20 Best Laptops Under Rs.25000

The next generations of laptops are entering and quite struggling in the Indian market due to their huge price. This price sensitive Indian market has always something better for those who are budget seeker. Here is a huge list of affordable laptops which will never burn a hole in your pocket.

1. Toshiba Satellite C665-P5010

The Toshiba Satellite C665-P5010 laptop is equipped with 15.6 LED backlit display with 1366x768 pixels of resolution. The laptop house a 2.0 GHz Intel Dual Core P6100 processor, 2 GB of RAM, is integrated with Intel HD graphics, DVD drive and supports 320 GB of hard disk.

The laptop also has Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, two USB 2.0 ports, built in webcam with face recognition feature, built in microphone, stereo speakers and multimedia card reader. It has a price tag of 19,500.

2. HP Compaq CQ43-300AU

The HP Compaq CQ43-300AU is a sleek and stylish laptop powered by 1.3 GHz AMD Dual Core E-300 processor, 2 GB DDR3 RAM and also includes AMD Radeon HD 6310 graphic processor.

The laptop comes with 14 inch LED BrightView display with 1366x768 pixels of resolution, Altec Lansing speakers, built in 0.3 MP webcam, digital microphone, SuperMulti DVD drive, card reader and for connectivity it has Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, VGA ports, three USB 2.0 ports and audio input and output slots. This laptop is available for 19,500.

3. HP Compaq 420

The HP Compaq 420 laptop has 14 inch LED-backlit HD display with 1366x768 pixels of resolution. It is powered by 2.3 GHz Intel Pentium Dual Core processor, 1 GB of DDR3 RAM along with a Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD.

The laptop has 320 GB of hard disk SuperMulti DL LightScribe DVD optical drive, integrated with Altec Lansing speakers, webcam, microphone and for connectivity it has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Gigabit Ethernet port, three USB 2.0, memory card reader, VGA and HDMI ports. This laptop is available for 21,000.

4. Asus X52F-EX1408D

The Asus X Series X52F-EX1408D has a shinny brown finish body, 15.6 HD Glare display with 1366x768 pixels of resolution and is powered by 2.13 GHz Intel Pentium Dual Core P6200 processor with integrated Intel GMA HD graphics and 2 GB of DDR3 RAM.

It also features 320 GB of SATA hard disk, 0.3 MP Webcam, internal microphone, stereo speakers, SuperMulti Dual Layer DVD drive and for connectivity it has Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi, USB, HDMI and VGA ports. This laptop has a price tag of 20,500.

5. Lenovo Essential G570-(59-310838)

The G570-(59-310838) is powered by 1.5 GHz Intel Celeron processor and 2 GB DDR3 RAM. The laptop comes with 15.6 inch HD LED Glare display with 1366-768 pixels of resolution, 0.3 MP Webcam, built in speakers and microphone, Tray-in Rambo DVD drive, 500 GB hard disk and for connectivity it has Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, USB, HDMI, VGA ports and micro card reader. This laptop is available for 21,500.

6. Asus X54H-SX136D

The fully black finished Asus X54H-SX136D is powered by 2.1 GHz Intel Pentium Dual Core B950 processor and 2 GB of DDR3 RAM. It sports a 15.6 inch HD Glare display with 1366x768 pixels of resolution.

It also features SuperMulti Dual Layer DVD drive, webcam integrated with microphone, inbuilt stereo speakers, multi card reader and for connectivity it has Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, VGA and USB ports. This laptop has a price tag of 21,700.

7. Samsung RV513-A01IN

The RV513-A01IN is a stylish laptop featuring 15.6 inch HD LED display with 1633x768 pixels of resolution with anti reflective screen. It is powered by 1.6 GHz AMD Dual Core E 350 processor, 2 GB of RAM, AMD Radeon integrated graphics and supports 320 GB of hard disk.

Other features include Supermulti dual layer optical drive, integrated webcam and microphone, SRS 3D sound effect, stereo speakers and for connectivity it has Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, multi card reader, three USB 2.0 and one HDMI ports. This laptop has a price tag of 21,700.

8. Asus X53E-SX997D

The Asus X53E-SX997D look very beautiful with its snow white finished body. The laptop is powered by 1.6 GHz AMD Dual Core B800 processor, 2 GB of DDR3 RAM and is integrated with Intel HD Graphics 3000 GPU.

It comes with 15.6 inch HD Glare display with 1366x768 pixels of resolution, SuperMulti Dual Layer optical drive, built in 0.3 MP webcam, microphone, stereo speaker and for connectivity it has Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi, USB and VGA ports. It is available for 21,500.

11. Acer Aspire 5733z

The Aspire 5733z is powered by 2.1 GHz Intel Pentium Dual Core 6200 processor, Intel 128 MB Grafix, 2 GB of DDR3 RAM and supports 500 GB of hard disk. It comes with 15.6 inch LED backlight display featuring CineCrystal screen.

The laptop also has webcam, built in speakers and microphone and for connectivity it has Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and ports like HDMI, VGA, Ethernet, USB. This laptop is available for 23,000.

12. HP 430

The HP 430 is a business versatile laptop which fulfills all requirements for business and entertainment. It is powered by 2.1 GHz Intel’s second generation Pentium Dual Core i3-370M processor, Intel HD graphics, 2 GB DDR3 RAM and supports 500 GB of hard disk.

The laptop comes with 14 inch High-Definition LED display with 1366x768 pixels of resolution, LightScribe SuperMulti Drive with Double Layer Support optical drive, 0.3 MP webcam, digital microphone and for connectivity it has Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, three USB ports, HDMI port and VGA port. This laptop has a price tag of 23,300

13. Samsung NP300E5Z-A01IN

The Samsung NP300E5Z-A01IN is specially designed for long lasting performance, reliability and value for money. It is powered by 2.0 GHz Intel second generation Pentium Dual Core processor, Intel HD graphics, 2 GB of DDR3 RAM and supports 500 GB of hard disk.

It sports 15.6 inch anti-reflective HD LED display with 1366x768 pixels of resolution, in built webcam, digital microphone, speakers with SRS 3D surround sound technology, SuperMulti Double Layer Support optical drive and for connectivity it has all the necessary ports and has a price tag of 23,600.

14. Asus K53SC-SX226D

The Asus K53SC-SX226D is powered by 2.0 GHz Intel second generation Pentium Dual Core processor, NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M graphic card, 2 GB of DDR3 RAM and supports 500 GB hard disk.

It comes with 15.6 inch display, internal speakers, microphones and webcam. For connectivity it has HDMI, USB, VGA, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and multi card reader. This laptop has a price tag of 25,000.

15. Samsung NP305-U1A-A02IN

The Samsung NP300E5Z-A02IN is powered by 1.6 GHz AMD Dual Core processor, AMD Radeon graphics, 2 GB of DDR3 RAM and supports 320 GB of hard disk.

It sports 11.6 inch anti-reflective HD LED display with 1366x768 pixels of resolution, in built webcam, digital microphone, speakers with SRS 3D surround sound technology, SuperMulti Double Layer Support optical drive and for connectivity it has all the necessary ports and comes with a price tag of 23,500.

16. HP Pavilion DM1- 3210AU

The HP DMI 3210AU sports 11.6 inch LED HP BrightView display with 1366×768 pixels of resolution. It is powered by 1.6 GHz AMD Athlon II Dual-Core E-350 processor, AMD Radeon HD 6310M Graphics Card, 2 GB of RAM and supports 320 GB hard disk.

It comes with integrated webcam, digital microphone, stereo speaker with Dolby Advanced Audio technology and for connectivity it has Bluetooth, Ethernet, USB, HDMI, VGA and 4 in 1 multi card reader. This laptop has a price tag of 23,500.

17. Lenovo Essential G470

This laptop is powered by the 2.2 GHz Intel second generation Core i3 processor, 2 GB of RAM and supports 320 GB hard disk.

It sports a 14.1 inch LED Glare display with 1366x768 pixels of resolution, built in webcam, microphone, stereo speaker, Tray-in Rambo optical drive and for connectivity it has Gigabit Ethernet, VGA, HDMI, USB ports, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. This laptop has a price tag of 23,800.

18. Acer Aspire 4739z

The Aspire 4739z is powered by 2.13 GHz Intel Pentium Dual Core 6200 processor, Intel 128 MB Grafix, 2 GB of DDR3 RAM and supports 500 GB of hard disk. It comes with 14.1 inch LED backlight display.

The laptop also has webcam, built in speakers and microphone and for connectivity it has Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and has ports like HDMI, VGA, Ethernet, USB. This laptop is available for 22,500.

19. HP Compaq CQ43-300TU

The HP CQ43-300TU is powered by 2.1 GHz Intel Pentium Dual Core processor, Intel HD Graphics, 2 GB of DDR3 RAM and support 500 GB hard disk.

The laptop sports 14 inch screen with 1366x768 pixels of resolution, SuperMulti DVD with Double Layer Support, built in webcam, microphone and speakers. For connectivity it has Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, HDMI, VGA, Ethernet and USB. This laptop is available for 24,000.

20. Lenovo S100

The Lenovo S100 comes in a 10.1 inch LED backlit display with 1024x600 pixels of resolution. It is powered by 1.66GHz Intel Atom N570 dual-core processor, Intel GMA 3150 integrated graphics, 2 GB of RAM and 320 GB of hard disk.

It also has 2 MP webcam, microphone, speakers and for connectivity it has Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, HDMI, VGA, Ethernet, USB and multi card reader. This laptop is available for 18,000.

This is Why Facebook Should Launch its Browser

Bangalore: Facebook has plenty of reasons to worry! Google Chrome is improving day by day and is bound to be the number one browser sometime in next 12 months. Adding to this, the number of Google+ users has crossed 170 million and rising.

The recent Statcounter report on browsers showed a 30.9 percentage Chrome usage compared to the 34.8 covered by internet explorer, which is leading the market from a decade. Chrome just achieved this in a matter of three years and is bound to dominate the browser market within no time.

But how is this connected to Facebook, which is essentially a social network and not a desktop software company? Well, the answer lies in Google’s ambitious plans with its social network Google+

Google is planning to become the “Voltron” of the web space- i.e. to become the ultimate power train combining its small but strong parts (Gmail, Android, Chrome, Google search and so on). Google+ will be the “spine” of the structure, integrating these products.

Since Google+ is not designed as a standalone product, it can be integrated into any of Google’s products, especially Chrome. Think about it a moment, in a single update, Google could turn Chrome into its own version of Rockmelt! From the next day, Chrome would be a social browser that puts Google+ in front of users before they even type Facebook.com in the address bar.

Do you think Google will never do it? Well, there are already many extensions released that integrate Google+ into Chrome. So it will be just a matter of decision for Google.

What is the role of Facebook?

Facebook may be the king of web now and Google+ hasn’t been able to do anything till now. But don’t forget that browser is still the valley that people should walk through to access the websites. So if Google keep Google+ as a luring fruit in the valley, many will taste it or at least try to touch it, by which it may finally end the dominance of Facebook.

Facebook can fight back by integrating themselves into its investor’s browser, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. But considering the evolution of IE, it will be better for Facebook to build a cool, enchanting browser of its own and use its massive reach of social network to promote it. This may put Google in the defensive. The only question is whether Facebook will take up the battle before it’s too late.

5 Things You Did Not Know about Google

Information today has become as available as the internet, literally; but where would the world be without the revolutionary invention that made this happen? Nobody (except maybe Google) knows.

And since Google makes it its business to know all about everybody, have you ever wondered how much you know about the world’s most popular search engine? (If you haven’t, now is probably a good time to start).

Marissa Mayer, the vice president of local, maps, and localization at Google, has been on Google’s team from the second year after the search engine launched. Being on the team for so long has let her see Google’s growth first-hand, and in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, she listed out five things you probably didn’t know about the search engine.

Here are the five so-far-unknown insider anecdotes about Google:

1. Why so much of Google’s homepage is white:

Google's dependence on white space on its homepage was one that arose purely out of necessity, and not because it wanted to be minimalist in design. According to Mayer, Sergey Brin, Google co-founder explained “We don’t have a webmaster and I don’t do HTML.”

2. How Google's AdSense happened:

Mayer, in the interview, said she almost killed the idea of targeting ads based on users’ e-mails, because she (at first) thought the idea was “creepy”. However, a colleague working an all-nighter overlooked her dismissal of the idea, and thus started ads-in-e-mail.

Today, Google’s AdSense is a multi-billion dollar business.

3. How much would it take to occupy some white space?

According to Google’s calculation, an ad on its home page would cost at least $10 million, if not more, apparently.

If only the space were for sale! (But then again, the only white space humankind knows on the internet would be cluttered with stuff we see everywhere else).

4. Why did the Google homepage have a copyright symbol on it?

Talking about the white space on Google—the page had the copyright symbol installed after initial test users did nothing but stare at the home page, “waiting for the rest of it to load,” Mayer said. It’s not necessary, but the symbol served as a sign that the minimal page had finished loading and was ready for a search entry.

5. And about acquiring things...

Mayer once had an extreme fascination for Motorola’s circa-1996 StarTAC mobile phone; she even bought used models of the phone on e-Bay to try and build up a collection.
But any resemblance to the incident, whether from fiction or real-life (read “Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility") is like when you happen to hoard a product and then come to a point years later where you buy the company that makes said product— it’spurely coincidental.

Hottest Technologies of 2015 And Beyond

It’s human nature to fantasize about the future. But have you ever imagined your mobile changing its shape to fit your pocket or having a two inch music player, which can store all your music achieves?

This is how technology around you is evolving and in five to ten years from now, companies including IBM, Intel and Microsoft will commercialize many of these technologies which were once, just a fantasy.

SkinDisplay

The technology was developed by Clara Gaggero, head of Vitamins Design Ltd in a BlackBerry sponsored project. SkinDisplay uses piezoelectricity to display raised-up letters on the back of your phone, which can be imprinted into your thumb with a press. The raised-up message includes caller name, reason for call and the urgency, which is represented by three dots.

"If you're in a meeting and you hear your phone ring, you immediately get stressed out because you can't answer it. Is it an emergency? Is something wrong with the kids? We wanted to give the phone a chance to be discreet," Gaggero says.

So you simply put your hand in pocket, press the raised portion in mobile and read the imprinted message in your hand without anybody knowing it. The technology was patented by Research In Motion, the BlackBerry maker in 2011.

Microsoft’s Future Home

People who visit Microsoft’s executive briefing home in Redmond, Wash will be welcomed with a full scale model home of the future including kitchen, living room, dining room and a foyer. As soon as you enter the home, it will start briefing you on things that happened since you left including news that your son got A grade in math test, The air conditioner stopped working, your electric scooter will be charged in 27 minutes and you have six voice mails.

The home is completely equipped with micro sensors which help it to learn a lot including your daily routines. It will tell how to cook a dish, referring the things you have in fridge, remind you to take the medicines and automatically send a message to you or relatives if it finds anything out of ordinary like leaving the doors unlocked. According to Microsoft, the technology based on internet and “cloud” will become affordable and common within five years.

Intel’s Programmable matter

Imagine you stretching the mobile to make it big or pressing a button to convert it instantly to a lap top. It seems impossible, but that is what Intel is currently working on i.e. shape shifting technology and the company things it will be possible within next decade.

Intel has already built sphere shaped microrobots called “catoms,” which has enogh computing power to be self programmable. Millions of them work together to take a particular shape. Intel currently is successful in making catoms with 1 millimeter diameter and is trying to make the diameter tenth of a millimeter. If this material were used to make a device's casing, it would be theoretically possible for your smartphone or tablet to change shape whenever you want.

Intel plans to use the technology first in health field, where doctors can model the 3-D structure of organs for diagnosis

IBM’s 12 atom memory storage

To store one bit of data, you now need about 1 million magnetically charged atoms, a main reason why hard drive capacity is not getting much bigger related to physical size. But in January this year, IBM announced that it stored one bit in just 12 atoms, a technology which could increase the capacity of hard disks to 100 times without increasing size.

Eventhogh IBM achieved the success in limited conditions in a lab with an electron microscope, the company believes that it can eventually use the results to bring something significant into market.

So you could see a 2 inch iPod shuffle which can store an entire archive of pop songs back from 1950’s or a hard drive with 300 TB capacity in the near future.

IBM’s Lithium Air battery

The batteries currently used in electric cars have the same limitation as the magnetic tapes. If you want more mileage on a single charge, you will have to pack more batteries into the vehicle.

That is where IBM’s next generation Lithium- Air battery technology will play. It can power a car for 500 miles on a single charge.

The battery generates electricity from a reaction between Lithium and Oxygen ions and it will be much denser and can store more than the existing Lithium-ion batteries.

IBM plans to produce a working prototype next year and is collaborating with several labs on the project.

Seeweed-powered supersonic airplane

Aero planes are the fastest means of travel but on the other hand it’s a major contributor to air pollution. But imagine travelling 3 times faster than the airplane which has zero emissions- offered by aircraft manufacturer EADS's Zero Emission Hyper Sonic Transport (ZEHST).

A prototype was first unveiled in Paris Air Show last year and is due out in 2050. The high speed aircraft uses bio-fuel made of seaweed and has three engine types- jets, rockets and “ramjets” which is the supersonic version. It speeds the aircraft to 5000 kmph, which will significantly cut down the time. For a clear picture it will take you from Paris to Tokyo in 2.5 hours which now takes 11 hours.

5 Daring Predictions about Technology in 2020

With the rate of advent of technology, nothing seems to be unachievable. Some of our wildest imaginations might come to life by the year 2020.

Every second in the world of tech something new is being innovated and invented. The latest smart-phone that you bought yesterday and are so proud about can become out dated by the end of next week. In this era when science seems to have reached the point of saturation but it is actually growing at the rate of a big-bang, futurologists are not hesitating to predict that technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Digital Media will take there places in a common man’s living room.

Let’s take a look at some of the astonishing predictions which can take real shapes by the year 2020.

1.Holographic Avatars

Would it not be interesting to see the receptionist at a hotel book your rooms and then vanish into thin air? All of us have seen the Jedi Knights communicating with their holographic projection communicators. The day isn’t far when we might be using one of those to make presentations in multiple auditoriums at once. It doesn’t stop there; the same technology can even be modified to create avatars with human like physical capability and intelligence to replace staffs in a hotel or nurses in a hospital.

2.Oops! All the money is digitalized

Money is a tough commodity to handle. We all want money but we don’t want to manage it. Technological ascent in the past decade has made the management of money very easy through credit-cards and internet banking. By the year 2020 futurists are expecting that there would not be any hard bills in use and all the monetary transactions would happen through cell-phones and computers. The smallest to the largest amount of transaction would not require the involvement of any painstaking procedure in the bank; instead it would take is a few clicks on your cell-phone.

3.From smart-phones to smart-jewelry.

Fashion and Technology are the most effective trends of this age. Future has a lot more in store with these two trends’ infusion to create some amazing products. In the next decade, a bracelet or an earring would not just be a mere accessory. Scientists have already started developing jewelry embedded with technologies like Bluetooth, Wifi etc. Imagine a watch which is also a Smartphone and a necklace that can store Giga-bytes of data. That is exactly where science and technology is taking us we are more than happy to follow it.

4.Small but Intelligent

Technologies like VLSI, ULSI and Nano-technology have already made our whole world shrink into the cupboard space. 30 years ago, a computer that took a huge room to fit into can be placed on the tip of our finger today. The amount of intelligence that these devices have and the level of processing hey can do without human indulgence is immense. Under such circumstances where intelligence can be embedded into smallest possible device, we might see a future where from a calculator to a space shuttle launcher, all will be able to sense the environment and work accordingly, and most amazing thing is that they would all defy human intelligence. All of this takes “Very less Space Indeed”.

5.The Cloud that knows all

Cloud Computing is already in its adolescence. In a decade, all the computers will be connected to each other via the cloud and all the data in them will be stored in the cloud. This would not just make the size of our computing devices small but will also enable us to access any data in any computer (under certain applied conditions) placed anywhere in the world. Futurists predict that by 2020, not just all the computers but all the electronic devices around us will be connected to cloud to create a huge family which is sharing data to serve the world better.