Due to:

• No real law in India so companies tries to blame cusomter for manufacturing defects or things that you migt even not have done just so that they don't have to fix/replace it for you.
• No interest in these foreign companies to even try to train engineers or call centre people so that they actually know what they're doing or talking about. They just give it to some third party Indian company that does so very cheaply and have no sense of how to behave with a customer.
  Why this matter?
  Because either they can unknowingly(remmeber they are untrained) damage your machine or tell you something on call that is either very frustraating, time consuming or at times, actually damaging which you might do. Example: Lenovo Engineer Breaking Display, Applying cheap low quality thermal paste insetad of the pre-installed PTM which lasats very long, and a lot more.
  If you were looking to buy from a compnay in India that actually hires and trains people here, this is the actual reason, not some propoganda bullshit like China Bad, Pakistan Bad which our News Media sees every day.
• Hard to find parts. Arond 2023, when I visited Nehru Place, Delhi to fix my old Acer laptop, every shop told me the same story:

  Dell, HP & Lenovo are easy to find parts for, Acer and Asus are very difficult.
  Forget MSI, Gigabyte and other brands at all.

I have been recommending laptops to people for decades now(Yes, even before youtube) and what I have seen again and again is the fact that in the pursuit of getting the best deals, people don't check what they're buying is even worth buying or not.
Many people have bought an Acer Nitro V or some other shit gaming laptop only because it suddenly dropped in price and they got it just because it had a spec never before seen at the given price point and they completely forget to check if the model they are buying is even suited to their use case or not.
Many people who got Acer(yes, there is a reason Acer keeps coming up here) from flipkart/amazon from where Acer doesnt' give extra warranty or ADP found that a year later something has went horribly wrong and now they need to spend a large amount just to get the laptop working. Don't take my word for it, check the negative reviews on Amazon(Flipkart usually doesn't allow updated negative reviews).

BTW, even Dell has started to do the same thing with Aurora 240H 5060 where it's just an absolute horrible laptop but

Too often I have seen kids waiting upto a year just because they didn't get the laptop at the lowest price that someone else said they did and they want the absolute best deal. The problem with this approach is that they keep waiting and waiting, they forget that time is something you can't get back and try to convince themselves that they can just go by without a laptop even when they desperately need it.

A good laptop should be able to sustain long workloads at the maximum perforamnce for a long time and those who think it's not something they might need, I can tell you from experience you will be surprised with how much a powerful system can do that a simple one can't. There are things that you haven't even realized yet.

Such laptops are called workstation laptops. You can see a few from Asus, Dell, HP & Lenovo.

If you checked those links, you will be surprised to see the huge costs of those machines for a decent new hardware, and that's where gaming laptops fit in.

Gaming laptops are strongly built machines that can run heavy load for long just like the workstation machines and in fact even in corporate world, brands have started to see that they were being ripped off because they were using workstation machiens and actually have started to use gaming laptops instead especially after pandemic when they started to realize that they can make more money with less people in offices.

Now about entertainment:
FUCK GAMING AND FUCK ENTERTAINMENT IN GENERAL. This is a creation machine. You learn skill from this or use it in your life to generate income right away or improve your current income. It is more clearly a money making machine and wasting that time on entertainment(Yes, gaiming is entertainment no matter how many reserach you bring me about hand-eye coordination and strategies).

Before you buy Acer Laptop India

Before you buy Apple Laptops India

Before you buy Colorful Laptops India

Before you buy Infinix Laptops India

Laptop with full metal body will have current flowing through the body, Macbooks are notorious for this and if they don't have a three-pin plug(the ground pin at top to remedy this sitation), like, again, Macbooks or even some Thinkpads when customizing them, be careful, you will constantly get shocked from the laptop body especially if your feet are touching the floor.
Most of the cases it will be mild and it won't matter but sometime they can genuinely be mild and irritating.

Solution: Wherever you're pluggin the laptop, confirm the power wiring has been done properly with grouding AND, if it's a two-pin adapter, find a three-pin replacement and if you can't, attach a wire from the laptop's body to ground.

• Trust:
  If the person who you're recommending something doesn't trust you completely and doesn't understand that just because you paid 2 lakhs on a mchine doesn't mean it will always work fine, DON'T REOCMMEND THEM ANYTHING. Let them buy what they want, where they want, how they want.
  
• Non-rich Girls:
  Girls will try to agree with you that a powerful laptop is all they want but they don't want anything hevier than the macbook air.
  If a girl insists she wants a gaming laptop, force her to visit the store and let her see the charger and the laptop first. Then make her write this on a piece of paper with her own blood:
  "I know this gaming laptop is heavy and the charger is heavy too but I want it and I WILL NOT BLAME anyone especially not the person helping me get a laptop if I later decide it's too heavy"
  Once she has done that, you can give her a gaming laptop.
  Otherwise just take her to an apple store or if she wants a Thinkpad, show her some 14 and 16" E series offline then order them online. Scroll below, they are already here BUT MAKE SURE TO LET THEM HAVE THE MACHINE AND THE CHARGER IN HER HAND ONCE.
• Rich Girls:
  What I said above still applies. They are no different but however, there might be better options as many brands have started to release 14" thin gaming laptops. I might review them later but the problem of a larger charger still stays with them.

THis makes no fucking sense but a photographer shares his story and why he settled for LOQ and not the Legions. He said he took his RAW shots to offline shops and tested many laptops to see how the pictuers looked on them and the thing he noticed was that all the premium laptops with OLED or IPS that said 100% DCI-P3 oversaturated the pictures so much that they didn't look right but when he tested the same pictures on budget LOQ (13450HX 4050) one, he said the pictures looked perfect.
Now, clearly a 100 DCI-P3 screen covers a higher color space almost 126% sRGB but the problem happens on windows when they try to show 100% sRGB images on a 100% DCI-P3 screen.
He confirmed the same from his director and he also said the same with the only excpetion of it being an Apple.
To me this made no fucking sense unless I realized how horrible Windows is when it comes to HDR content. If you try to watch an HDR movie on a TV/Monitor sometimes all it does is make the whole color palette gray which I had noticed with my infinix TV. However when I play the exact same file via network share so no Windows is involved, they worked just fine.
I shit on apple a lot but if your work requires Apple, do you even have a choice?
All I am asking is if you are getting a Windows machine for color correct work, please check about these DCI-P3 to sRGB conversion on Windows a bit more.
If I find something more on this, will edit this post accordingly.
Will add a post here and if he comments will pin his comment to

His own words:

Personal Note
This is a personal experience, so results may vary for others.

My Testing Process
I didn’t take RAW photos to offline stores. Instead, I used images that were already edited and colour graded on a properly calibrated system. I tested these across multiple laptop brands — Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, and MSI. I couldn’t check Dell or Gigabyte because there were no display units available nearby.

I had already tested the MacBook Air and Pro (M4 versions). Their colour accuracy was excellent, but the price was the only reason I didn’t consider them further. (I think I forgot to mention this during our call.)

What I Observed
In most laptops with 100% DCI-P3 displays, the colours appeared oversaturated.
The worst results came from the ASUS TUF F16 (100% sRGB) and ROG Strix (100% DCI-P3), both running on Intel 14th Gen CPUs.
•	On the ROG, there was a clear greenish tint — even the store staff noticed it.
•	On the TUF, colours leaned towards a reddish or magenta tone.
•	In both models, gradient transitions looked broken — strong banding was visible, especially in shots with backlight or post-added gradients.

My take: ASUS seems tuned more for gaming. Personally, I wouldn’t recommend them for creative work.

What Worked Well
When I tested the Lenovo LOQ in-store with my photos, everything — colour, saturation, contrast, and white balance — looked perfect.
The Legion series wasn’t available to test that day. However, I did check an HP Omen with a 100% DCI-P3 OLED panel, and while it was stunning, the colours were exaggerated. For instance, I usually avoid using pure black backgrounds in my product shots (my mentor taught me that — and for good reason). I stick to a deep grey, but on an OLED, it looked jet black. When I mentioned this, my mentor advised against OLEDs for photography work, except for Apple displays, which are tuned differently.

My Recommendation
If you do creative work, don’t rely only on specs like “100% sRGB” or “100% DCI-P3.” That just tells you the display’s colour range, not how accurately it’s tuned.

Here’s what I suggest:
1.	Edit a few of your photos on a properly colour-calibrated system.
2.	Take those photos to nearby brand showrooms.
3.	Check how they look on different systems — especially colour accuracy, contrast, saturation, hue, white balance, and gradients.
4.	Choose the system that reproduces your work exactly as intended.

In my case, that was the Lenovo LOQ. Yours might be different.

But if budget allows, I’d still recommend going with Apple. Based on my experience — and advice from professional photographers, international judges, and mentors with decades in the field — Apple’s display and colour tuning are simply unmatched.

From my very small research what I found was that OLED displays won't have any issues in the first four years but anything after that, visible burn-ins, lower brightness and color shift started to show up.
But here's the thing, most of the data on the internet is actually on OLED Monitors and not OLED displays in laptops.
What's the difference: Extra heat, more variable brightness, and some other things I have not yet thought over much.
In short, your waranty should cover you for 4 years if it's a Lenovo but after that they will show signs of aging and replacing them is NOT CHEAP.

Laptop Burn-in 60 days continous

Already covered here.

Non eSports Games are slowly starting to become CPU dependent also like Spider-man and more I will write here later.
Point is, don't drop the CPU performance significantly just because it gives you something else like in the Legion Pro 5 Gen 10 AMD which forces you get an IPS screen instead of an OLED if you chose a higher performing CPU.

• 5000 series has shown driver issues, fluctuating performance on the initial drivers and other driver issues that are common among the desktop cards. This all feels like should be fixed by driver updates so we can only wait on it.

New on top:
• Divided Lenovo.com Savings section into two parts: Guaranteed for most people and more discounts for a few people who have some special credit cards, are doing a business purchase or were good in their past life.
• Combined Recommended and Not 100% Recommended into one so that they can be compared easily.
• Moved from Geekbench to Cinebench R23 mainly due to Intel's aggressive burst which made it look like they are better in short term tests like Geekebench. This of course means more work as not many creators bother with long term Cinebench R23 tests.
• Added an "Actual Performance" multiplier to show the actual long-term performance in accordance with the above. For the data I have not yet found, it's kept at 100% for now.

Quick Delivery variants of LOQ Intel HX CPUs are not at all recommended because you can't confirm the date of manufacture so you con't say if it's on of the earlier unit or not.

Update: A new variant has launched on Amazon India for Rs.115k. It is similar to the laptop I got earlier. If the Legion above is not available, only then think about this laptop.

Quick Delivery→115k Lenovo LOQ 14th Gen-14700HX-4060 115W-100%-16GB-1TB on Amazon India

Videos: Short Review for Amazon | English Review | Hindi

ThinkPad E16 - AMD Ryzen 5, 16 GB RAM, 512 SSD, Win 11 Home 21M5S0NR00

This laptop has made me rethink about Thinkpads without 100% sRGB for cheap.

Recommended to Client ID: 62 during Diwali Heavy sale instead of 💩 gaming laptops.

Customized Version on Lenovo.com

Note about choosen specs:
• CPU: 210
  210 is pretty usable CPU.
• RAM: AMD CPU and Windows 11 means you need a minimum of 24GB RAM to function however, any RAM selection was too expensive on amazon hence buying more from Amazon 16GB minimum was better. However, do compare the prices yourself if they increase later.
• SSD: Only 256GB available, so you have to buy one off of Amazon anyways as 256GB is unusable. Again, like above, check prices before making this judgement.
• Display: 100% sRGB was the bare minimum, that was the whole reason to even boterh with thinkpads in the first place otherwise I would have not.
  Note: Don't get the touch screen as it's not color accurate.
• Windows and Office: Too Expensive on Lenovo. You can use Windows without activating and of course if you are fine with it, there are other ways to activate it.
• Camera, WiFi, Fingerprint Reader, Backlight Keyboard, Charger, better battery: Choose the best most expensive one mainly because the prices were fractional compared to the whole laptop.
• Base Cover Material: Although the Aluminium one is more premium many Indian households don't bother with the third ground wire in their household so unless you have grounded your home connection, the laptop body will shock you in which case just get the plastic body.

Customized Version on Lenovo.com

Note about choosen specs:
• CPU: 210
  210 is pretty usable CPU.
• RAM: AMD CPU and Windows 11 means you need a minimum of 24GB RAM to function however, any RAM selection was too expensive on amazon hence buying more from Amazon 16GB minimum was better. However, do compare the prices yourself if they increase later.
• SSD: Only 256GB available, so you have to buy one off of Amazon anyways as 256GB is unusable. Again, like above, check prices before making this judgement.
• Display: 100% sRGB was the bare minimum, that was the whole reason to even boterh with thinkpads in the first place otherwise I would have not.
  Note: Don't get the touch screen as it's not color accurate.
• Windows and Office: Too Expensive on Lenovo. You can use Windows without activating and of course if you are fine with it, there are other ways to activate it.
• Camera, WiFi, Fingerprint Reader, Backlight Keyboard, Charger, better battery: Choose the best most expensive one mainly because the prices were fractional compared to the whole laptop.
• Base Cover Material: Although the Aluminium one is more premium many Indian households don't bother with the third ground wire in their household so unless you have grounded your home connection, the laptop body will shock you in which case just get the plastic body.

The following are too expensive: Most Thinkpads are <75k is not a price I am comfortable with recommending any Thinkpad E series at. This price range should be for L Series hence proceed with caution.

75k+4k: Cheapest usable version is still very expensive to recommend

Customized Version on Lenovo.com

Note about choosen specs:
• CPU: 225H is not much more than the 225U so this is the base CPU which is still very very usable.
• RAM (+4k): Amazon has afforable laptop RAM, there was no point paying Lenovo extra as this laptop has two SSD slots already. This will incur extra charges later however.
  Also, since this is AMD aim for 24GB RAM and higher NOT 16GB RAM
• SSD: 512GB isn't much more than the 256GB optoin.
  Note: Amazon has afforable SSD if you want to upgrade even more later.
• Display: 100% sRGB was the bare minimum, that was the whole reason to even boterh with thinkpads in the first place otherwise I would have not.
• Windows and Office: Too Expensive on Lenovo. You can use Windows without activating and of course if you are fine with it, there are other ways to activate it.
• Camera, WiFi, Fingerprint Reader, Backlight Keyboard, Charger, better battery: Choose the best most expensive one mainly because the prices were fractional compared to the whole laptop.
• Base Cover Material: Although the Aluminium one is more premium many Indian households don't bother with the third ground wire in their household so unless you have grounded your home connection, the laptop body will shock you in which case just get the plastic body.

With extra savings of course.

~72k+4k+6k: Cheapest usable version is still very expensive to recommend

Customized Version on Lenovo.com

Note about choosen specs:
• CPU: The 100U CPU is very weak, too weak to run normal Windows 11 properly let along any extra applications on top of it.
• RAM(+4k later): Amazon has afforable laptop RAM, there was no point paying Lenovo extra as this laptop has two SSD slots already. This will incur extra charges later however.
• SSD(+6k later): Amazon has afforable SSD, there was no point paying Lenovo extra as this laptop has two SSD slots already. This will incur extra charges later however.
• Display: 100% sRGB was the bare minimum, that was the whole reason to even boterh with thinkpads in the first place otherwise I would have not.
• Windows and Office: Too Expensive on Lenovo. You can use Windows without activating and of course if you are fine with it, there are other ways to activate it.
• Camera, WiFi, Fingerprint Reader, Backlight Keyboard, Charger and if an option opens later for battery: Choose the best most expensive one mainly because the prices were fractional compared to the whole laptop.
• Base Cover Material: Although the Aluminium one is more premium many Indian households don't bother with the third ground wire in their household so unless you have grounded your home connection, the laptop body will shock you in which case just get the plastic body.

~75k: Cheapest usable version is still very expensive to recommend

Customized Version on Lenovo.com

Note about choosen specs:
• CPU: The best CPU 7735HS isn't that much more considering the price of the laptop so I went with that..
• RAM: AMD CPU and Windows 11 means you need a minimum of 24GB RAM to function and as goign from 8 to 32GB was not that much differnt that Amazon at the point of writing I went with it. However, do compare the prices yourself if they increase later.
• SSD: Even though the cost of a new 256GB is the same since we only have two slots it's stupid to buy one off of amazon and it's better to increase the base SSD to 512GB and then buy more from Amazon later as needed. Again, like above, check prices before making this judgement.
• Display: 100% sRGB was the bare minimum, that was the whole reason to even boterh with thinkpads in the first place otherwise I would have not.
  Note: Don't get the touch screen as it's not color accurate.
• Windows and Office: Too Expensive on Lenovo. You can use Windows without activating and of course if you are fine with it, there are other ways to activate it.
• Camera, WiFi, Fingerprint Reader, Backlight Keyboard, Charger, better battery: Choose the best most expensive one mainly because the prices were fractional compared to the whole laptop.
• Base Cover Material: Although the Aluminium one is more premium many Indian households don't bother with the third ground wire in their household so unless you have grounded your home connection, the laptop body will shock you in which case just get the plastic body.

With extra savings of course.

Note: Even though Thinkpads are the only thin and lights I recommend, due to high prices of even the cheapest Thinkpads(E series>80k when they should be near 50k), I am forced to look into alternatives and this one comes to mind as a few people including one of my friends oredered this and they didn't see any problems with it.
The problem I brought was long term and as long you get Lenovo's own 3 years ADP which can later be exteneded to one more year for about 4-5k(wroth paying), atleast it's a good machine for four years. As long as you keep that in mind, I guess it's worth consdiering.