Budget Windows Laptop vs Budget Chromebook: What Wins? By Digit

We add digit often get to test some really high-end laptops with dual displays and 4k OLED panels, but the review requests we usually get from our viewers are for cheaper everyday use, laptops like say the new Asus five book 14. So when we received two laptops, the entry-level range with a similar price tag, but with very different characteristics. We thought we should compare them on video. So the question we're asking ourselves today is: if your new laptop budget is somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 rupees, should you buy a typical Windows laptop with a traditional, hard drive and 4gb RAM or get a Chromebook, and this question has suddenly become more pertinent because this finally, an affordable Chromebook in the Indian market, HP recently launched the Chromebook 14 at twenty-two thousand nine hundred ninety rupees. For that money you get an Intel Celeron CPU, four gigabytes of RAM and a 64 gigabyte, eMMC flash drive being a Chromebook. It runs Chrome OS, which is visibly lighter than Windows 10, because it's essentially the Chrome browser with support for Android apps through the Google Play Store.

Let's compare that to a Windows power equivalent in the same price range for all video. We thought we'd pick the recently launched Lenovo IdeaPad s1 45 for thirty-two thousand six hundred and ninety rupees. You get it with an Intel, 8th, gen, core i3, CPU, four gigabytes of RAM and a one terabyte hard drive with integrated graphics. Let's see how the two compared Chromebooks are usually known for their short boot times when compared to Windows laptops, but the visual difference on our test units was evident. The Chromebook took no more than 35 seconds to cold boot to the desktop, while the Windows machine took about 2 minutes 25 seconds to get to the same place.

Opening Gmail in Chrome took seven seconds on the Chromebook and about 35 seconds on the Windows laptop. Now that's a big difference. Opening a 2.4, MB PDF file took about three seconds on the Chromebook and about 15 whole seconds on the windows' laptop. It was the same case with other file types such as JPG and mp4. To our surprise, a 1 MB word document was the fastest to open on the windows' laptop.

Now it's easy to tell from all these things that the Chromebook has the upper edge by a great margin. Yes, with a Windows laptop at around 25,000 rupees, you get a lot of storage and the ability to run full-fledged Windows applications, but you may not be able to run them all very well if the specs inside are no good. So then, if all you're planning to do is check your email browse lightly and watch a couple of videos occasionally consider getting a Chromebook. Instead, you only get 64 gigabytes of flash storage, but you can always use Google, Drive, Dropbox or other cloud storage services. What's more, you usually get USB-C for charging and data transfer along with a couple of USB airports.

So what have we learned from this quick video we've learned that a Chromebook is definitely good value. If all you care about is light, browsing and a few video watches so go ahead and check out the new HP Chromebook 14, it costs twenty-two thousand nine hundred ninety rupees, and it's good value. Overall. Thank you for watching this video I hope you enjoyed it. We will see in the next one cut half you.

Source : Digit