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Let me start with the basic questionnaire:
  • What's your Budget? I'm OK to spend up to 1.5L for the perfect laptop
  • What will your primary usage for the notebook be? Office work. When the office opens, entertainment
  • What size and weight considerations do you have? I would prefer a lightweight laptop within 1.5KGs
  • Any brand that you prefer, or any brand that you detest? Not looking to buy the Redmi, MI and Realme
  • Any other considerations? My primary requirements are below in the order of priority:
  • Good display: 400 nits + // IPS // HDR // good to have a color-accurate display with high contrast. I'm not sure about the longevity of the OLED screens and would like to avoid them for now. A touchscreen and a flip screen are not required
  • Ryzen-based: 6 Series for the new iGPU, OK with Intel too but may impact battery life. Don't need a graphics card
  • Type-C charging: This is non-negotiable. I'm tired of carrying many chargers
  • I won't buy a laptop every two years. So, I would require something that will last and receive support from the brand
  • Portable: 1.3 - 1.5 KG weight
  • Good battery life (8-9 hours of backup when using the browser - Chrome etc. // watching YouTube videos)
  • Good to have: Fingerprint Scanner, backlit keyboard, 2xusb-a and 2xusb-c and options to upgrade in future

My perfect laptop would be a ROG flow X13 with a better display, better airflow and thermals and Legion 5 pro like upgradability options. Or Zenbook S13 OLED with ips panel, better thermals and upgradability options.
The Legion 5 pro and Alienware X14 are pretty good too. Unfortunately, I would hardly use the graphics cards and that would be an unnecessary investment.
I have never used a Mac or an iPhone. Is Mac M1 or M2 air an option? I would hate the learning curve though.

Is there a perfect laptop for me? Please help me find out, thanks!
 
If you don't need Windows, I can't recommend MacBook Air M2 enough.

The battery life is just phenomenal, nothing can match the battery life there. No fan design so you need not worry about keeping it on bed. The screen is beautiful. It is very light weight (1.2kgs).

If you want to save a ton of cash and sacrifice a little here and there, you can checkout last year's Asus Zenbook 13 for 59k on Amazon. It weighs 1.14kgs. Nothing comes any closer to this weight while retaining these many features, that too at 58k.

 
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FXGalvatron said:
Macs seems like the ideal option for you. Perhaps an M2 with 16GB or an M1 Pro with 16 GB. Others can chime in for better options.
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john1911 said:
If you don't need Windows, I can't recommend MacBook Air M2 enough.

The battery life is just phenomenal, nothing can match the battery life there. No fan design so you need not worry about keeping it on bed. The screen is beautiful. It is very light weight (1.2kgs).
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Thanks for your recommendations. It seems the Mac is the popular choice here.
You are correct, the applications that I use hardly require any OS-specific applications. How is the display? I am not familiar with the Macbook air display. Is it bright and sharp and supports HDR?

Also, I would need to convince myself to move over to the dark side.

If you want to save a ton of cash and sacrifice a little here and there, you can checkout last year's Asus Zenbook 13 for 59k on Amazon. It weighs 1.14kgs. Nothing comes any closer to this weight while retaining these many features, that too at 58k.

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The Zenbooks are engineering marvels, no doubt. However, I'm skeptical about the longevity of the OLED panel. In Windows, we have a lot of static icons on the screen. Since the phenomenon of burn-in is real, I would not be comfortable getting an OLED screen.
 
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