Hey Guys,
My son is doing B.Des Product Design and the softwares he would be working on would be Blender/Solidworks/AutoCad/Revit etc. Looking for a Laptop for his college for around 1Lac. Suggest me the same.
TIA
Needs something with a Nvidia card. Try Lenovo Legion.
https://www.lenovo.com/in/en/laptops/results/?visibleDatas=4376%3ALegion
Most people I know built desktops instead.
He already has a desktop with Ryzen5 2600/16GB/Ti 1060 which he will eventually upgrade but he needs something for everyday carry to college. We actually went and saw Lenevo Legion as well as LOQ.
Also checked out the Asus Predator & Invictus series but honestly got too confused. Been on a Mac since 2013 and now all this doesn’t make any sense honestly.
Don’t know about a 1060Ti.
You can try to find Legion Slim 7i Gen 7 locally.
12700H + 3050ti, 2k screen, all metal slim build.
Can be had for under 1L especially if you use Unidays student discount coupons.
You can get better specs from other vendors but I’ve found their build quality to be lacking.
I dislike Lenovo LOQ series, build quality just isn’t there. Same for HP Victus.
Had an Acer Predator before (purchased alongside a friend), both died at roughly the same time. After sales is trash for Acer, YMMV.
actually Macbook pro is not a bad choice (above your budget but) just bcoz of the build quality, battery backup, consistent performance and great OS unlike this crp called windows 11, and if thats your son is not going to game or render too many 3d frames continuously.
If you’re going for windows laptops,
Ultraslims are great to carry but lacks cooling, so lacks wattage, so lacks performance. But higher end ultraslims are ok for this use case if no gaming no rendering. just 3d modelling in the view port.
Gaming laptops are a great fit for this use case - but battery backup can be very less, also battery dies completely in couple of years (in my experience). set performance profiles and keep switching whenever needed to extend battery a bit more.
Make sure it has a good GPU - rtx 40 series are a sweet spot, rtx 50 series are bit costlier for marginal performance gains. e.g. rtx 4060 laptops are same price as rtx 5050 laptops but 4060 will perform really for this use case. And cooling matters, these type of vented laptops have great cooling
I would skip low build quality like asus TUF etc. Atleast the top panel is aluminum that’s a plus.
Go for a little enquiry run to different showrooms. Have a hands-on experience. Collect information then you can buy online. (look like you already have)
also a major thing, be careful where you’re spending the money. Some laptops eat up cost in display like 4k oled 144hz etc but being spec wise average. some laptops build quality would be great but have ips display. see what that laptop is marketed as. A 1440p IPS with dcpi or 100% srgb and 74/90hz or something would really do the job here. he can connect to a larger color correct external monitor whenever he wants.
Once I checked showrooms to decide which laptop I want (for someone else), then went to lenovos website, it was diwali season. I bought a 45k (showroom price) laptop for 32k with additional 3yrs of accidental damage protection (it covers physical damage). I used diwali sale coupon and student discount etc to achieve such low price.
All the best for getting your son a perfect laptop.
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Do SolidWorks or Revit even exist for Mac?
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Ppl use parallels or vmware etc for such stuff. with right settings on m5 or m4 pro the VM experience is really good enough. Some prioritize the well rounded experience of mac over the shytiness of windows. The battery life and sleep-wake itself enhances the experience so much more. And by the way I did not say mac is THE CHOICE, I said its not a bad choice. After that one line my whole comment is about how to pick a windows laptop for the use case. 
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Just an advice: Don’t go with Macbooks, since most softwares might not work, or will have paid version. College might even provide liscences for Windows software, since they’re popular.
You can take a loook at Nvidia Quadro series Thinkpads(if there’s a new version). They’re terrible value for money in terms of GPU, but are solid and built for designing stuff.
Parallels on mac solves this problem. really amazing for a VM especially bcoz of coherence mode. but its understandable when you prefer native performance, windows is the way to go. no VM can beat it.
My Mac suggestion is bcoz, with microsoft’s “agentic os” approach they just make windows 11 more miserable day by day.
Thats upto you to consider it understatement. I have mentioned abt budget and that’s all matters to me.
If we are nitpicking, “around 1 lakh“ is not “under 1 lakh“.
MBP M5 is selling for 1.6 lakh with cashback atm. Thats above “around 1 lakh budget”.
I kept MBP suggestion in one line and spoke only about how to pick a windows laptop.
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I think Asus tuf f15 i3 13450hx with 5050 would be good best under 1 lakh
And LOQ 5050 with Ryzen 7 250 was available for 80-90k depending on offers
Acer has lot of complain for their Nitro series and bad service
Hp is well hp
And I don’t think paying 1.30l for legion is worth it for the same specs build quality can’t be that good
Excellent suggestions brother. Thank you so much for sharing.
Hopefully the OP is able to find out the laptop, which is most suitable for his son’s specific requirements. It’s quite a challenge to go through so many different options and prioritize those specific qualities, which would matter most in this specific user case.
Wishing the best to him for this decision.
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Thanks for the suggestion guys. How is Alienware laptops. Back in my days always dreamt of buying Alienware products. But sadly neither had the budget nor were they easily available in India locally. As suggest by all looking for something with better build quality. As for MacBooks since quite a few software’s don’t support Mac natively so that’s out otherwise Air M4 was no brainer.
Also which Processor better. Have always been an AMD/ATI fanboy but heard that CAD softwares works well with Intel/nVidia combo.
I would also suggest your son may reach out to his seniors to get a better idea on what they have and then take a call.
Maybe they may offer some more key advice.
Whatever you buy, don’t forget to get at least 2 years extended warranty which incl ADP (accidental damage protection) too (so total 3 years warranty incl ADP). Without this I wouldn’t suggest people to get even a 50k gaming laptop nowadays.
@OMEGA44-XT may suggest some models too.
The first review is complaining about thermal issue on the Amazon link you sent lol.
IMO no need to buy a gaming laptop, something convenient to carry with good CPU should suffice:
Gaming laptop for 84k with HDFC CC:
https://www.flipkart.com/asus-tuf-gaming-f16-2025-office-2024-m365-basic-intel-core-i5-13th-gen-13450hx-16-gb-1-tb-ssd-windows-11-home-8-gb-graphics-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5050-165-hz-fx608jh-rv057ws-laptop/p/itm44eb1a88aa0d3?pid=COMHCQ4KVFK5BHYU
Do not buy a 16GB RAM laptop with non-expandable RAM.
Hey thanks for the suggestion guys, ended up picking a Lenevo LOQ with i7 14700HX + 32GB + 5060, 100% SRGB IPS display for 123K with 3 years extended warranty and a pretty decent laptop bag and wireless mouse. Bought it offline as online even the 16GB variant was coming expensive. Compared quite a few other machines as well but found this to the bang for buck.
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Post benchmarks and thermal test if you can