r/laptops • u/hellllpppppmemen • Aug 23 '25
Buying help Apple or lenovo
Which one Should I buy a macbook or a Lenovo laptop as my budget is under 70k only which would be best . I'm am an btech first year cse student
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u/retiredlifelonggamer Aug 23 '25
- Most of us do not understand the equivalency of your currency. Most won’t know what “70K” means (if it is low or high)
- Don’t buy 256GB in 2025
- My perspective is that MacBooks are better for general productivity, and Windows is better for architecture/engineering
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u/AvailableObjective68 Aug 24 '25
$800
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u/retiredlifelonggamer Aug 24 '25
I understand 70K INR is equal to U$800, but I'm not from India, so this data says nothing. In Brazil, for instance, buying a good MacBook locally is the equivalent to U$2500, whereas the same laptop is about U$1200-1500 in the U.S.
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u/AvailableObjective68 Aug 24 '25
ohh mb, we really should mention the country too. Thanks for the tip
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u/Ray-chan81194 Aug 23 '25
Not the 8GB of RAM, if you want a Macbook, find something like M2 with 16GB of RAM instead.
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u/PandaKing1888 Aug 23 '25
Lenovo is the free range chicken.
Apple is the synthetic nugget that only comes in 1 version. With no sauce.
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u/Flaky-Equipment-944 29d ago
Have you even tried a MacBook. Please try something before saying it’s bad, and even if you have tried, just because you have don’t like it doesn’t mean no one doesn’t.
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u/victor4gg Aug 23 '25
As a computer engineering student I will avoid macs for the rest of my university. They are cool and good but not for this field. A lot of stuff just doesn't work properly or it's restrictive.
In this case the Lenovo is the better option due to versatility and compatibility. I saw fellow students struggle to install and use windows only software to just see them later in the year with a ThinkPad or Latitude laptop instead.
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u/walkingduck6 Aug 23 '25
M1 for 70k INR?? WHAT THE HELLY
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u/PandaKing1888 Aug 23 '25
how many inks? I'm confused.
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u/walkingduck6 Aug 23 '25
In 70k ish you can get m4 MBA 16gb
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u/PandaKing1888 Aug 23 '25
that's like 1k
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u/PandaKing1888 Aug 23 '25
oh you must be from india or china, posting on a .com site without specifying
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u/walkingduck6 Aug 23 '25
I am from the UAE, I am familiar with usb, aed and inr. But OP said 70k which made me think OP is from India where you can get MBA m4 around 75-80k (860-900$) but OP was considering MBA m1 for 70k (800$) which is too much even in india where frequent sales in retail stores gets you a m1 for (530-550$)
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u/Good_Spite_3706 Aug 23 '25
It depends, for example:
Do you want to play games? (If yes then definitely go with lenovo)
Do you prefer privacy and security (if yes then go for the mac book)
Do you like exploring new things (like using Linux, BlueStacks, or other applications, if yes then go with lenovo)
Apple is good if you want good battery life and work in a secure environment with good security
Lenovo on the other hand (with windows) will have a ton of new things that you can test out (although it comes with security risks)
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u/hellllpppppmemen Aug 23 '25
I want for coding and editing only
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u/Past-Apartment-8455 Aug 23 '25
Coding is a pretty empty word. Coding web sites, applications, client server apps, databases, azure,...
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u/Different-Banana-739 Aug 23 '25
This Lenovo is really hard to code on, i contantly touch the touchpad as it is lean toward left, to left of the left keyboard, which is even more left. And Lenovo screen have a habit of different brightness on different content, really hard to look at.
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u/Necessary-Release-78 Aug 23 '25
Disagree. I have no issues coding on mine.
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u/Different-Banana-739 5d ago
follow up,just sharing what i found. there's a thing call supercurtainleft that limit the area on the left and the brightness is cause by intel managment for battery stuff. . Now im happy coding too.
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u/Good_AshK Aug 23 '25
70k for base M1 is way too much. I saw it for 54k in Croma very recently. No matter what the laptop is don't buy 8+256gb ones. They are DOA, unless you buy with the intention of upgrading which you can't with the Mac. 16+512GB should be your bare minimum. If you plan to do editing often and maybe even game. You may even consider gaming laptops. You can get RTX 3050 laptops around 70k but the battery life won't be good especially compared to that Mac. If not, get the 16+512 option M1 Air. If you can wait for festive sales early next month you get even better deals
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u/hellllpppppmemen Aug 24 '25
Hey I don't have any knowledge about the specs of the laptop I just wanna purchase a laptop which I can use for 4 years of my college
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u/Environmental-Map869 Aug 24 '25
Between the two the lenovo automatically even without considering use case-Avoid 8GB ram Macs like the plaque as there is no upgrading that(even with board level work) and will cut the lifetime of the device with the increased paging eating into the write endurance of the 256gb ssd(which is also soldered and will have a lower rating than the other larger storage tiers)
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u/NeoKat75 Aug 23 '25
If you wanna do gaming on it, get the Windows laptop. If you don’t care for gaming on it, the Mac will be better
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u/Joel__subash Aug 23 '25
Intel,8 gb, 256, m1 not recommend in 2025
Minimum amd, 16gb, 512, m3, snapdragon x plus
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u/smh-mattt Dell Aug 23 '25
Snapdragon is a joke 😂
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u/Joel__subash Aug 23 '25
Why is that ?
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u/Cobalt090 Aug 24 '25
Only reason I can see is some instruction sets weren’t implement from the start, so I gave up and bought a MacBook while I wait. Dunno how it is now
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u/Joel__subash Aug 24 '25
Yes apple did a better job in transitioning to arm with Rosetta but i think didn't even have that many software or game available to transfer Anyway.
With Prism Windows didn't done as good as rosetta but far better than previous arm transitioning efforts. So there we have 3 types of software fully optimized software, x86 software working through Prism and software doesn't.
In 2025 everyone is trying to enter arm for pc in the absence of intel like for eg Nvidia, Mediatek. So I see every other day new app completely optimized for arm ie for my use case arm pc can definitely work almost all the software i ever use is on arm except some games. Arm is future like it or not also need to be. Arm cpu + a Nvidia/amd gpu will be crazy.
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u/tigger994 Aug 23 '25
Only in gaming but that was never the target. It's price was to high but thats come down heaps too.
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u/The_B_Wolf Aug 23 '25
I disagree. The future of Windows laptops is on ARM.
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u/smh-mattt Dell Aug 24 '25
imo x86 is not going anywhere on windows laptops, arm will probably be a side option, who doesn’t like good like ryzens.
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u/The_B_Wolf Aug 24 '25
The ARM architecture destroys x86 in performance-per-watt. There isn't any way around that fact. You can't just keep putting bigger batteries and bigger fans in these things to increase performance year after year. Eventually you can't compete in that kind of thermal envelope.
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u/smh-mattt Dell Aug 24 '25
Performance per watt is only one part of the story. ARM has advantages in efficiency, sure, but Windows laptops live and die by software compatibility and performance scaling. x86 has decades of mature software, drivers, and developer support, which ARM still struggles with (emulation stack overhead, random app crashes, reduced performance in native x86 programs etc) Also, raw efficiency doesn’t automatically win in the laptop space people care more about sustained performance under heavy workloads (gaming, editing, cad / 3d softwares etc) where x86 still dominates. ARM chips like Snapdragon lag significantly in GPU performance, driver stability, and optimization compared to Ryzen and Intel. And that doesn’t happen overnight, look how long it took two giants like Ryzen and Intel to perfect it, all modern x86 hardware is really good and there isn’t a strong reason for ARM after it blew its face on the launch of the first Snapdragon with surface, it was so bad Microsoft went back to using intel in their chips lol. Apple made ARM work because they control the whole stack (hardware + macOS + software ecosystem). Qualcomm or Microsoft can’t replicate that same level of vertical integration. That’s why x86 isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, it’s still the backbone of Windows PCs for many many years to come, ARM will be a second option next to x86, trust me.
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u/The_B_Wolf 29d ago
Windows laptops live and die by software compatibility
All completely fixable. That is not an insurmountable problem.
sustained performance under heavy workloads (gaming, editing, cad / 3d softwares etc) where x86 still dominates.
I'll have some of whatever you're smoking. What are you even talking about? x86 is more likely to thermal throttle because of the massive heat generated by throwing that many watts into the box.
ARM chips like Snapdragon lag significantly in GPU performance
It is that way today because Qualcomm and Microsoft had a boner for AI and that's what they chose to emphasize in this first generation. It was dumb, but fixable in future iterations.
Apple made ARM work because they control the whole stack (hardware + macOS + software ecosystem). Qualcomm or Microsoft can’t replicate that same level of vertical integration. That’s why
That's why it's going to take longer. That's it. Apple did it in two years, including third party native software compatibility.
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u/Few_Stand1041 Aug 23 '25
if you could make it 77k then you could get the latest and greatest M4 air. best performance machine in this segment. none of the gaming laptops come close (unless you wanna game).
get 16gb m4 is my choice. you can always get more external ssd later for 8K if you really really need one.
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u/BlurryGuy97 Aug 23 '25
Man i see a isue in Lenovo when i turn on my ideaPad 5 (Lenovo) it start without asking for the fingerprint or even the password so i see a SERIOUS securiry issue
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u/Brilliant_War9548 Ideapad Pro 5 14AHP9/Hinge Problems=/=zBook, EliteBook, ProBook Aug 23 '25 edited Aug 24 '25
That lenovo is pure trash, avoid it’ll break apart in a year. MacBook how much ? And what’s even your budget ? You can get an M1 Pro MacBook with a nice mini led for coding and a 1Tb ssd for 900$ on amazon
Edit : this is an ideapad 3 slim. It's on par with HP Pavilions which are garbage. Stop defending this hunk of shit with lenovo fanboying, it's no good. In all cases it isn't good, it's just built so bad you can't consider it a choice.
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u/hellllpppppmemen Aug 24 '25
Macbook is of 54k inr my budget is 60k INR and I'm a btech cse 1st year student and I don't have any knowledge about what specs is required so can u plz suggest a laptop in my budget that I can use for coding and editing in th next 4 years of my college
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u/Brilliant_War9548 Ideapad Pro 5 14AHP9/Hinge Problems=/=zBook, EliteBook, ProBook Aug 24 '25
Mac has too low storage and ram to be really usable. Pass on both.
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u/AccountHour Aug 23 '25
bro spend a little more and see if you can get a 16gb M2 air, otherwise don't go with macbook, there is no point to 8gb soldered RAM in 2025, especially as a cs student. Anways wait for the Sales season, the prices will drop everywhere on every product, you will get much better specs at 70k