PC Builds, Electronics and Home Appliances Thread (3 Viewers)

[johny_baba]

a thread to discuss everything related to PC building, hardwares, Laptops, Tablets, Smartphones etc

 

[johny_baba]

so guys i made this thread to casually ask some questions or recommendations

> my 3rd generation Intel laptop of 2013 times is absolutely on "life support", keyboard is dead, even power button is dead, DVD drive is dead (but swapped it with a caddy and SSD anyways), 4 gb of RAM, hinge is broken and plastic shell is broken here-there that i affixed using strong adhesive, charger cables died so i replaced with locally available wire and dc pins lol...

and now even battery died

yet I kept on using it and would still love to use it with jugaadu things i do to keep it alive, but it feels like it's time to retire it...i literally have to short contacts on motherboard with a ballpen to turn it on after connecting with power lol, it's that near death

so, can someone give me updates about current scenario in laptops in India? which companies to follow and which should be kept at distance? what is good budget to get a laptop nowadays (back when i got it i got it for ~30k)

my requirements are
- i hate windoze 11 so I'd like to dual boot to Linux Mint, nowadays some generation of processors above 12th gen Intel etc that has secure boot/fast boot enabled by default messes up with dual booting
- preferably I'd like to buy OS less laptop (mine came with freedos back in 2013), but then Imma throw windoze 11 in trash anyways so not a big issue
- preferably unsoldered and swappable RAM sockets, above 8 gb
- a good GPU is ideal but I don't play modern games much anymore, so it's mostly for retrogaming or emulation
- 12th gen Intel or above minimum, but don't mind good AMD processors either, dislike so called U = Ultra Low Powered processors, if I'm paying for a laptop i want a fuckin' laptop and not some 10 years old computing performance huh
- MUST HAVE SEPARATE POWER BUTTON AND NOT PART OF KEYBOARD, I HATE THAT CUCKOLDING THING,
- screen size? don't really care much, but OLED is better
- weight? lol, don't care at all
- should be rugged enough for my kind of usage
- battery life? don't care much as long as it gives me some minutes of backup power when electricity goes out, i know it's a hard ask in this year of 2025 but removable is good

so overall I'm seeking a pc-lite thing and not some ultra portable thing in laptop here

 

[johny_baba]

as for smartphones

my current phone is from 2018 times, 4g chino phone that i mostly used as a hotspot for my even older computer above,

it works fine for my kind of very light usage, BUT NOW I CAN'T OPERATE BANKING AND E-WALLET APPS ON IT AS IT'S ANDROID 9 THING AND THOSE BHADWAS HAVE STOPPED SUPPORTING MY PHONE

so, just for fucking banking apps i have to get a new smartphone, huuuh

anyways, what are some recommendations just like above? which companies to prefer and which to keep at distance?

my requirements are...
>as much updates as possible with this one for long term usage of at least next eight years
>cameras ? don't really have any usage, good to have for any document scanning at maximum for me, I don't take selfies or photos of nature etc so yeah
>4g and 5g compatible
>dual sim
>expandable storage, preferably dedicated so it doesn't use up other sim slot, but woh ho toh bhi chalega
>oled screen preferred
>battery... should work good enough on one single charge that now i commute, muh fast slow charging I don't really care
>3.5mm headphone jack preferred par na ho toh bhi chalega me dongle laga ke headphones use kar lega
>muh processor this that cores... don't really care...koi bhi chalega
>muh RAM, same as above,
I'm not playing any gaymes on my smartphone so don't really have a need of something powerful in that regards
>should have USB OTG (suna hai aajkal yeh log iss basic se feature ko dene me bhi chindigiri kar rhe hai huh?!)
>size? matchbox jitna hoga toh bhi chalega, don't really care

 

[redpanda]

so guys i made this thread to casually ask some questions or recommendations

> my 3rd generation Intel laptop of 2013 times is absolutely on "life support", keyboard is dead, even power button is dead, DVD drive is dead (but swapped it with a caddy and SSD anyways), 4 gb of RAM, hinge is broken and plastic shell is broken here-there that i affixed using strong adhesive, charger cables died so i replaced with locally available wire and dc pins lol...

and now even battery died

yet I kept on using it and would still love to use it with jugaadu things i do to keep it alive, but it feels like it's time to retire it...i literally have to short contacts on motherboard with a ballpen to turn it on after connecting with power lol, it's that near death

so, can someone give me updates about current scenario in laptops in India? which companies to follow and which should be kept at distance? what is good budget to get a laptop nowadays (back when i got it i got it for ~30k)

my requirements are
- i hate windoze 11 so I'd like to dual boot to Linux Mint, nowadays some generation of processors above 12th gen Intel etc that has secure boot/fast boot enabled by default messes up with dual booting
- preferably I'd like to buy OS less laptop (mine came with freedos back in 2013), but then Imma throw windoze 11 in trash anyways so not a big issue
- preferably unsoldered and swappable RAM sockets, above 8 gb
- a good GPU is ideal but I don't play modern games much anymore, so it's mostly for retrogaming or emulation
- 12th gen Intel or above minimum, but don't mind good AMD processors either, dislike so called U = Ultra Low Powered processors, if I'm paying for a laptop i want a fuckin' laptop and not some 10 years old computing performance huh
- MUST HAVE SEPARATE POWER BUTTON AND NOT PART OF KEYBOARD, I HATE THAT CUCKOLDING THING,
- screen size? don't really care much, but OLED is better
- weight? lol, don't care at all
- should be rugged enough for my kind of usage
- battery life? don't care much as long as it gives me some minutes of backup power when electricity goes out, i know it's a hard ask in this year of 2025 but removable is good

so overall I'm seeking a pc-lite thing and not some ultra portable thing in laptop here

Get something with an AMD processor tbh. If you want to install Linux. That's all I can say. Those also give better battery life than Intel CPUs. Also Intel has locked undervolting in many of its laptop CPUs. I regret not purchasing the AMD variant of my laptop. Can't undervolt cuz Intel decided to lock it.

Budget batayen ? Kuchh recommend karenge hum pata ho to.

 

[Vinash]

so guys i made this thread to casually ask some questions or recommendations

> my 3rd generation Intel laptop of 2013 times is absolutely on "life support", keyboard is dead, even power button is dead, DVD drive is dead (but swapped it with a caddy and SSD anyways), 4 gb of RAM, hinge is broken and plastic shell is broken here-there that i affixed using strong adhesive, charger cables died so i replaced with locally available wire and dc pins lol...

and now even battery died

yet I kept on using it and would still love to use it with jugaadu things i do to keep it alive, but it feels like it's time to retire it...i literally have to short contacts on motherboard with a ballpen to turn it on after connecting with power lol, it's that near death

so, can someone give me updates about current scenario in laptops in India? which companies to follow and which should be kept at distance? what is good budget to get a laptop nowadays (back when i got it i got it for ~30k)

my requirements are
- i hate windoze 11 so I'd like to dual boot to Linux Mint, nowadays some generation of processors above 12th gen Intel etc that has secure boot/fast boot enabled by default messes up with dual booting
- preferably I'd like to buy OS less laptop (mine came with freedos back in 2013), but then Imma throw windoze 11 in trash anyways so not a big issue
- preferably unsoldered and swappable RAM sockets, above 8 gb
- a good GPU is ideal but I don't play modern games much anymore, so it's mostly for retrogaming or emulation
- 12th gen Intel or above minimum, but don't mind good AMD processors either, dislike so called U = Ultra Low Powered processors, if I'm paying for a laptop i want a fuckin' laptop and not some 10 years old computing performance huh
- MUST HAVE SEPARATE POWER BUTTON AND NOT PART OF KEYBOARD, I HATE THAT CUCKOLDING THING,
- screen size? don't really care much, but OLED is better
- weight? lol, don't care at all
- should be rugged enough for my kind of usage
- battery life? don't care much as long as it gives me some minutes of backup power when electricity goes out, i know it's a hard ask in this year of 2025 but removable is good

so overall I'm seeking a pc-lite thing and not some ultra portable thing in laptop here

Give a budget.

I myself use a Linux Mint powered Laptop.

 

[johny_baba]

Give a budget.

I myself use a Linux Mint powered Laptop.

between 30k to 50k is easy,
under 75k is manageable but may have to save a little

 

[shade2]

Saar, laptops have been cucked for many years now

>removable battery
>unsoldered RAM
>seperate power button

All gone today.

Your options are Dell, HP, Thinkpad onlee from Lenovo but those are expensive.

Like fat/g/oras you can also look into used thinkpad

 

[redpanda]

Saar, laptops have been cucked for many years now

>removable battery
>unsoldered RAM
>seperate power button

All gone today.

Your options are Dell, HP, Thinkpad onlee from Lenovo but those are expensive.

Like fat/g/oras you can also look into used thinkpad

There are modular laptop brands like Framework but those are now luxury product rather than commodity. And aren't available in India. Intel and AMD were also thinking of launching their own modular laptop brands but never bothered doing anything on that front since 2024. And ofc those won't be available in India either..

 

[Vinash]

Saar, laptops have been cucked for many years now

>removable battery
>unsoldered RAM
>seperate power button

All gone today.

Your options are Dell, HP, Thinkpad onlee from Lenovo but those are expensive.

Like fat/g/oras you can also look into used thinkpad

ASUS based out of Taiwan is pretty good too these days. I switched from Lenovo to ASUS to boycott China.

HP has gone to dogs these days. Dell is still good.

The combo OP's asking is tricky. Default DOS or Ubuntu OS laptops tend to be mediocre quality. Practically no option but to buy a Windows Laptop and then install Linux OS of your choice.

 

[redpanda]

ASUS based out of Taiwan is pretty good too these days. I switched from Lenovo to ASUS to boycott China.

HP has gone to dogs these days. Dell is still good.

The combo OP's asking is tricky. Default DOS or Ubuntu OS laptops tend to be mediocre quality. Practically no option but to buy a Windows Laptop and then install Linux OS of your choice.

50k mein Asus ka achha laptop nhi milega. Vivobook is there but it's uses those budget processors Johny baba don't like. Iss price mein to OLED ka chance bohut Kam hai upar se.

 

[johny_baba]

i know my requirements are so specific and out of circulation nowadays but i don't wish to compromise that much when i have to pay hefty monies for a lower middle class guy like me and have to make do with it for years to come

alternatively I was thinking of cheaping out on a good build of chromebook, modding it with linux and invest on building a desktop pc

 

[shade2]

i know my requirements are so specific and out of circulation nowadays but i don't wish to compromise that much when i have to pay hefty monies for a lower middle class guy like me and have to make do with it for years to come

alternatively I was thinking of cheaping out on a good build of chromebook, modding it with linux and invest on building a desktop pc

Dabba is always better

>no hinge no bs, monitor alag, speaker alag
>no soldered electronic bits ram, cpu, ssd do whatever you want men
>everything standard, replace whatever, whenever
>3 year min warranty on most parts

Desktop as main and laptop as secondary pc is a good setup.

Whatever clamshell thingie you are buying make sure it has or you can add more than 8GB of RAM, 16GB is ideal and get atleast 256GB or bigger SSD, for Linux better check if the wifi card works, intel wifi works out of the box.

 

[liberalredditor]

lenovo is the only long term option available

if you have 50k budget you can go for macbook m1 for 47k in prime day sale

 

[Nutcracker]

Thread already there.

Thread 'PC Builds, Electronics and Home Appliances Thread'

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My suggestion would be Vivobook zenbook models. Processor screen battery Ram lots of options available

 

[Anants]

Dabba is always better

>no hinge no bs, monitor alag, speaker alag
>no soldered electronic bits ram, cpu, ssd do whatever you want men
>everything standard, replace whatever, whenever
>3 year min warranty on most parts

Desktop as main and laptop as secondary pc is a good setup.

Whatever clamshell thingie you are buying make sure it has or you can add more than 8GB of RAM, 16GB is ideal and get atleast 256GB or bigger SSD, for Linux better check if the wifi card works, intel wifi works out of the box.

But one needs plenty of time to survey market, get components for right price at right time as apparently prices change every week or two. It was unobtainium hunt for 3-4 months to get right pc before I gave up.

 

[johny_baba]

Saar, laptops have been cucked for many years now

>removable battery
>unsoldered RAM
>seperate power button

All gone today.

Your options are Dell, HP, Thinkpad onlee from Lenovo but those are expensive.

Like fat/g/oras you can also look into used thinkpad

as a /g/tard myself

>func rant(on)

the world has gone fake and gay and retarded and normies ruined everything

problem is multifold
- normies used to take internet and computing so "nerdish" thing, most users of these techs were already above average users by virtue of dealing with everything on their own
- apple brought iphone and popularised that "smart" phone thing among normies
- normies, by nature of sheepiness, love everything that's hip or popular
they also love apple maal not because mac os is a bsd-fork and functional at terminal level but because KEWL
- apple tendency of keeping appearance while cutting corners with hardware, while keeping kewl looking GUI for softwares (reminder original macintosh used to advert itself as better looking than MS DOS and Win 3.1 style of early GUIs)
- soon everyone else starts following same trend to make their hardware thinner/slimmer, lightweight, "compact", attractive and so while sacrificing at quality, maintainability and repairability, upgradeablity
- normies rarely have iq above room temperature so if their hardware "slows" down they rather look at next hip thing in market, buy it and dumps previous maal to trash
- companies realise they can keep on milking normies with planned obsolence practices that involve making things unfixable at least or slowing them down at most
- the true "power" users like us are a minority so our opinions are never heard or declared "niche" and sidelined
- even in OS market, microshart is literally trying to adopt touch screen features in mainstream OS since years, starting with Win 8 and now 11 wants to be Mac-like OS in terms of basic looks...WHILE LITERALLY RUINING LOTS OF THINGS THAT MADE MICROSHART STAND STRONG = BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY AND USABILITY
- long term result = ENSHITTIFICATION of everything

my 2013 era laptop doesn't have underpowered U series cpu, and it's actually socketed means i can easily install compatible CPU for that socket on it GIVEN THEY ARE STILL MADE AND SUPPORTED - I actually thought of upgrading it with i7 when those used CPUs became cheaper enough but eventually dropped it thinking itne purane laptop me kya cpu upgrade karu

but at least i could do it, aajkal toh everything is soldered even fuckin' RAM huh?!

there was a time when laptops came in two fashions = thin and light and cosy for most normies, and thicker with more ports and upgradeable for office users and above

Dell had Vostro, HP had Inspiron, Lenovo had Thinkpads for most above average individuals, for serious modders Dell had Alienware (reminder even in 2016 they made laptops with PC CPU sockets and even GPU sockets so even graphics card could be upgraded in it) and Latitude, HP had elitebook...

nowadays most power subbrands too have adopted enshittified practices

i wish for thorough painful death and destruction of Apple

>func rant(off)

 

[shade2]

as a /g/tard myself

>func rant(on)

the world has gone fake and gay and retarded and normies ruined everything

problem is multifold
- normies used to take internet and computing so "nerdish" thing, most users of these techs were already above average users by virtue of dealing with everything on their own
- apple brought iphone and popularised that "smart" phone thing among normies
- normies, by nature of sheepiness, love everything that's hip or popular
they also love apple maal not because mac os is a bsd-fork and functional at terminal level but because KEWL
- apple tendency of keeping appearance while cutting corners with hardware, while keeping kewl looking GUI for softwares (reminder original macintosh used to advert itself as better looking than MS DOS and Win 3.1 style of early GUIs)
- soon everyone else starts following same trend to make their hardware thinner/slimmer, lightweight, "compact", attractive and so while sacrificing at quality, maintainability and repairability, upgradeablity
- normies rarely have iq above room temperature so if their hardware "slows" down they rather look at next hip thing in market, buy it and dumps previous maal to trash
- companies realise they can keep on milking normies with planned obsolence practices that involve making things unfixable at least or slowing them down at most
- the true "power" users like us are a minority so our opinions are never heard or declared "niche" and sidelined
- even in OS market, microshart is literally trying to adopt touch screen features in mainstream OS since years, starting with Win 8 and now 11 wants to be Mac-like OS in terms of basic looks...WHILE LITERALLY RUINING LOTS OF THINGS THAT MADE MICROSHART STAND STRONG = BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY AND USABILITY
- long term result = ENSHITTIFICATION of everything

my 2013 era laptop doesn't have underpowered U series cpu, and it's actually socketed means i can easily install compatible CPU for that socket on it GIVEN THEY ARE STILL MADE AND SUPPORTED - I actually thought of upgrading it with i7 when those used CPUs became cheaper enough but eventually dropped it thinking itne purane laptop me kya cpu upgrade karu

but at least i could do it, aajkal toh everything is soldered even fuckin' RAM huh?!

there was a time when laptops came in two fashions = thin and light and cosy for most normies, and thicker with more ports and upgradeable for office users and above

Dell had Vostro, HP had Inspiron, Lenovo had Thinkpads for most above average individuals, for serious modders Dell had Alienware (reminder even in 2016 they made laptops with PC CPU sockets and even GPU sockets so even graphics card could be upgraded in it) and Latitude, HP had elitebook...

nowadays most power subbrands too have adopted enshittified practices

i wish for thorough painful death and destruction of Apple

>func rant(off)

The joke is the consoomerist behavior you have described is something these gora normies do.
Indians would upgrade and repair-maxxx their stuff but since we don't (((( consoom ))) as much nobody cares and we have to live with the mass produced chinkshit result of gora being a fucking bugman.

 

[Anants]

as a /g/tard myself

>func rant(on)

the world has gone fake and gay and retarded and normies ruined everything

problem is multifold
- normies used to take internet and computing so "nerdish" thing, most users of these techs were already above average users by virtue of dealing with everything on their own
- apple brought iphone and popularised that "smart" phone thing among normies
- normies, by nature of sheepiness, love everything that's hip or popular
they also love apple maal not because mac os is a bsd-fork and functional at terminal level but because KEWL
- apple tendency of keeping appearance while cutting corners with hardware, while keeping kewl looking GUI for softwares (reminder original macintosh used to advert itself as better looking than MS DOS and Win 3.1 style of early GUIs)
- soon everyone else starts following same trend to make their hardware thinner/slimmer, lightweight, "compact", attractive and so while sacrificing at quality, maintainability and repairability, upgradeablity
- normies rarely have iq above room temperature so if their hardware "slows" down they rather look at next hip thing in market, buy it and dumps previous maal to trash
- companies realise they can keep on milking normies with planned obsolence practices that involve making things unfixable at least or slowing them down at most
- the true "power" users like us are a minority so our opinions are never heard or declared "niche" and sidelined
- even in OS market, microshart is literally trying to adopt touch screen features in mainstream OS since years, starting with Win 8 and now 11 wants to be Mac-like OS in terms of basic looks...WHILE LITERALLY RUINING LOTS OF THINGS THAT MADE MICROSHART STAND STRONG = BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY AND USABILITY
- long term result = ENSHITTIFICATION of everything

my 2013 era laptop doesn't have underpowered U series cpu, and it's actually socketed means i can easily install compatible CPU for that socket on it GIVEN THEY ARE STILL MADE AND SUPPORTED - I actually thought of upgrading it with i7 when those used CPUs became cheaper enough but eventually dropped it thinking itne purane laptop me kya cpu upgrade karu

but at least i could do it, aajkal toh everything is soldered even fuckin' RAM huh?!

there was a time when laptops came in two fashions = thin and light and cosy for most normies, and thicker with more ports and upgradeable for office users and above

Dell had Vostro, HP had Inspiron, Lenovo had Thinkpads for most above average individuals, for serious modders Dell had Alienware (reminder even in 2016 they made laptops with PC CPU sockets and even GPU sockets so even graphics card could be upgraded in it) and Latitude, HP had elitebook...

nowadays most power subbrands too have adopted enshittified practices

i wish for thorough painful death and destruction of Apple

>func rant(off)

Buy thick laptops with upgradable RAM and storage . I know they are uncool but having enough space for ventilation helps. For known 13 inch Sony Vaio conked off much faster than inferior older thicker 15 inch vaio.

Drop dumbells just carry chunky 15/16 inch heavy laptop everywhere

 

[liberalredditor]

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Buy thick laptops with upgradable RAM and storage . I know they are uncool but having enough space for ventilation helps. For known 13 inch Sony Vaio conked off much faster than inferior older thicker 15 inch vaio.

Drop dumbells just carry chunky 15/16 inch heavy laptop everywhere

so basically dont buy a thin and light as they have soldered ram and ssd. if you want review then checkout venoms tech channel, his review is for all types of users

 

[shade2]

Buy thick laptops with upgradable RAM and storage . I know they are uncool but having enough space for ventilation helps. For known 13 inch Sony Vaio conked off much faster than inferior older thicker 15 inch vaio.

Drop dumbells just carry chunky 15/16 inch heavy laptop everywhere

You don't get these anymore in consoomer market saar, he may have to drop 1.2 lakh plus on one of those workstation laptops and i don't think you'd find those in a showroom.