Budget 51-70k Lightweight workhorse that goes on and on

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LaatSahab

Skilled
Budget: 50K(flexible)-70K(Strict)
Usage: Work (Excel, Proprietary B2B portals, GDS), Hobby coding (C and Python), occasional YouTube/movie
Requirements (in order of priority):
1. Battery Life
2. Fast boot and load
3. Good Network card, don't want erratic or frequent network drops in a Radiowave-rich environment
4. Performance
5. Lightweight
6. Screen quality
7. Sound quality

Need a full-size keyboard, not backlit. Screen resolution of at least 1080P. RAM expandability would be preferred if it's an 8GB model but would prefer LPDDR5 in that case. SSD at least 512GB, PCIe4.0 one.
Brand preference is not strong, have used Dell, HP, and, Asus laptops in the past so won't mind going for them again or opting for others such as MSI, Acer, Mi, etc but would avoid the newer ones such as Honor and Evita and the likes.
 
If battery life is an important consideration, and you're ok with Mac OS, you can check if you can get a Macbook M1 Air in your budget. It easily lasts the entire day on a single charge.

If not, you can consider Ryzen 7330u or 7530u based laptops. They are basically refreshed model of the 5300u and 5500u with slightly higher clock speeds.

Lightweight and full size keyboard are contradictory. Full-sized keyboard won't be there below 15.6" and most light weight laptops use 14" screen. If you consider 1.7kg as light weight, then you can get both. If you want something below 1.5 kg, then your choices are going to be extremely limited unless you forgo the numpad.

Sound quality, you should just drop. Laptops don't have good sound quality. Just use a decent pair of headphones or external soundbar for watching movies.
 
Anything under 2.5 Kg is OK. Screen size of 13 to 15.6 inches is OK. Was tempted to go for Mac but don’t know how it would play out in my use case where I have to create and work with Doc and Excel files and later send them as pdf and also edit some pdfs. Work detail also involves taking screenshots and editing them so use Snipping Tool a lot.
I do use both Android and Apple phone for work so if same functionality is available in Apple, won’t mind going for it as long as future OS updates don’t slow it down deliberately.
 
The deal with Excel on Mac is, it behaves bit differently than Windows, ex. When filtering a column, in excel you make your selections, click on, then the rows are updated, whereas on mac, it updates live. But if you’re looking for battery, you cant go wrong with a MacBook. The screenshotting capabilities I dare say are similar.
 
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