5 Best Laptops Under Budget 2021

The best laptops under budget won’t leave you unsettled because you didn’t pay a premium price. There are value-priced notebooks that include full-HD displays, solid performance and long battery life, plus all the ports you need. You can even get a laptop with a touch screen in this price range, though it will be on the smaller side. Some of these even made it on our best laptops page.

After reviewing dozens of value-priced systems, the best laptop under budget with a Windows 10 operating system are the 15-inch Acer Aspire E 15 and the Acer Aspire 5. We even wrote a face-off to help you choose between the two.

Some of the other best laptop under budget include the HP Stream 11 and Acer Swift 1. The former is by far the cheapest Windows 10 laptop that you’ll find, so you should expect some major compromises in performance. Meanwhile, if you’re looking for something that’s a good size and lightweight, then the Acer Swift 1 would be the best laptop for you.

So, finally we are going to enlist details of some of the best laptop under budget in 2021.

ACER ASPIRE 5

The Acer Aspire 5 earns its place at the top spot of the best laptop under budget page due to its strong 8th Gen Core i3 performance, bright 1080p display and long battery life, all for an affordable price. Although the Aspire 5 is much thinner than its sibling, the Aspire E 15, the Aspire 5 boasts enough room for a battery that lasts nearly 9 hours on a charge.

DISPLAY:

According to our colorimeter, the Aspire 5 produces 114 percent of the sRGB color gamut, matching the Inspiron 17 7000 and the premium laptop average (114 percent), but beating the Acer Aspire E 15 (74 percent).

The Aspire 5’s 334 nits of brightness is well above average (297 nits) and also surpasses the competition. The Inspiron 17 and Aspire E 15 only emit a measly 240 and 200 nits, respectively.

DESIGN:

The Aspire 5 is a visual upgrade from other Acer laptops. The notebook is black with silver accents. The Acer logo sits a the wave of ridges of its plastic chassis, while the engraved Aspire emblem gleams from the sleek silver hinge that just looks prestigious. The sturdy hinge allows me to bend it back so the display is parallel with the deck.

At 6.6 pounds and 16.7 x 11.4 x 1.1 inches, the Aspire 5 is on the heavy side, but that’s to be expected, given its large 17-inch screen and built-in optical drive. The Dell Inspiron 17 7000 2-in-1 is just barely lighter (6.4 pounds) and thinner (0.9 inches).

PERFORMANCE:

The quad-core, 1.8-GHz Intel i7-8550U processor, 12GB of RAM and 256GB SSD (not to mention the 1TB 5400RPM HDD and upgradeable storage) all but guarantee that the Aspire 5 will deliver powerful performance making it one of the best laptop under budget. 

The Aspire 5 earned a powerful 12,187 on the Geekbench 4 overall performance test. This knocks out the 9,882 premium laptop average and beats both the Aspire E 15 (9,278) and the Dell Inspiron 17 7000 2-in-1 (11,909), which both have a 1.6-GHz Intel Core i5-8250U CPU.

PORTS AND CONNECTIVITY:

The Aspire 5 features a decent number of ports. Starting on the left side, there’s a Kensington lock slot, an RJ45 port, one USB Type-C port, an HDMI port, one USB 3.0 port and an SD card slot. On the right, there’s the power jack, two USB 2.0 ports and a headphone/microphone jack.

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