Best laptops for every purpose: Quarantine edition 2021
Tired and bored of being at home all day? Unsatisfied with your laptop’s performance and want an upgrade at a reasonable price? Look no further as you’ve reached your ideal article
Laptops are now more essential than ever. We all need one for online classes or work(the Dreaded Zoom meeting) or for gaming. This is my list of the top laptops in their respected category.
Best for multimedia editing and best-looking laptop
Lenovo Flex 5
The Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 14 punches far above its weight. This $600 2-in-1 convertible laptop offers better computing performance than many of the competitors that cost more than twice as much. It’s also got decent physical connectivity options, a sturdy, well-designed chassis, and a comfortable keyboard. While the Flex 5’s 14-inch display could be brighter and it could stand to lose a few ounces, there are few better value for money options than this.
Best for students
The Lenovo duet chrome comes at an unbelievable price of $229.99, with a surprising 128GB of eMMC flash storage aboard (or $20 less if you settle for 64GB). You can technically call it a 10.1-inch tablet with a standard keyboard and kickstand — and you can grumble about its having only one port, a USB 2.0 Type-C (Lenovo throws in a 3.5mm audio adapter for your headphones) — but it’s a full-fledged Chromebook. And in every way from comfortable typing to smart tablet gestures, it’s nifty productivity and streaming entertainment device.
Best for casual gaming
The Acer Nitro 5 is an entry-level gaming laptop with a price point of around the four-figure mark (depending on configuration), designed for high performance in games at 1080p with minimum hassle. This is a plug-and-play situation; set up your new laptop, tweak your settings with the streamlined NitroSense software, and get straight into a game on what could be the best gaming laptop for you.
Best for Movie watching
The Asus Vivobook S15 (S532F) proves, in more ways than one, that less is more. Following in the Ultrabook footsteps, this quality portable machine keeps everything lightweight and thin yet powerful enough for some light photo editing. And, that’s without forcing you to break the piggy bank.
