9 Best Laptops for Mechanical engineering students in India 2021

This is The Mechanical post and today you will be reading about the best laptops for mechanical engineering students in India 2021 for every budget.

Being a Mechanical engineer myself, I know that having a good laptop saves a person lots of time and effort.

The covid-19 pandemic has shaken the educational system and the need for having a good laptop has never been higher.

No matter what lies ahead, your student and professional life will surely revolve around this piece of tech, whether it’s researching, playing games, or preparing reports.

So we have gone through the extensive process of selection so that you don’t have to. This list showcases the 9 best laptops for mechanical students under a wide range of budgets.

Be it as a gift for a mechanical engineer, as a replacement for your old laptop, or for a student just starting his/her mechanical career this list has got you covered.  

This list of laptops is not only suitable for mechanical engineers, but also for in general for other engineering branches. You can call it the 9 best laptops for engineers.

We can’t stress this enough that having a good laptop can save a lot of time and effort.

Why does a mechanical student need a laptop?

We as mechanical engineers, need a laptop be it for 3D modeling or preparing reports for projects, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), assignments, and much more.

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First, we’ll see a buying guide that will help you choose a good laptop for you and then our list of the best laptop for mechanical engineers.

If you want to skip reading the detailed explanation, you can jump to the list of the 9 best laptops. 

And at the end, you can find detailed specifications with the pros and cons of each laptop to help you select the right machine according to your needs. 

Laptop buying guide for mechanical engineering students

The following are the specs or buying tips you must consider before buying any laptop for yourself.  

1. Size and weight. 

Being a mechanical student, we have to go from one class to another. From class to lab, or lab to the workshop, a student doesn’t sit at the same place the whole time in college.   

So it is good to have a laptop small and compact so that it fits your backpack as well as be light in weight so that it would be less burden carrying around.  

So an ideal size and weight would be a 14”inch screen size laptop with around 1.5kg weight.

2. Display.

It is the place where you will be staring all the time using your laptop and for a mechanical engineering student when using designing and modeling software color accuracy is quite important. 

Also, when watching videos, movies, or online lectures, a good display is necessary.
A look for at least a full HD IPS display. An OLED or QLED display is good but is expensive. Don’t opt for a TN or VA panel as they have terrible viewing angles and don’t have good color reproduction.

3.RAM. 

As mechanical students, we come across heavy-weight software like Autocad inventor, Ansys, Solidworks, Catia, etc which require a good amount of power.

So look for a minimum of 8GB ram. Although we recommend 16GB ram to be a little future-proof. If not, you can check out a laptop that you can upgrade to 16GB later on.  

4.Processor 

Intel or AMD you can opt for any brand you want but, the processor must have 4 or more cores and the boost speed must be above 3.8 GHz at least.

The more the cores and the faster the speed of the core, the better is the processor.

On a budget go for 4 cores and if you can afford you can opt for 6 or 8 cores according to your workload. If you are dealing with assemblies with around 100+ parts in 3D modeling, then you must opt for 8 cores minimum.  

5.Graphics.

All that you see on your screen is due to the graphics card. Nowadays many laptops come with integrated graphics but try avoiding them. Opt for a dedicated graphics card as it would boost the performance.

Look for at least a 2GB dedicated graphic card. However, nowadays 4GB has become the baseline.

The minimum we recommend is at least 4 GB dedicated graphics card of Nvidia 1650 or 1650ti. 

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List of laptops for mechanical engineering students

Given below is the list of the laptops for mechanical engineering students in descending order of their price.     

You might be thinking after reading this that why I’ve included gaming laptops extensively in the list.

The reason is that I have preferred performance while making this list so that you can complete your work smoothly.

The ultrabooks are usually light in weight. But a disadvantage is that they come with a very basic graphic card i.e MX 350 or MX 450 for the same price as that of the gaming laptop.  

#1 Lenovo Leigon 5Pi

Specs 

Screen :
15.6″ Full HD resolution display with144 Hz Refresh Rate with 300 nits brightness

Processor :
Intel Core i7-10750H 10th Gen

Graphics card :
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 6GB GDDR6

RAM :
16 GB DDR4

Storage:
1TB SSD storage

Operating system:
Windows 10

Weight:
2.3 kg {alertInfo}

We think that at this you are getting a wonderful display, a good processor equipped with an equally powerful graphics card.

It also has future upgradability which makes it a good choice for users that have to deal with heavy tasks on day to day basis.

Watch the detailed review of this laptop by LearnAbhi here. (* not sponsored)  

#2 HP Victus Gaming

Specs

Screen:
16.1″ Full HD edge to edge display with 250 nits brightness and 45% NTSC color gamut.

Processor:
AMD Ryzen 5 5600h 6-Core processor.  

Graphics card:
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 4GB  

RAM:
8GB DDR4 3200 MHz (can be upgraded later on).  

Storage: 
512GB PCIe NVMe SSD  

Operating system: 
Windows 10  

Weight:
2.4 kg  

#3 ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14

Specs

Screen:
14″ FHD 60hz display with 85% screen to body ratio  

Processor: 
Ryzen 7 5800HS 8 cores and 16 threads processor

Graphics card:
GeForce GTX 1650 4GB Graphics  

RAM:
8GB DDR4 3200Mhz

Storage: 
512GB SSD  

Weight:
1.6kg  

Operating system: 
Windows 10 

 
This laptop is suitable for people who need a powerful yet portable laptop. If you are constantly travelling and need a capable laptop for work, this might be the right option for you.

#4 HP Pavillion Gaming

Specs:

Screen: 
15.6-inch Full HD resolution, IPS display with 144Hz refresh rate, 45% NTSC and 250nits brightness.

Processor:
Intel i5 11th gen 11300H 4-core processor

Graphics card:
Intel Iris Xe and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 4GB

RAM:
8GB (can be upgraded to 16 GB later on)

Storage:
1 TB HDD + 256 GB SSD

Operating system:
Windows 10

Weight:
2.2 kg

My review of using this laptop

At the time of writing this review, it’s been quite some time since me using this laptop for my day-to-day activities. So by this time I’ve come to know about its advantages and limitations.

The specs of this laptop are quite promising and they do deliver good performance. In my use case, I’ve never come across a lag, the laptop feels buttery smooth. I had 10-15 chrome tabs and Asphalt 9 along with other desktop apps open, still no lag at all.

Talking about cooling, the laptop runs quite cool thanks to its 2 fans as well as loads of fairly sized exhaust vents.

The other thing which I noticed is that this laptop has really good speakers. These are top-firing speakers, placed above the keyboard with an eye-catching design. Also, these speakers are tuned by B&O.

Since I’m no gaming guy, therefore I do not play games although the laptop is fully capable. But I’m sure it would handle today’s modern games. (You can check out youtube for gaming & benchmark tests if gaming is your priority)

The display of the laptop depends on what are you going to use it for. For me, designing graphics for this site as well as other works that require color accuracy, the color isn’t accurate. The colors are not accurate therefore I won’t recommend it if you are into graphics or things that require good color accuracy.

On the other hand, gamers would love the display as it comes with a 144hz refresh rate. Also, the backlit keyboard adds to the thrill.

While attending online lectures, I was surprised by its microphone quality. The microphone only picked up my voice very clearly even though there were background noises. However, the webcam quality was average.

The battery life of this laptop highly depends on how you use it. The day I got the laptop, it was on performance mode with medium brightness and backlit off, I was getting around 2-3 hrs. And when I played Asphalt 8 on it with the highest settings and 144hz on, the battery was almost dead.

However, when I went to the setting and changed it from ‘performance’ mode to ‘battery saver mode’ and with normal web browsing, MS office, etc. I was getting around 5-6 hrs+ battery life

The typing experience was good for me and all of this is written using this laptop.

#5 HP Omen 15.6-inch

Specs

Screen: 
15.6-inch Full HD resolution, IPS display with 60Hz refresh rate.

Processor:
AMD Ryzen 5 4600H 6-core processor

Graphics card:
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660ti 6GB

RAM:
8GB DDR4

Storage:
512GB SSD

Operating system:
Windows 10

Weight:
2.36 kg {alertInfo}

Interested in buying it? Watch the review video on the HP Omen gaming laptop by Beebom here. (* not sponsored)

#6 Acer Nitro 5

Specs

Screen:
15.6 inch Full HD display with 144 Hz refresh rate.

Processor:
11th Gen Intel Core i5 11300H 4 core & 8 thread processor

Graphics card:
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 4GB

RAM:
8GB DDR4 (upgradable to 32GB later on)

Storage:
512GB SSD

Operating system:
Windows 10

Weight:
Around 2.2kg

#7 Lenovo Ideapad gaming 3 

Specs

Screen:
15.6-inch FHD IPS anti-glare display with 250nits brightness and 45% NTSC

Processor:
AMD Ryzen 4600h 6 core processor

Graphics card:
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Graphics 4 GB

RAM:
8 GB (upgradable to 16GB)

Storage:
512 GB SSD

Operating system:
Windows 10

Weight:
2.2kg

#8 Asus TUF Gaming F15 

Specs

Screen:
15.6-Inch FHD IPS anti-glare, 144hz refresh rate and 45% NTSC color gamut.

Processor:
Intel i5 10th gen 10300H 4 core processor

Graphics card:
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650ti 4 GB

RAM:
8 GB DDR4 (Can be upgraded in future)

Storage:
512 GB SSD

Operating system:
Windows 10

Weight:
2.3kg

#9 Acer Aspire 7 

Specs

Screen:
15.6-inch (16:9 aspect ratio) with 60Hz Refresh Rate and 45% NTSC color gamut.

Processor:
AMD Ryzen 5 5500u 6 core & 12 thread processor.

Graphics card:
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 4GB

RAM:
8GB RAM

Storage:
512GB SSD

Operating system:
Windows 10

Weight:
2.1kg

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Conclusion

So, These were the 9 laptops, and we would like to conclude the following: 

1) The best power-packed laptop is the Lenovo legion 5pi and HP Vicus gaming.

2) If you are looking for a compact, portable and powerful laptop then, Asus ROG Zephyrus 14 is the laptop to go with.  

3) The Hp Pavilion Gaming, Asus Nitro 5, and Acer Aspire 7 are very good laptops for people on mid-budget.  

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So that’s about the Best laptops for mechanical engineering students. So lets us know which laptop you are using in the comments.  

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