 5 is inferior in performance. To state the obvious R7 7730U is inferior to both, maybe by 20%.

omega44-xt said:
www.amazon.in/dp/B0CFF4S5H1

This should be enough IMO. Look into linux drivers yourself. Usually AMD side is better.

www.amazon.in/dp/B0CJ2KTSV5/

This has an even better CPU & display.

AMD CPUs are more efficient than Intel ones generally, except for Intel's latest Core ultra series.

FYI - core ultra 7 155H performs around 7840U territory, so ultra 5 is inferior in performance. To state the obvious R7 7730U is inferior to both, maybe by 20%.

Alright, buying the Ideapad. Couldn't check the linux compatibility. Or anything about this laptop. Reviews are pretty scarce.

Not related but look what I found researching this topic:

*www.amazon.in/Lenovo-IdeaPad-39-62cm-Warranty-82H803LPIN/dp/B0C6HTW7R8

Seems like serious mislable. Discription makes sense, but the product title says core 9 ultra 185H, 32 GB RAM and 1TB SSD with OLED panel at 60K

Æsoteric Positron said:
Not related but look what I found researching this topic:

**www.amazon.in/Lenovo-IdeaPad-39-62cm-Warranty-82H803LPIN/dp/B0C6HTW7R8
Seems like serious mislable. Discription makes sense, but the product title says core 9 ultra 185H, 32 GB RAM and 1TB SSD with OLED panel at 60K

Real specs are in the description, I guess

@omega44-xt thanks for your suggestions. Bought the ideapad @58K with bank offers. Didn't really need a 2K OLED, so chose this over HP. Cheers!

@omega44-xt Do you know of any Laptop in the range of 70-75k with something like an H series processor(Preferably AMD). Graphics card is not required. RAM >=16GB. Also, would Like to avoid lenovo (Asus would be my preference). I know this is vague but I basically need a good speed processor and good amount of RAM as no gaming will be done but Coding and Containers.

RumbaMon19 said:
@omega44-xt Do you know of any Laptop in the range of 70-75k with something like an H series processor(Preferably AMD). Graphics card is not required. RAM >=16GB. Also, would Like to avoid lenovo (Asus would be my preference). I know this is vague but I basically need a good speed processor and good amount of RAM as no gaming will be done but Coding and Containers.

Asus is under fire for its RMA practices, likely they wanted to scam customers, internally trained everyone sometime last year & then Gamers Nexus happened.

www.amazon.in/Lenovo-i5-13450HX-300Nits-Graphics-83DV00BHIN/dp/B0CX8V9C7D/

www.amazon.in/dp/B0CJ2KTSV5/

Take your pick. Latter has the faster CPU & better display, but no RAM upgradability.

omega44-xt said:
Asus is under fire for its RMA practices, likely they wanted to scam customers, internally trained everyone sometime last year & then Gamers Nexus happened.

www.amazon.in/Lenovo-i5-13450HX-300Nits-Graphics-83DV00BHIN/dp/B0CX8V9C7D/

www.amazon.in/dp/B0CJ2KTSV5/

Take your pick. Latter has the faster CPU & better display, but no RAM upgradability.

There's also a huge weight difference. Lenovo one is significantly heavier maybe because of dedicated GPU

omega44-xt said:
Take your pick. Latter has the faster CPU & better display, but no RAM upgradability.

Guess will have to go with pavillion then.

Suppose I extend my budget to 80-90K, and leave RAM upgradeability, Anything in that category?

Why Pavilion? when you can get an HP Victus for that price. You can upgrade the ram and ssd. Some models come with dual ssd options.
Avoid rx6500 gpu and any 4gb vram gpu option.

Gollum said:
Why Pavilion? when you can get an HP Victus for that price. You can upgrade the ram and ssd. Some models come with dual ssd options.
Avoid rx6500 gpu and any 4gb vram gpu option.

Portability

omega44-xt said:
Portability

It's portable only if you get Pavilion Aero. Other versions are heavy.

Gollum said:
It's portable only if you get Pavilion Aero. Other versions are heavy.

If you think a 14" 1.4kg laptop is not more portable than a 16" 2.3kg laptop, then I have nothing to add.

omega44-xt said:
If you think a 14" 1.4kg laptop is not more portable than a 16" 2.3kg laptop, then I have nothing to add.

Not in that way. Pavilion comes in different sizes and form factors. Starting from 13" to 15"
A 15" x360 weighs similar to a 15" victus.

If the new Omnibook was cheaper I would have definitely recommended it. I'm going to test it today. The real-world battery life is expected to be much better. Will try to create a small review.

Just recieved the laptop, there are some problems.
1. The warranty was already 10 months into expiry when I got the laptop when I checked with the serial number. I applied for a warranty change on lenovo website, but no emails from them and no record of the request on their website once I refresh it. I contacted their customer service and they said to register on *buyalenovo.com/register/ but didn't get a update from this portal too.
2. The screen is visibly more yellow from any other screen I have. Colors are significantly warmer, not just to mine but everyone's eyes. I did some research and it may be because of TUV protection on this model? Anyway its pretty annoying and its like nightmode is on all the time(Its even in the bios screen so I doubt its got anything to do with the software).

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This is a custom configured Leniovo Ideapad Pro 5.

*www.lenovo.com/in/en/configurator/...id=88f1113d-7116-4f74-90b0-e5a8cc46fac8&ecpn=

what do you think about this @omega44-xt @Gollum ??

I would not buy Lenovo anyday. There is just no quality control, poor customer care and after sales support.

Gollum said:
I would not buy Lenovo anyday. There is just no quality control, poor customer care and after sales support.

I have cases of very quality with Dell as well. I have Alienware, my father has XPS 13 & cousin has a Inspiron. Cousin's laptop's hinge broke recently after 2.5 years, it was a 50k+ laptop & I thought hinge issues were rare. After the abundance of cases in early 2010s, most 40k+ laptops have decent hinge now.

Almost any laptop display hinge can break if you apply enough force.
But, Most of them break because of people opening and closing the display lid from only 1 corner. Display of laptops should always be printed from the center above the webcam.

On quality I was referring to display backlight bleed. And keyboard keys popping off with AC adapter socket issues.

So, it has been 4 days and I didn't receive a updated warranty yet. They said that they will update within 24 hours when I put in the request. I escalated the issue on their escalation form with

I applied for correction on the warranty date within this website. A popup came with a message that told me to wait for 24 hours for a confirmation of warranty update in my email. Now, it has been more than 48 hours and I have received no such email. I called the premium call number, and they told me to write to pop@lenovo.com to get warranty update, and I didn't receive any confirmation from them either. Every other laptop I have owned didn't get a issue like this.

and this is the reply I got:

Dear User,
Greetings and Thanks for contacting us. Please be informed that kindly reach to concern warranty team to get it checked for you and they will assist you accordingly.
Meanwhile please share invoice copy and system backside serial number snaps with pop team.
pop@lenovo.com

Thank you.

As they haven't attached email of a warranty team I don't know where to go from here. I had already told them I have written to pop@lenovo.
Edit: I am writing to lenreg_anz@lenovo.com but I have my hopes low.

Call their tech support and get it done.

Gollum said:
Call their tech support and get it done.

Called it one too many times. They keep saying give us a day and a day later nothing is done.

Finally got the updated warranty.

For future reference, for an Indian customer, write to pop@lenovo.com with all purchase proofs. Wait a few days, if you don't get any reply talk to customer service and keep badgering them. Bothering with the official portal seemed to be a waste of time.

Thanks a lot guys. Been happy with my purchase. There were some issues (like touchpad doesn't work sometimes) but overall very solid purchase.

Æsoteric Positron said:
Thanks a lot guys. Been happy with my purchase. There were some issues (like touchpad doesn't work sometimes) but overall very solid purchase.

Could you share the laptop model, specs and price?

powerstarprince said:
Could you share the laptop model, specs and price?

Extremely sorry for the delay, forgot to checkin to the forum.

Here's the model: 82XE0072IN
Amazon link: www.amazon.in/dp/B0CFF4S5H1
Flipkart link: *dl.flipkart.com/s/oL8_S!uuuN

I think it's not worth buying now though, perhaps laptop prices have increased a lot due to RAM shortage but I bought it for 70K and now it shows 90K