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Pre­vi­ous­ly, to buy a good lap­top, you had to leave a decent amount of mon­ey in the store. But now, due to the great com­pe­ti­tion in the mar­ket, man­u­fac­tur­ers are try­ing to pro­duce many PC con­fig­u­ra­tions for dif­fer­ent price seg­ments. We have divid­ed our rat­ing by type of activ­i­ty and in each cat­e­go­ry we have iden­ti­fied mod­els that are ide­al for cer­tain tasks:

pur­pose	Tasks	Min­i­mum Require­ments
For work	Work­ing with doc­u­ments, spread­sheets, vis­it­ing web pages, the need to con­nect a print­er, scan­ner, mouse;	Proces­sor: Intel core i3 or AMD Ryzen 3 Video card: Intel UHD Graph­ics RAM: 8 GB Hard disk: 256 GB Auton­o­my: from 6 hours Inter­faces: at least two USB ports, eSA­TA, SD card port, audio jack (3.5 mm jack), Eth­er­net;
For study	Work­ing with Word, Excel pro­grams, search­ing for infor­ma­tion on the Inter­net;	Proces­sor: Intel core i3 or AMD Ryzen 3 Video card: Intel UHD Graph­ics RAM: 8 GB Hard disk: 256 GB Auton­o­my: from 6 hours Inter­faces: at least two USB ports, eSA­TA, SD card port, audio jack (3.5 mm jack);
For home	View mail, chat in instant mes­sen­gers, view video con­tent;	Proces­sor: Intel Atom, Celeron, Pen­tium Video card: Intel UHD Graph­ics RAM: 8 GB Hard disk: 256 GB Auton­o­my: from 2 hours Inter­faces: at least two USB ports, eSA­TA, HDMI, audio jack (3.5 mm jack);
For the Inter­net	Surf­ing the Inter­net, watch­ing videos and pho­tos in social net­works;	Proces­sor: Intel Atom, Celeron, Pen­tium Video card: Intel UHD Graph­ics RAM: 8 GB Hard disk: 256 GB Auton­o­my: from 6 hours Inter­faces: at least two USB ports, eSA­TA, HDMI, audio jack (3.5 mm jack);
For games, graph­ics pro­grams and edit­ing	Work with­out inter­rup­tion in pro­grams such as Corel­Draw and Adobe Illus­tra­tor; smooth game with­out lag and good graph­ics.	Proces­sor: Intel core i5, AMD Ryzen 5 Video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 RAM: 16 GB Hard dri­ve: 512 GB Auton­o­my: from 3 hours Inter­faces: at least two USB ports, eSA­TA, HDMI, audio jack (3.5 mm jack).

Editor’s Choice

Acer Aspire 7 A715-75G-42G (for graphics software and editing)

A mod­el with an Intel Core i7 proces­sor and a dis­crete NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 graph­ics card is suit­able for those who are fond of pho­to pro­cess­ing and video edit­ing. For exam­ple, the lap­top can han­dle work in Corel­Draw and Adobe Illus­tra­tor with­out any prob­lems. The 15.6‑inch IPS screen with 300 nits of bright­ness and 72% sRGB col­or gamut isn’t ide­al for pho­to and video pro­fes­sion­als, but for ama­teurs and begin­ners it’s a decent val­ue for mon­ey. The PC has 8 GB of RAM, which is enough for nor­mal pro­cess­ing speed, and the SSD hard dri­ve is 512 GB.

From the inter­faces on the left side there are RJ-45, HDMI and three USB 3.1 Gen1 ports, one of which is Type‑C. On the right is USB 2.0 and a 3.5mm micro­phone and head­phone jack. This lap­top lacks an addi­tion­al SD card slot. The bat­tery life when surf­ing the Inter­net is about 10 hours, when pro­cess­ing pho­tos, the time is notice­ably reduced to 5. There is a key­board back­light, and a fin­ger­print scan­ner is built into the touch­pad area.

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Despite the plas­tic case, the lap­top is made with high qual­i­ty, but with strong hand pres­sure on the key­board area, it flex­es a lit­tle. Lacon­ic design with­out super­flu­ous ele­ments and good “stuff­ing” make this lap­top ver­sa­tile both for home use and for work, games and graph­ic tasks.

Main characteristics

CPU	Intel Core i7 10750H
Dis­play	15.6 inch­es
RAM	8 GB
video card	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
HDD	512 GB
Approx­i­mate bat­tery life	5 o’clock
The weight	2.15 kg

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Lacon­ic design, good proces­sor, IPS matrix, key­board back­light, fin­ger­print scan­ner

No SD card slot, plas­tic case flex­es under hand pres­sure

MSI Alpha 15 (for gaming)

An all-in-one lap­top with an AMD Ryzen 5 5600H proces­sor and an AMD Radeon Rx 6600M graph­ics card designed for gam­ing (Witch­er 3, Shad­ow of the Tomb Raider), but also suit­able for every­day use. There is 8 GB of RAM (can be dou­bled) and 512 GB of inter­nal mem­o­ry, there is also an emp­ty space for installing anoth­er 2.5‑inch SSD dri­ve. Of the plus­es, we can high­light the Cool­er Boost key, which speeds up the oper­a­tion of the fans and helps to reduce the degrees dur­ing a long game (how­ev­er, the noise from them will be very strong). The oper­at­ing time with­out recharg­ing in game mode will be about 4 hours.

This mod­el uses a 15.6‑inch IPS-matrix with a res­o­lu­tion of 1920x1080 pix­els. From the inter­faces on the left — Eth­er­net port, HDMI and mini-Dis­play­Port, one each USB 3.2 Gen1 A‑type and C‑type, as well as two 3.5 mm “mini-jack” for con­nect­ing head­phones and a micro­phone, on the right — two USB 3.2 Gen1 A‑type and SD card port.

The lid of the lap­top and the area around the key­board is made of met­al, and every­thing else is plas­tic, but the lap­top is made of high qual­i­ty and durable. There is also a cus­tomiz­able key­board back­light. For exam­ple, you can select a bright­ness mode that match­es the bright­ness of the dis­play.

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Top 6 best budget laptops for work

1.Asus VivoBook 15

The mobile and styl­ish Asus Vivo­Book 15 lap­top is suit­able for every­day use at work. The 15.6‑inch 1920x1080 OLED screen with up to 400 nits of bright­ness won’t tire your eyes. The dual-core Intel Core i3 proces­sor and Intel UHD Graph­ics graph­ics card can with­stand both casu­al games and cope with unde­mand­ing office pro­grams (Word, Excel). RAM is 8 GB. The 256 GB hard dri­ve isn’t big enough to store per­son­al and work files, but there’s room for a 2.5‑inch SATA dri­ve, which gives you a decent 512 GB.

The touch­pad is very sen­si­tive and eas­i­ly tracks touch­es, in addi­tion, it has a built-in fin­ger­print scan­ner. The top cov­er of the note­book is made of ABS resin with an alu­minum coat­ing for added dura­bil­i­ty. The rest of the case is made of plas­tic, on which fin­ger­prints remain.

Of the small minus­es, you can high­light the bat­tery life of about 5 hours in office appli­ca­tions, while the device is equipped with a fast charge func­tion (75% in one hour), as well as a eas­i­ly soiled case.

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The best ultra­books

Light­weight lap­tops with long bat­tery life for mobile peo­ple

2. HP 15s-eq1129ur

The lap­top mod­el is per­fect for office work. The high-qual­i­ty 15.6‑inch Full HD screen with thin bezels and IPS matrix has a wide view­ing angle and good col­or repro­duc­tion, which will allow your eyes not to get tired quick­ly dur­ing long-term use of the PC. The fill­ing of the mod­el is suit­able for fruit­ful work with office appli­ca­tions: a proces­sor from the man­u­fac­tur­er AMD Athlon 3020e, 4 GB RAM and a 256 GB hard dri­ve (there is no addi­tion­al space for anoth­er dri­ve).

The oper­at­ing time of the device with­out recharg­ing is very decent — about 7 hours of use in office appli­ca­tions. Espe­cial­ly con­ve­nient for those who pre­fer remote work. The device has a 45 W fast charg­ing func­tion — in just an hour and a half, the lap­top is ful­ly charged. The mod­el has the fol­low­ing slots: HDMI, two USB 1 ports, USB 3.1 Type‑C and a 3.5 mm head­phone jack.

Accord­ing to con­sumer reviews, the dis­ad­van­tages of this device will be the lim­it­ed vis­i­bil­i­ty of the pic­ture in the sun, and the fan in the cool­ing sys­tem is very noisy dur­ing pro­longed oper­a­tion.

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3. Acer Aspire 1 A114-21-R0ME

The AMD Athlon Sil­ver 3050U proces­sor allows you to work in sev­er­al pro­grams simul­ta­ne­ous­ly with­out slow­ing down or freez­ing. A good time with­out recharg­ing the device (6 hours) makes it pos­si­ble to take it with you dur­ing busi­ness trips or use it remote­ly. A small diag­o­nal of 14 inch­es has a res­o­lu­tion of 1366x768 pix­els, which gives a clear and bright pic­ture. A plus is the mat­te fin­ish of the screen, which pro­tects it from glare.

Accord­ing to cus­tomer reviews, the PC has a noisy key­board key­stroke, strong heat­ing of the low­er part of the case when watch­ing movies, and a eas­i­ly soiled mat­te cov­er (prints remain).

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4.Lenovo V15-ADA

Anoth­er option suit­able for work is the Leno­vo V15-ADA. This lap­top can han­dle both video calls and using sev­er­al pro­grams at once (text edi­tors, instant mes­sen­gers) thanks to the AMD Athlon 3020e proces­sor. The mod­el has the abil­i­ty to choose dif­fer­ent con­fig­u­ra­tions (with a dif­fer­ent choice of proces­sors and video cards up to 6 options). We have select­ed the most bud­get ver­sion. On the pos­i­tive side, a fair­ly large 15.6‑inch screen with high-qual­i­ty image trans­mis­sion, a respon­sive touch­pad, a soft key­board and decent bat­tery life (8 hours) when surf­ing social net­works.

Of course, the built-in mem­o­ry of 128 GB is not enough, but there is an addi­tion­al slot for installing anoth­er dri­ve. Also, users note that the case is eas­i­ly scratched.

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5. Dell Inspiron 3542

Bud­get but styl­ish lap­top is per­fect for office work. The Intel Pen­tium 3558U proces­sor with 4 GB of RAM is just designed for easy work in text pro­grams. 500 GB of hard dri­ve space will be enough to store work and per­son­al files. This mod­el has 3 USB ports, HDMI, a 3.5 mm head­phone out­put and an SD card slot.

The device is qual­i­ta­tive­ly assem­bled and does not bend under the pres­sure of the hand. Under nor­mal load, bat­tery life will be 6 hours. The 15.6‑inch screen with a glossy fin­ish has a lot of glare. Also, users note the high fan noise dur­ing long oper­a­tion and the eas­i­ly soiled sur­face of the case.

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6. HP Pavilion 14-dv0041ur

An excel­lent gad­get for work and study, with a pre­in­stalled Win­dows oper­at­ing sys­tem and a back­lit key­board. Pow­er­ful, ener­gy effi­cient, bal­anced, durable and aes­thet­ic mod­el. Con­ve­nient for work­ing on the Inter­net and with doc­u­ments, stor­ing pho­tos. The HP Pavil­ion 14-dv0041ur han­dles high-def­i­n­i­tion video well, so watch­ing movies on it is a plea­sure.

A nice bonus to the mer­its of the mod­el is an attrac­tive sil­ver body and an opti­mal screen res­o­lu­tion for mod­ern lap­tops — 1920 × 1080 pix­els. Among oth­er things, this lap­top can be charged with any pow­er bank or charg­ing from a smart­phone.

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Ranking of the top 6 best inexpensive laptops for study

1. Asus E410

A great option for study­ing in the form of a light­weight (1.3 kg) and mobile lap­top from Asus. The undoubt­ed advan­tage will be a long bat­tery life (12 hours) at low loads, which is impor­tant for those who pre­fer to take a lap­top with them to the uni­ver­si­ty instead of note­books and pens. With an Intel Pen­tium Sil­ver N5030 proces­sor, 4 GB RAM and Intel UHD Graph­ics 605 graph­ics card, the mod­el can eas­i­ly cope with every­day tasks such as work­ing with doc­u­ments.

Of the fea­tures: the device has a touch­pad with the Num­ber­Pad func­tion, when touched, the pan­el dis­plays keys for enter­ing num­bers. The device has a pas­sive cool­ing sys­tem — there are no fans. Heat is removed by means of a heatsink and heat pipes.

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Based on cus­tomer reviews, the fol­low­ing dis­ad­van­tages can be dis­tin­guished: the cal­cu­la­tor on the touch­pad is not con­ve­nient for every­one to use, since it occa­sion­al­ly turns on by acci­den­tal press­ing. Many peo­ple do not like the design on the top cov­er of the lap­top.

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2. HP 255 G8

A pow­er­ful AMD Athlon 3020e proces­sor and AMD Radeon Graph­ics graph­ics card keep your lap­top run­ning smooth­ly. You will also be pleased with the IPS-screen with a high-qual­i­ty pic­ture from LG. 4 GB of RAM and a 256 GB hard dri­ve are enough to work with­out freez­ing in text edi­tors and work in par­al­lel in a web brows­er. With such a good bat­tery life (7 hours), this lap­top is great for record­ing lec­tures at school.

Plus­es will be the weight of the device (1.74 kg) and small dimen­sions (35x24x19 cm), which indi­cates the mobil­i­ty of the mod­el. In the reviews, con­sumers high­light loud key clicks when pressed and heat­ing of the low­er part of the case dur­ing long work. The design of the lap­top is quite restrained: a plas­tic case in black with a rough pat­tern on the top cov­er.

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3. HONOR MagicBook X14

The lat­est “mag­ic” lap­top with Win­dows oper­at­ing sys­tem is suit­able for work, study and Inter­net surf­ing. The styl­ish case of the mod­el with nar­row frames (only 4.8 mm) is made of high-qual­i­ty alu­minum, which adds to its plus­es. The lap­top is easy to car­ry, con­ve­nient to take on trav­el. The man­u­fac­tur­er has applied in the gad­get tech­nol­o­gy to reduce the bright­ness of the screen, mak­ing the work com­fort­able for the eyes.

Anoth­er fea­ture is that you can con­fig­ure the HONOR Mag­ic­Book X14 so that the screen of your smart­phone will be dis­played on its screen. This is very con­ve­nient for those who need to see mes­sages com­ing to the phone and calls with­out being dis­tract­ed from work on a lap­top. By the way, the lap­top charges quite quick­ly: in an hour — up to 70 per­cent.

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4. Haier U1550SM

Light­weight (1.5 kg) and com­pact mod­el from the man­u­fac­tur­er Hair will be an excel­lent assis­tant in your stud­ies. A decent bat­tery life (8 hours) will allow you to take a lap­top with you to the insti­tute to record lec­tures. The proces­sor from Intel with 2 cores can eas­i­ly mas­ter impor­tant pro­grams for study (Word, Excel) and search for the nec­es­sary infor­ma­tion on the Inter­net.

The advan­tage of the mod­el is a 15.6‑inch screen with an IPS matrix, which gives a high-qual­i­ty pic­ture at the out­put. And if you are con­fused by 128 GB of inter­nal mem­o­ry, then you can install anoth­er disk in a free addi­tion­al slot, increas­ing the total amount of mem­o­ry to 256 GB. Of the inter­faces, there are only 1 USB 2.0, 1 USB 3.0, mini HDMI and a 3.5 mm head­phone jack.

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5.Acer TravelMate P2 TMP214

Bud­get lap­top Acer Trav­el­Mate P2 is well suit­ed for study. The Intel Core i3 10110U proces­sor and Intel UHD Graph­ics graph­ics card will cope with basic tasks in the form of work­ing in text edi­tors, watch­ing videos and search­ing for the nec­es­sary infor­ma­tion on the Inter­net. The device is light (1.6 kg) and mobile due to the 14-inch screen. When writ­ing infor­ma­tion in a note­book, the lap­top will last 10 hours with­out recharg­ing. As for inter­faces, there are plen­ty of them: two USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type‑A, and one Type‑C, HDMI and VGA. Plus RJ-45 wired inter­net con­nec­tion, 3.5mm head­phone jack and SD card slot.

Of the minus­es, accord­ing to reviews, one can sin­gle out an insuf­fi­cient­ly strong lap­top lid, which bends when pres­sure is applied to it, and the pow­er but­ton is inte­grat­ed into the key­board — you can acci­den­tal­ly turn off the PC.

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6.Lenovo V15-IGL

A com­pact lap­top with an Intel Celeron proces­sor is suit­able for any basic tasks, whether it’s view­ing email, chat­ting in instant mes­sen­gers, or writ­ing mate­r­i­al in a text edi­tor. 4 GB of RAM and 256 GB of inter­nal stor­age are enough to use the PC as a study assis­tant. The 15.6‑inch screen has an anti-reflec­tive mat­te fin­ish and a TN matrix with a res­o­lu­tion of 1920x1080 pix­els.

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A Dol­by Audio-enabled audio sys­tem with 3D sound immer­sion will be a wel­come addi­tion. The set of inter­faces is stan­dard: USB 2.0 Type A, USB 3.0 Type A x 2, HDMI out­put and a micro­phone and head­phone jack. Of the minus­es, one can sin­gle out the eas­i­ly soiled sur­face of the lap­top, the noisy oper­a­tion of the proces­sor when watch­ing a video.

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Rating of the top 6 best inexpensive laptops for home

1. ASUS VivoBook X515JF-BR326T

A lap­top with a 15-inch diag­o­nal and a dis­crete Nvidia GeForce MX130 graph­ics card allows you to enjoy a high-qual­i­ty pic­ture while watch­ing your favorite movies. Inside is an Intel Pen­tium 6805 proces­sor that han­dles basic tasks such as surf­ing the Inter­net and view­ing mail.

RAM is 4 GB, inter­nal stor­age is 256 GB. At the same time, the device has addi­tion­al slots for M.2 and an SSD dri­ve, which will increase the amount of mem­o­ry up to 512 GB. With­out recharg­ing in movie mode, the mod­el can last about 5 hours. The lap­top is pro­tect­ed by met­al plates around the dis­play, key­board and inter­nal stor­age. From the small minus­es, accord­ing to reviews, we can con­clude that the speak­ers are weak at max­i­mum vol­ume.

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2.Lenovo V17-IIL

An inex­pen­sive 17.3‑inch lap­top with an Intel Core i3 proces­sor that accel­er­ates to 3.4 GHz at max­i­mum loads and allows you to quick­ly per­form every­day activ­i­ties (brows­ing mail, down­load­ing con­tent). The inter­nal dri­ve has 256 GB of mem­o­ry, and the RAM is only 4 GB, but if you wish, it can be increased. Good bat­tery life — 7 hours of watch­ing movies.

From the pleas­ant: the pres­ence of a cur­tain for the video cam­era and a fin­ger­print scan­ner locat­ed in the pow­er but­ton. The mod­el has three full-sized USBs — two of them are USB 3.2 Gen 1 and one USB 2.0, as well as HDMI, a card read­er and an ana­log 3.5 mm audio out­put. Of the minus­es: the lack of an addi­tion­al slot to increase the inter­nal mem­o­ry stor­age and key­board back­light.

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3. HP 255 G4

Styl­ish lap­top, sim­ple in its func­tion­al­i­ty and inter­nal con­tent, suit­able for use at home. Thanks to the AMD Athlon 3020e proces­sor, the lap­top copes with basic tasks, such as watch­ing movies, search­ing for infor­ma­tion, mon­i­tor­ing feeds in social net­works.

A bat­tery life of 6 hours with light loads (surf­ing the Inter­net) will allow you to take it with you on trips. If there is not enough inter­nal mem­o­ry (256 GB), then it can be increased. The 15.6‑inch screen has a TN matrix and anti-reflec­tive coat­ing. Of the minus­es: the noise of work at high loads and eas­i­ly soiled case.

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4. Acer Swift 1

At just 15mm wide and weigh­ing 1.3kg, this ultra-slim lap­top is your go-to com­pan­ion whether you’re using it at home or on long jour­neys. The device is equipped with a 14″ IPS dis­play with Full HD res­o­lu­tion. Addi­tion­al Acer Exa­Col­or and Blue­Light­Shield tech­nolo­gies reduce eye strain for more accu­rate col­or repro­duc­tion, while the Intel Celeron proces­sor ensures qui­et oper­a­tion.

The device is not equipped with a cool­ing sys­tem, which does not cause addi­tion­al noise when using a PC. But there is a pos­si­bil­i­ty of over­heat­ing of the device, which entails the fail­ure of lap­top com­po­nents and their replace­ment. Bat­tery life — 15 hours when using text edi­tors. Of the minus­es: the device is dif­fi­cult to open with one hand, and the pow­er but­ton is inte­grat­ed into the key­board — you can acci­den­tal­ly turn off the lap­top.

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5. Dell Vostro 3500–5643

Slim 20mm advanced mod­el with pre-installed Lin­ux oper­at­ing sys­tem. Equipped with a mat­te dis­play with a nar­row bezel. True, its res­o­lu­tion is slight­ly less than that of lap­tops with sim­i­lar char­ac­ter­is­tics from oth­er man­u­fac­tur­ers. Not already stan­dard today 1920x1080, but 1366x768. The screen matrix is ​​TN, it is low­er in class than IPS, which is used almost every­where today.

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At the same time, the mod­el has one free slot for expand­ing RAM and a lot of space inside for upgrad­ing, and an almost dimen­sion­less hard dri­ve. The Dell Vostro 3500 bat­tery uses Express­Charge tech­nol­o­gy to enable fast charg­ing.

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6. Prestigio Smartbook 141 C7

Bud­get lap­top for home Pres­ti­gio Smart­book 141 C7 copes well with basic tasks (surf­ing the Inter­net, watch­ing movies). There is not much inter­nal mem­o­ry (115 GB), but there is addi­tion­al space for an HDD dri­ve. The SD card slot will add 128GB more stor­age, which isn’t that bad any­more.

The lap­top itself is made of thick plas­tic, does not creak or play. The device has a stan­dard set of ports: USB Type‑C, USB 2.0, USB 3.0, HDMI-mini, SD-card out­put and a com­bined audio jack. A nice bonus when buy­ing is a felt case that comes with a lap­top. Cons of the mod­el: lack of back­light (incon­ve­nience of work­ing with­out light­ing) and poor qual­i­ty of the web­cam (0.3 MP).

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Top 6 best budget laptops for gaming

1.Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 15IMH05

Mod­est in appear­ance, the lap­top has a fair­ly dense body, a key­board with blue back­light­ing, a respon­sive touch­pad and decent inter­nal con­tent. The 2.5GHz Intel Core i5-10300H proces­sor and GTX 1650 Ti graph­ics card let you play games like The Witch­er 3 and GTA V.

The bat­tery life of the mod­el when watch­ing a video is about 7–8 hours, and when play­ing games — 4–5 hours. Of the minus­es, you can high­light the eas­i­ly soiled case and the glare of the screen when exposed to sun­light.

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2. DELL G5

The mod­el has an ele­gant design with­out frills and gives the impres­sion of an ordi­nary work lap­top. The Intel Core i5-10300H proces­sor, 8GB RAM and 512GB inter­nal mem­o­ry give the user a pleas­ant and smooth gam­ing expe­ri­ence. The key­board has a blue back­light, the touch­pad responds well to touch, and the mod­el has a fin­ger­print sen­sor under the pow­er but­ton.

Of the fea­tures, the pres­ence of the Alien­ware con­trol cen­ter stands out, thanks to which you can cus­tomize the lap­top for your­self (adjust­ing the cool­ing sys­tem, switch­ing from nor­mal mode to Tur­bo, set­ting the key­board back­light). The obvi­ous dis­ad­van­tages of the mod­el are the plas­tic case and the noisy cool­ing sys­tem.

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3. ASUS TUF Gaming F15 FX506HCB-HN0144T

The lap­top has a gam­ing design with clear lines run­ning all over the sur­face. This mod­el has a qui­et and pro­duc­tive NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 graph­ics card and an Intel Core i5 proces­sor. In a game like DOTA 2, the frame rate will be around 120 at high graph­ics set­tings (Full HD), and in resource-inten­sive games (Cyber­punk 2077, Metro: Exo­dus), you need to low­er the qual­i­ty of the pic­ture to the aver­age val­ue to get rid of stut­ter­ing.

The back­lit key­board has good trav­el, and the touch­pad sup­ports pinch-in and pinch-out ges­tures. The pow­er but­ton is locat­ed sep­a­rate­ly from the key­board. On the sides you will find a lot of ports: Eth­er­net (RJ-45), USB 2.0 Type‑A, USB 3.0 Type‑A x 2, USB 3.0 Type‑C, HDMI out­put.

Dur­ing the game, the lap­top can with­stand 4 hours with­out recharg­ing. The dis­play is equipped with an IPS matrix, which gives an excel­lent and smooth pic­ture dur­ing the game. Among the minus­es of the mod­el, one can sin­gle out a noisy fan in the cool­ing sys­tem and a plas­tic case.

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Gam­ing lap­tops

Choos­ing a pro­duc­tive device for heavy games

4. MSI GF63

The key­board keys have good trav­el and bright red back­light­ing. Thanks to the Intel Core i7 proces­sor and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX graph­ics card, the lap­top runs most games (The Witch­er 3, GTA V) at high qual­i­ty set­tings at a res­o­lu­tion of 1920x1080 pix­els. Of the advan­tages, one can sin­gle out the light weight of the device (1.9 kg).

Dur­ing the game, auton­o­my is about 4–5 hours. The case of this mod­el is based on met­al, so you should not wor­ry about its dura­bil­i­ty. The cov­er of the lap­top is mat­te, with a bright red logo. Accord­ing to con­sumer reviews, there are small cons: loud clicks of the touch­pad and unsta­ble touch track­ing.

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5. Xiaomi G Gaming Laptop

Light­weight mod­el (1.9 kg) designed for games. Bat­tery life is about 8 hours for web surf­ing and 4 hours for gam­ing. Inter­nal fill­ing in the form of a 5th gen­er­a­tion proces­sor from Intel and a gam­ing graph­ics card from NVIDIA allow you to play at an aver­age frame rate (30–40 fps). The RAM is 16 GB and the hard dri­ve is 512 GB.

The com­fort­able full key­board fea­tures RGB back­light­ing that auto­mat­i­cal­ly turns off after 1 minute of inac­tiv­i­ty. A cute design with straight lines imme­di­ate­ly says that this is a gam­ing lap­top. Based on con­sumer feed­back, the noisy fan in game mode and the soiled sur­face of the lid turned out to be the minus­es.

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6. ASUS M515DA-BQ058

The mod­el “pulls” not only tra­di­tion­al “work­ing” tasks, for which, as a rule, lap­tops are bought, but also repro­duces unde­mand­ing games quite well. Although the ASUS M515DA lap­top is far from gam­ing. True, the oper­at­ing sys­tem needs to be installed here, and this is a plus for the price. But the same Win­dows is installed with­out prob­lems and quick­ly. Pro­grams, accord­ing to user reviews, fly: all thanks to a pow­er­ful proces­sor with 4 cores.

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Rating of the top 6 best inexpensive laptops for the Internet

1. HP Pavilion 14-ec0046ur

The mod­el boasts a nice design, com­pact­ness, high-qual­i­ty IPS dis­play and a fast Intel Core i3 proces­sor. The device has a com­fort­able key­board with a good stroke, sev­er­al back­light modes and a respon­sive touch­pad.

Stay­ing on the Inter­net with such a device will become as com­fort­able as pos­si­ble. The lap­top has room for an upgrade if there is not enough mem­o­ry to store infor­ma­tion and cache (RAM — 4 GB, dri­ve — 256 GB). The pow­er sup­ply is not bulky (only 45 W), which is why the bat­tery life is about 4–5 hours even in pow­er sav­ing mode. As for the Wi-Fi, it oper­ates in the 5 GHz fre­quen­cy band (stan­dard). From con­sumer reviews, the weak back­light of the screen should be attrib­uted to the minus of the gad­get (char­ac­ters are poor­ly read­able dur­ing the day).

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2.Lenovo IdeaPad 317ITL6

A good option for surf­ing the Inter­net and watch­ing movies. The lap­top has a diag­o­nal of 17.3 inch­es and anti-reflec­tive coat­ing. The Intel Celeron 6305 proces­sor will be enough to work in the brows­er and par­al­lel cor­re­spon­dence in instant mes­sen­gers. Also, the mod­el has an intel­li­gent cool­ing sys­tem to increase the work with­out recharg­ing and reduce the noise lev­el.

The lap­top has a full key­board with­out back­light. When watch­ing a video, the bat­tery life will be 6 hours. The screen res­o­lu­tion is only 1600x900 pix­els — the pic­ture is not very clear and bright. Of the fea­tures, you can high­light the cur­tain for the video cam­era and the pres­ence of a fin­ger­print scan­ner.

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3. ASUS X415EA-EK608T

Styl­ish and light (1.5 kg) entry-lev­el lap­top — just right for brows­ing the Inter­net. Thanks to the Intel Core i3 proces­sor and 256 GB stor­age, the device quick­ly opens web pages and gen­er­al­ly allows you to com­fort­ably spend time when surf­ing the Inter­net and chat­ting on social net­works.

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The screen of the lap­top has an anti-reflec­tive coat­ing, and the key­board and touch­pad are com­fort­able and pleas­ant to the touch. There is an addi­tion­al slot for expand­ing mem­o­ry up to 512 GB. Of the minus­es, one can dis­tin­guish notice­able heat­ing dur­ing pro­longed use. And con­sid­er­ing that the lap­top is nec­es­sary for the Inter­net, it will last about 5 hours with­out recharg­ing.

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4. Acer Extensa 15 EX215-52–34U4

An afford­able and com­pact lap­top from Acer based on an Intel Core i3 proces­sor is per­fect for surf­ing the Inter­net. 4 GB of RAM may not be enough if, in addi­tion to brows­ing the web, you intend to per­form office tasks on it (for exam­ple, work in a text edi­tor). For this, it is pos­si­ble to expand the mem­o­ry up to 8 GB.

You can also install an addi­tion­al 2.5″ dri­ve for an addi­tion­al 128 GB to dou­ble the inter­nal stor­age (up to 256 GB). As for the dis­play, there is a TN matrix with small view­ing angles (90 ° to 150 °), but this will be enough for brows­ing pages on social net­works. The lap­top is made of plas­tic, and fin­ger­prints remain on it. Due to the lack of a back­lit key­board in the dark, using the gad­get will be uncom­fort­able.

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5. DELL Vostro 3500

The mod­el has an Intel Core i3 proces­sor and a mid-range graph­ics card from Intel UHD Graph­ics, which makes this device a good option for Inter­net search­es, watch­ing videos and work­ing with text pro­grams. If you use the device for the Inter­net, then with­out recharg­ing it will last 6 hours.

The case of the lap­top is made of durable dark gray plas­tic, the sur­face is non-stain­ing, fin­ger­prints do not remain. The key­board does not have a back­light, it will be incon­ve­nient to type in the dark. Also, the lack of a USB‑C con­nec­tor can be dis­tin­guished from the short­com­ings.

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6. DIGMA EVE 10A201

The cheap­est mod­el in our rank­ing is a plas­tic, small lap­top with a Win­dows oper­at­ing sys­tem. Suit­able for school­child­ren, stu­dents and oth­er users to per­form stan­dard office tasks. The machine is reli­able and even pulls “light toys”, giv­ing good per­for­mance at a low price.

The proces­sor is fast, the “iron” with­out brakes — that’s what those who have tried it in prac­tice say about DIGMA EVE 10 A201. The mod­el weighs less than a kilo­gram, and there­fore it is con­ve­nient to car­ry it with you: it fits in any medi­um-sized bag. Of the addi­tion­al “ameni­ties” — slots for expand­ing RAM.

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Rating of the top 5 best low-cost laptops for graphics programs and video editing

1. ASUS VivoBook 15 OLED

With a 15.6‑inch OLED dis­play, this lap­top is a great com­pan­ion for graph­ic design peo­ple. The screen pro­duces a brighter and more sat­u­rat­ed pic­ture than IPS, trans­mits per­fect blacks and pre­vents light. The inter­nal stuff­ing in the form of an Intel Core i5 proces­sor and an Intel Iris Xe Graph­ics graph­ics card allows you to cope with video edit­ing, graph­ic draw­ings and pho­to pro­cess­ing.

Bat­tery life aver­ages 5.5 hours when using resource-inten­sive pro­grams. The lap­top is quite mobile due to its light weight of 1.9 kg. It has a durable met­al case that pro­tects the device from mechan­i­cal stress. Accord­ing to con­sumer reviews, strong heat­ing of the low­er part of the case and a eas­i­ly soiled sur­face can be dis­tin­guished from the minus­es.

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2.Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Pro 16IHU6

Great styl­ish lap­top suit­able for graph­ics work. With NVIDIA GeForce MX450 dis­crete graph­ics with 2GB of VRAM and a nim­ble Intel Core i5 proces­sor, you can work effi­cient­ly on graph­ics projects. The mod­el is equipped with a 16-inch screen with a res­o­lu­tion of 2560x1600 pix­els and a non-stan­dard aspect ratio of 16:10, the dis­play refresh rate is quite high — 120 Hz. Bright­ness and con­trast will be at a good lev­el. In addi­tion, the dis­play has an anti-reflec­tive coat­ing.

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The Idea­Pad 5 Pro is made of met­al and is quite light at 1.9kg. The lap­top also has many dif­fer­ent ports: Thun­der­bolt 4, USB 3.2 Type‑A x 2, USB 3.2 Type‑C, HDMI and head­phone out­put. Of the minus­es, one can sin­gle out the touch­pad, which, judg­ing by the reviews, some­times does not respond to touch.

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3. HONOR MagicBook Pro

The device has an anti-glare IPS dis­play with a res­o­lu­tion of Full HD 1080p, an Intel Core i5 proces­sor and an NVIDIA GeForce MX350 graph­ics card, which togeth­er pro­vide an excel­lent assis­tant in the use of graph­ics pro­grams. Time with­out recharg­ing will aver­age about 8 hours when surf­ing the Inter­net and about 4 hours work­ing in Pho­to­shop.

The key­board is back­lit for com­fort­able use in low or no light­ing con­di­tions. Ultra-thin (thick­ness 16.9 mm), com­pact and light (1.7 kg) lap­top is made of brushed alu­minum. Thanks to the very thin bezels of 4.9 mm, the diag­o­nal of the screen is 16.1 inch­es. Con­sumers cite the small view­ing angle of the built-in cam­era, the lack of a full-size key­board, and the loud clicks of the touch­pad as minus­es.

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Lap­tops for video edit­ing

Choos­ing a home PC for high-qual­i­ty video edit­ing

4. Acer Aspire 3 A315-55KG

The lap­top looks mod­est, but the main thing is its inter­nal con­tent. The mod­el allows you to work with video edi­tors, pro­cess­ing and view­ing mate­r­i­al in Full HD res­o­lu­tion at high speed thanks to a dis­crete graph­ics card NVIDIA GeForce MX130 and 2 cores of the Intel Core i3 proces­sor.

Bat­tery life when brows­ing sites and mail is 8 hours, and when work­ing with edi­tors — about 4 hours. The lap­top is made of plas­tic, has a full key­board with­out back­light and con­nec­tors: 2 x USB 2.0, USB 3.1, HDMI, Eth­er­net and head­phone jack. No SD card port.

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5. HP 17-ca2041ur

The lap­top mod­el will cope with the con­ver­sion, pro­cess­ing and edit­ing of videos thanks to the graph­ics card AMD Radeon Graph­ics and the AMD Ryzen 3 proces­sor. The widescreen mat­te screen (17.3 inch­es) allows you to see even the small­est details and work both indoors and out­doors.

Bat­tery life will aver­age 4 hours when work­ing with graph­ic pro­grams. The lap­top can hard­ly be called mobile because of its size (415x272x25 mm) and weight (2.38 kg). The device has a full key­board, how­ev­er, with­out back­light­ing, and a respon­sive touch­pad.

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Leaders of the Past

1. ACER Aspire 5 A515-55–396T

This mod­el com­bines every­thing that a mod­ern user needs, who wants to get excel­lent qual­i­ty for a “lift­ing price”. Reli­a­bil­i­ty, per­for­mance, con­ve­nient con­trols and styl­ish design. The “chips” of the mod­el are a high-tech IPS screen matrix (with wide view­ing angles and high-qual­i­ty col­or repro­duc­tion), a 1 TB hard dri­ve and built-in mod­ules for wire­less data trans­mis­sion.

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2. Irbis NB260

This bud­get mod­el is suit­able for those who need a lap­top to access the Inter­net and social net­works — its proces­sor is unlike­ly to cope with more com­plex tasks. Actu­al­ly, the man­u­fac­tur­er hon­est­ly says that he con­ceived the gad­get exclu­sive­ly for these pur­pos­es, while equip­ping it with a screen with a high-qual­i­ty and high-con­trast IPS-matrix and a res­o­lu­tion of 1920 × 1080 pix­els.

Demand­ing users often scold the Irbis NB260 for its sim­plic­i­ty — some lack speed, oth­ers lack sound qual­i­ty, but every­one unan­i­mous­ly prais­es the mod­el for its dis­play. In addi­tion, unlike most of the more expen­sive mod­els from oth­er man­u­fac­tur­ers, this lap­top comes with a Win­dows oper­at­ing sys­tem.

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3.Lenovo IdeaPad 3 14ITL6

A big plus for this ver­sa­tile mid-for­mat lap­top is its wide view­ing angle dis­play with anti-glare coat­ing. Suit­able for home and work. The device, accord­ing to user reviews, is fast and pow­er­ful. Plays even high qual­i­ty video — Ultra­HD / 4K with­out prob­lems.

The mod­el is also equipped with an HD web­cam with a mechan­i­cal shut­ter. The man­u­fac­tur­er also took care of the secu­ri­ty of user data and equipped the Leno­vo Idea­Pad 3 with a TPM 2.0 hard­ware mod­ule, which is used to encrypt data and secure net­work authen­ti­ca­tion in a cor­po­rate envi­ron­ment.

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4. Xiaomi RedmiBook 14

The price of Xiaomi’s 18mm ultra­book is slight­ly high­er than we would like, how­ev­er, this mod­el, which is sim­i­lar in char­ac­ter­is­tics even to some gam­ing lap­tops from oth­er man­u­fac­tur­ers, is 20–30 thou­sand cheap­er than them. Accord­ing to user reviews, Xiao­mi Red­mi­Book 14 pulls many games, even at high set­tings.

Of the advan­tages — a 4‑core AMD Ryzen 3000 proces­sor, a durable alu­minum case and fast charg­ing via USB‑C: in half an hour, the ultra­book bat­tery is “filled” by half. The lap­top is easy to car­ry with you — to work, to study, you can take it on trips.

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5. Acer Extensa 15 EX215-53G-3212

Mod­el with­out an oper­at­ing sys­tem, but with a pow­er­ful proces­sor and an impres­sive amount of RAM. Most of the users give the Acer Exten­sa 15 a high rat­ing and the main advan­tage of this lap­top is its speed. A nice detail is the well-thought-out loca­tion of the Wi-Fi anten­na. Thanks to this, a reli­able wire­less con­nec­tion sig­nal is estab­lished with the gad­get. Con­ve­nient for both work and for watch­ing movies, as well as video con­fer­enc­ing.

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6.Lenovo V14 IIL

Com­pact, light­weight mod­el, made of mat­te plas­tic resis­tant to cracks. It is attrac­tive not only because the cov­er does not leave untidy prints, but also with the built-in TPM ver­sion 2.0 mod­ule, which encrypts per­son­al data, includ­ing pass­words. And this is very impor­tant for the secu­ri­ty of per­son­al infor­ma­tion.

Oth­er advan­tages — stereo speak­ers, a free slot for RAM and an anti-glare dis­play coat­ing: Leno­vo V14 IIL is com­fort­able to use even in bright light.

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How to choose an inexpensive laptop

Few can afford an expen­sive pre­mi­um device. More­over, if you need to sat­is­fy basic tasks using a lap­top, such as view­ing mail, search­ing for infor­ma­tion on the Inter­net, or work­ing in ordi­nary office appli­ca­tions, then this does not require a pow­er­ful device. And in order to make it eas­i­er for you to choose a bud­get lap­top for your needs, we will tell you about its main com­po­nents that you should pay atten­tion to when buy­ing:

CPU

The speed of your lap­top is direct­ly depen­dent on the proces­sor. For basic and sim­ple tasks such as open­ing web pages and run­ning office appli­ca­tions, Intel Atom, Celeron and Pen­tium proces­sors (which are found on most bud­get lap­tops) are suit­able. Mod­els with more pow­er­ful Intel core i3 (and some­times i5) or AMD Ryzen 3 and 5 have also become quite afford­able. You can already play unde­mand­ing games (GTA IV) or do video edit­ing on them.

RAM and internal storage

The amount of RAM also plays an impor­tant role in choos­ing a lap­top. It costs from 8 GB to select, oth­er­wise the device will sim­ply “slow down” dur­ing oper­a­tion. As for the inter­nal stor­age, it is nec­es­sary to choose devices with an SSD dri­ve with a capac­i­ty of at least 256 GB, which pro­vides high speed read­ing and writ­ing data. An addi­tion­al advan­tage would be the pres­ence of a slot for installing anoth­er dri­ve to increase mem­o­ry.

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video card

There are two types of video cards: inte­grat­ed and dis­crete. The first is in the proces­sor. It does not take up space, does not make noise and does not require cool­ing. But it has low per­for­mance and is not suit­able for demand­ing games or heavy appli­ca­tions. A dis­crete card is an inde­pen­dent ele­ment that requires addi­tion­al cool­ing and con­sumes a large amount of ener­gy. At the same time, it has the pow­er to cope with any lev­el of tasks.

Inte­grat­ed graph­ics cards are found in the fol­low­ing mod­els from Intel:

• HD Graph­ics 610;
• HD Graph­ics 615;
• HD Graph­ics 620;
• HD Graph­ics 630.

Dis­crete graph­ics cards install NVIDIA or AMD. These can be mod­els:

• NVIDIA GeForce MX;
• GeForce GTX;
• GeForce RTX.

The most bud­getary are options with the addi­tion of MX.

Display

There are sev­er­al types of matrix: TN, VA and IPS.

If you choose a lap­top for gam­ing, then you can choose a mod­el with a TN matrix. Thanks to the fast response time, the pic­ture will instant­ly change with­out blur­ring. And if you are going to work in graph­ics appli­ca­tions on a lap­top, edit pho­tos, or you care about col­or depth and con­trast, then an IPS matrix will do. It has a wide view­ing angle and col­or­ful­ly con­veys the pic­ture.

Also, depend­ing on your needs, you should select the size of the dis­play. If you need a com­pact and light­weight mod­el, then a diag­o­nal of 14 or 15.6 inch­es will do. And watch­ing movies, play­ing or edit­ing pho­tos will be more enjoy­able on a large 17-inch screen.

Interfaces

The stan­dard set of con­nec­tors for bud­get lap­tops are: 2 USB 2.0 ports, 1xUSB 3.0, HDMI and a head­phone out­put. The pres­ence of an SD card slot and a USB‑C port will be addi­tion­al bonus­es in some inex­pen­sive devices.

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Expert Review of Inexpensive Laptops

Shares his feed­back on the use of inex­pen­sive lap­tops and gives rec­om­men­da­tions for choos­ing such gad­gets Anton Mikhailov, Direc­tor of the Sales Depart­ment of the Cen­ter for Com­put­er Tech­nolo­gies “Vekus”.

“Unlike a per­son­al com­put­er, it is more dif­fi­cult to choose a lap­top, as there are quite a lot of them on the mar­ket both in tech­ni­cal per­for­mance and in the price range.

When choos­ing a new lap­top for myself, I often think about how to get max­i­mum per­for­mance at a mod­er­ate cost, for how long I buy it and how I will use it. These are very impor­tant ques­tions that every buy­er should ask him­self. A bud­get lap­top for every­one will be dif­fer­ent and with its own unique char­ac­ter­is­tics.

For exam­ple, if you often go on busi­ness trips, then you need to look at com­pact and light­weight lap­tops with a bat­tery of suf­fi­cient capac­i­ty (from 4000 mAh) and a long bat­tery life (from 6 hours). Plan­ning to use your lap­top at home to watch movies? Choose a lap­top with a large screen (from 15.6”) and a good audio sys­tem (large speak­ers, sup­port for Dol­by Atmos tech­nol­o­gy). In terms of con­tent, mod­els with a fast Intel Core i3 proces­sor and an M.2 SATA sol­id-state dri­ve from 512 GB are suit­able, which pro­vide good boot speed and oper­a­tion of the oper­at­ing sys­tem.

For games, lap­tops with dis­crete gam­ing graph­ics cards and a pow­er­ful proces­sor are suit­able. Prices in this cat­e­go­ry “bite” and do not look quite bud­get. The cost of an inex­pen­sive mod­el in the gam­ing seg­ment starts from 60,000 rubles. For exam­ple, mod­els with a pow­er­ful AMD Ryzen 5 5500U proces­sor and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 graph­ics card would be a good choice. This fill­ing is pow­er­ful enough to play most mod­ern games, as it has quite impres­sive char­ac­ter­is­tics for its price.”