Apple MacBook Neo

Why it's our Upgrade pick

• TechRadar calls it the best budget laptop you can buy; Tom's Hardware measured 13 hours 28 minutes of battery and TechRadar about 13.5 hours.
• An aluminium body and a 13-inch 2408 x 1506 screen (452 nits measured by Tom's Hardware), sharper than the Full HD panels on Windows laptops at this price.
• Marques Brownlee calls it incredibly capable for the money; it costs ₹71,890 on Amazon.in against Apple India's ₹79,900.

Watch out: Only 8 GB of memory, no keyboard backlight and no Touch ID on this model, and one of its two USB-C ports runs at slow USB 2 speed.