Top 5 Laptops under $300 April 2016

Laptops nowadays are very necessary to one’s life. Be it a school work, office work or just for you home, Today we will tell you Top 5 Laptops under $300 US dollars. These Top 5 Laptops under $300 April 2016 are handpicked with keeping in mind every possible use including gaming, Yes, you can game on a $300 laptop. Don’t believe me? Check out the list and test it for yourself. So let’s get started –

Top 5 Laptops under $300 April 2016

5) Samsung Chromebook 2 11.6 Inch Laptop

Even though the Samsung Chromebook 2 costs just $190, the build of the laptop is no less than the $1000 Apple Macbook, with a cool metallic finish and a sleek design, this is the lightest as well as the most well-looking laptop in the list. It is running the latest version of Chrome OS and can do almost every task you will need except gaming. Chrome OS gives you the flexibility of using any web app based on chrome. This will help the laptop you utilize all its hardware capabilities to only one thing, web browsing, unlike other Macs and window’s laptops.

The Samsung Chromebook 2 has an Intel Celeron processor coupled with 2GBs of  DDR3L(Low power consuming) RAM. IT has a 16GB Solid State drive and by no means it is enough but you can always expand it by a micro SD card. The SSD storage in the laptop is super fast. The laptop ecosystem makes it very easy to store your data on the cloud, that is Google drive.  It also comes with intel HD graphics for all you essential needs. It will hardly take 5 seconds to boot up. It has an 11.6″ 720p LCD panel which is enough for doing word processing or even consuming media. It has a leather finish on top and a metallic finish on the bottom. It has a chiclet style keyboard and comes with 2 USB ports as well as one full-sized HDMI port.

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4) Dell Inspiron i3452 14″ Laptop

This is a mediocre device featuring a plastic body with some decent specs inside. Dell’s premium series is very popular amongst gamers and professional like its XPS and Alienware series. As a Dell laptop user, I will say that it is bang for the buck, The spec sheet is usually very good compared to other brands in same price bracket, though you will need to adjust to the bulk and low battery life.

The Dell Inspiron i3452 comes with an Intel Celeron N3050 processor clocked at 2.16Ghz. It has 2GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage(eMMC). It has a 14″ LED Display with Dell’s Trulife technology. Talking about the IO, It has almost every port including HDMI, LAN except VGA which is now days hardly seen anywhere. It comes with Windows 10 home addition along with Onedrive.The only downside of this Laptop is its battery life and the bulk. You can get his laptop for just $200 which is why this is 4th on our Top 5 Laptops under $300 April 2016 list.

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3) HP Stream 11-r010nr 11.6-Inch Notebook

This is that kind of a laptop which are always trending, This laptop was released a couple of years ago but it is still selling like butter. The HP stream 11 now comes with windows 10 out of the box. It is made keeping mind the need of students, from the tangy colours to its portable size. It has an 11.6″ display which is enough for daily use. It has a plastic body but is of high quality.

The HP Stream 11 comes with an Intel Celeron N3050 1.6Ghz processor which is a dual-core processor. It has 2GB of SD RAM and comes with intel HD graphics as well. It comes with 32GB of Solid state drive but with HP stream 11 you also get a 1TB of cloud space. Along with this, It also comes with a 1-year office 365 personal subscription for absolutely no cost. This can be termed as the Windows version of the Samsung Laptop which was presented at the beginning. The HP stream 11 also comes with a colour matching accessory which is an added bonus if you are that kind of a person who likes such stuff. This laptop comes with a battery life of about 10 hours of web surfing which is UNBELIEVABLE, It is in fact made for students. Talking about the I/O, It comes with a full-sized HDMI port, a USB 3.0 port, a USB 2.0 port and a micro SD port for expansion.

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2) Lenovo B01BAXQ61M 15.6″ Laptop

Lenovo is not a new brand, They have been making PCs and Mobiles from years and they even bought American brand Motorola a couple of years back. Coming to the laptop, the Lenovo B01BAXQ61M is a decent performer with some standard features like an Optical disc drive.

The Lenovo B01BAXQ61M comes with an AMD e1-6010 processor coupled with 4GB of RAM and an AMD Radeon R5 GPU. The best part is that unlike other laptops in this list, you can easily increase RAM by just adding a new DIMM. This laptop is a bit bulky but the form factor is really thin. Another pro of this laptop is that, that the chicklet style keyboard of this laptop is on par with quality, they key press feels real and it is one of the best laptops for bloggers who don’t mind the bulk. The laptop features a full sized HDMI port, VGA port, three USB ports as well as some other essential ports like LAN and audio. The only bottleneck I find in the laptop is the processor which gets fixed in the next laptop.

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1) Asus B019HZVHJ6 15.6″ Laptop

Asus has been making laptops for years and years, and this is their cheapest offering. The Asus B019HZVHJ6 comes with windows 10 out of the box and that too 64-bit. The Asus laptops are known for some solid build, a good lifespan and an almost excellent support.

This laptop came in the market just this year so it means that you are getting the latest device. It comes with an Intel Celeron Dual Core processor, 4GB DDR3L Ram which is expandable to 8GB as well as intel onboard graphics to make the experience much better. It also comes with a DVD writer and has all necessary I/O ports such as HDMI, LAN (RJ-45), USB 2.0, USB 3.0 etc. One added bonus of this laptop is its full sized keyboard and a great mousepad, this makes it an idle laptop for bloggers and writers who are looking for something in the budget. The laptop also coming with a whopping 500GB of storage. This definitely deserved a spot in our Top 5 Laptops under $300 April 2016 list.

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