A laptop is a necessity for college students and going by that, the laptops under 40000 mark is a good point to start looking for one.
You can get a decent performing and quite a feature-rich laptop that can handle most of the day-to-day tasks quite easily. You can easily use it for some casual tasks, daily presentations, and can also some entry-mid level gaming too.
Let’s have a look at the most important features while buying a laptop at this range:
CPU: At this budget, you will find the latest 10th and 8th Gen i3 and AMD’s Ryzen Processors. It is always better to go with the new 10th Gen chip as it has a 20% faster CPU as well as graphics performance than the old 8th Gen i3.
Both the Intel and AMD processors are quite similar in terms of performance.
RAM: You can get an 8 GB on select models and at least a 4 GB DDR4 RAM Variant in all models at this price. DDR4 is twice as fast as it is an upgraded memory technology. It also consumes up to 40% less power and delivers 50% more bandwidth than DDR3. So better battery life overall!
Storage: For storage, you will get individual HDD or SSD options at this price. In SSDs, you will easily get a 256 GB and 512 GB SSD. But in some select models, you can also find hybrid storage. SSDs offer 5 times higher data transfer rates (up 550 MBps) than normal HDDs but costs a lot more.
