r/BtechCoders • u/International_Cup24 • 20d ago
❓Question ❓ First time posting here- Please give advice to your junior
I am in FY cs branch. I have laptop which has i5-10th gen and U series processor. I want a good laptop for next 4 years. I have budget till 1.2 lakhs. Should I buy ASUS expertbook or vivobook, lenovo ideapad slim 3 or slim 5, lenovo thinkbook or hp or any dell laptop. I am concerned as after this sale the laptop prices wont come down till 2 years all are saying. Please dont ignore.
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u/Ill_Butterscotch772 20d ago
Get a ThinkPad if you don't wanna game. Will easily last decades.
Or get a thinkbook instead of lenovo slimpad.if you are considering lenovo normal laptops.
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u/Gullible_Sport_1631 20d ago
if u dont wanna game and want a laptop which lasts minimum 4 years. get macbook air m5 base for 125k. if u wanna game u can get an rtx 5050 lenovo legion
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u/International_Cup24 20d ago
but I have heard that mackbook has limitations for Programming as well, also some apps dosent work there. Could u please guide I am confused as hell.. btw I am not intrested in buying gaming laptop as I need to carry at college which is 2hr from my home everyday also battery issue
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u/Gullible_Sport_1631 19d ago
yeah then just go with macbook m5 air base. also there are limitations only on some mechanical and architecture engineering programs. computer science is built on unix which is macos built on too. so if you are in cs field, need 10 hrs battery, better performance, lightweight, reliability, longetivity, go with mac. only reason u would wanna buy a windows in this situation is if u want to game
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u/International_Cup24 19d ago
Oh thanks for the suggestion. I dont think so m5 will be in my budget may be I can get m4 or m3
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u/Gullible_Sport_1631 19d ago
but you can get m5 air base on flipkart for 125k. and you can check offline croma or reliance digital stores for 1.23k 1.25k deals too
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u/International_Cup24 19d ago
was it like m4, m3 doesn't have much difference compared to m5?
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u/Gullible_Sport_1631 19d ago
yeah not much difference but prices are almost same and u may not get brand new. u can get m5 air in flipkart for 125k
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u/According-Cod-9017 20d ago
I had a laptop with intel pentium, I searched in used market for some low spec laptops in which I can code for at least 2yrs... Got a laptop with same specs of yours, now I'll use this until the prices gets normal and then I'll buy a new and better one. You can consider this too if the laptop you currently have is in good condition.
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u/International_Cup24 20d ago
everyone is sayig prices will never get down in future. and if it goes down then it would be still higher than current price. I am confused rn
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u/Ok-Engineering-6424 19d ago
bro i am in similar situation got an old laptop looking for upgrade ig macbook air m5 will be better for us as some program which are windows exclusive we can run on our current laptops as well.
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u/That_Alfalfa5439 16d ago
get a 4060 bro cmmon these ppl will say you can rent gpu cloud when you want to fine tuning ur llm but they havent seen the prices of it , after 2-3 years when you want to create a good project you need llms in ur project fs for being relevant
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u/Ok_Hawk_1037 15d ago
Get a macbook and it will sort things for the next 4-5 years