Rating of the best budget laptops up to 20,000 rubles

A very large number of visitors to consumer electronics stores are guided mainly by products of the lower and middle price categories. Anyone who is going to invest in buying a laptop can find a solid device at a low price. Basically, these are very cheap instances of “nouns” - Chinese one-day firms. But it would be a mistake to assert that all firms promoting well-known computer brands on the market switched to the production of expensive “sophisticated” devices. We offer our readers a rating of the best laptops up to 20,000 rubles.

The best inexpensive laptops up to 20,000 rubles

In this price category, it is very difficult to find a device that is ideal in all respects. In any case, manufacturers have to sacrifice something, advertising potential equipment to their own owners. What exactly depends on the philosophy professed by the owners. Someone thinks that you can save on webcam settings. For others, the processor and RAM parameters are not decisive. Still others “forget” about the quality of the display.

Choosing an inexpensive laptop is just as difficult as a top-notch device

The buyer’s task is to correctly and comprehensively evaluate the reviews about an inexpensive laptop and correlate them with their own preferences. The main rule - the device should be selected solely on a functional basis.

Top 10 best laptops up to 20,000 rubles

Among the most successful inexpensive laptops include models of only a few well-known from Southeast Asia and America. The filling of laptops is rapidly becoming obsolete, and less and less items are equipped with processors of low and medium performance. This is what, first of all, affects the cost.

Here are the best budget 14-15-inch laptops, the price tag of which does not exceed 20 thousand rubles:

1st place - Lenovo IdeaPad 320 15 Intel

It is not surprising that the best “budget employee” of 2018 was the Lenovo device. The 15.6-inch display with a resolution of 1366 × 768 pixels does an excellent job of demonstrating multimedia files. For a price of a little more than 20 thousand rubles. The laptop has excellent build quality - no backlash or gaps.

Best low-end laptop of 2018

For those who like to spend free time playing, the budget NVIDIA GeForce MX150 graphics card is installed. It is enough for the device to work at medium settings. To ensure communication, the device is equipped with all types of modern ports. The best option for the price / quality ratio.

2nd place - ASUS X507MA

One of the best devices of 2018 with a minimal budget was the X507MA, developed by engineers at Taiwan's ASUSTec Computer. In order to "squeeze" into the price range, I had to sacrifice the speed of the processor. The Pentium N5000 chip turned out to be very successful, and coupled with 4 GB of RAM DDR 4 copes with its basic duties.

X507MA - small, yes deleted

The device has a matte 15.6-inch matrix. Its type is TN, so the viewing angles are not very large. But there are no glare and flare. Among the undoubted advantages of the device is the almost silent operation and very low weight (1.68 kg).

3rd place - Prestigio SmartBook 133S

This all-metal notebook has one characteristic that confuses customers. Its solid state drive has a capacity of only 32 GB. The developers offer customers to take care of the built-in memory capacity themselves. Main characteristics:

• processor - dual-core Intel Celeron 1100;
• RAM - 3 GB;
• matrix - 13.3 ", resolution 1920x1080.

The disadvantage of the laptop from Prestigio is the need to install a hard drive

RAM can be increased up to 8 GB. The device received a huge amount of positive characteristics from users. Of the shortcomings, many distinguish not the best build quality. Which, however, is not surprising for a gadget at a cost of 14 thousand rubles.

4th place - DELL INSPIRON 3552

Another inexpensive gadget with a Celeron processor. RAM INSPIRON 3552 from the American corporation DELL - 2 GB. The device is equipped with a 15.6-inch screen with HD-resolution (1366 × 768 pixels).

Advantages of the “baby” from DELL - HD-screen and high-quality assembly

This laptop is a vivid example of “tacking” a manufacturer between price and configuration. The maximum possible memory capacity is reduced to 4 GB, but a 500 GB hard drive is installed. The laptop processor is frankly weak, but the build quality according to user reviews is up to par.

5th place - HP 15-bs000

The main characteristics of the device are comparable to budget counterparts of other companies:

• processor - Intel Pentium N7310;
• RAM - 4 GB;
• the drive is a 500 GB hard drive.

"Budget" from Hewlett Packard - no worse and no better than others

15.6-inch matrix - with HD-resolution (1366 × 768 pixels). It is noteworthy that the low-cost device has a full 4 GB Intel UHD Graphics 620 graphics chip. In addition, the device is equipped with an effective cooling system.

6th place - ASUS VivoBook 15 X505BA

The second representative of ASUS in the top ten best inexpensive laptops. It features a sophisticated rounded design. The modern 4GB DDR 4 RAM compensates for the developers' savings on the processor. The rather quickly heating AMD E2 9000 is not the best solution. Another drawback is the noticeable color inversion of the 15.6-inch matrix.

VivoBook 15 X505BA - slim, stylish, and not too powerful

The laptop battery provides battery life for 3-3.5 hours. Another plus is the availability of the licensed Windows 10 Home package.

7th place - KREZ N1404B Travel PRO

A device from a company that few people heard about in the Russian market a couple of years ago. Its main advantages are a Full HD matrix with a diagonal of 14 inches and a solid state drive with a capacity of 128 GB.

Of the not very successful solutions - the installation of a not very powerful Celeron N3350 chip and rather weak hardware. As well as traditional problems for Chinese newcomers to the Russian market with service issues.

The appearance of KREZ in the ranking is an advance to a newcomer

8th place - HP Stream 14-ax000

A laptop that would never be in the ranking, if not for the absolute quiet operation and a catchy design. The case is made of seven colors plastic. The laptop lacks a cooler and an HDD. The amount of internal memory is minimal - 32 GB.

Unusually bright blue laptop color

Customer reviews indicate that he is able to work offline for up to 10 hours. Small sizes are ideal for short-term use at school or at a university. Moreover, the memory can be increased by installing an SD card. And Hewlett Packard gives customers the right to manage a cell in the cloud with a capacity of 100 GB.

9th place - HP 250 G6

Another Hewlett Packard model. In customer reviews, the main “minus" is called a cheap TN-matrix with a distinct inversion when changing the angle of view. The rest of the device is worthy of praise. The buyer can choose the option of data storage - HDD or SSD.

HP 250 G6 - Ultra Budget

Somewhat brightens up the impression of the failed matrix Full HD screen resolution. Despite the standard inexpensive processor, the hardware of the laptop is at a good level. If necessary, the user can increase the amount of RAM from 4 to 8 GB and install a 128 GB solid state drive.

10th place - Acer ASPIRE 3 (A315-21-63YB)

An excellent “training” laptop - simple and high-quality. Powered by an AMD A6 9220 chip with 4 GB of RAM. The developers installed a modern solid-state 128-gigabyte drive on the device.Matrix 15.6-inch matte screen - Full HD.

Smart Acer bundled with Linux

The processor is unstable at high temperatures. But the standard set of tasks of an office nature laptop performs flawlessly. The Aspire A3 comes preloaded with the Linux operating system. To install any other "OSes" bootable flash drive must be installed in the USB 2.0 port. The battery life of the device is 5.5-6 hours.

Gaming laptops up to 20 thousand rubles do not exist

Find a decent gaming laptop on the market with a price tag of 20 thousand rubles. - an arduous task. Units of models receive 4th generation Core i3 processors. On other devices, in order to "squeeze" into the budget price category, manufacturers put low-power processors. It is high-quality hardware that plays a major role in launching games with modern high-quality graphics. In addition, the device must successfully cope with heat dissipation. An ordinary laptop at the launch of any serious “toy” will last no more than half an hour.

Finding a gaming laptop at a low price is not easy

The minimum price for laptops that can cope with game modes for a long time is twice as high as the “budget” 20 thousand. The top three cheapest gaming devices include:

• Lenovo IdeaPad 330-15 (81DE01FYRA) - 47 thousand rubles.
• ASUS X570UD (X570UD-E4037) - 62 thousand rubles.
• HP Pavilion 15 Gaming (4PN38EA) - 71 thousand rubles.

All laptops have discrete graphics cards. The amount of RAM is 8 GB or more. Processor - 7th or 8th generation Intel Core i5. These are the minimum requirements so that the laptop does not end up in throttling mode half an hour after launching any serious game.