Budget 21-30k Basic 15" laptop with non soldered ram and a good screen, stereo speakers

greenhorn

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Friend of mine looking to buy a couple of laptops for his daughters in college
His needs
Num pad (kids studying accounting)
Good screen ( lots of movie viewing) - assume TN panels are out
Stereo speakers - same as above

I3/ryzen 3 minimum
No soldered ram

What's the cheapest new laptop that meets this spec?
 
Most laptops come pretty low Ram amounts out of the box and would prefer to have this upgradeable for future purposes. If one slot is stuck with a small soldered Ram then it still limits upgradability. To be honest the amount of cost cutting in modern entry level laptops makes me really annoyed (slots with no sockets, non replaceable keyboards, soldered ram, single antenna wifi adapters) but that's another topic. But at least this is something I want to avoid. My daily is a toshiba c640 from 2012 which would have been e waste if it had been stuck with it's factory 2gb. I'm running 2*8gb on it and it runs like a champ
 
Recently got an Acer Aspire Lite with Ryzen 3 5300U for 22k in Dussehra sale for my brother.

-the display is bright enough; never had to use it on full brightness.
-loud enough stereo speakers.
-has a numpad.
-RAM isn't soldered and there's an extra slot free as well.

Only thing I find lacking in it is a backlit keyboard, and there's no MS Office in it either.

PS: If I were to buy now, I would've gone with the recently introduced model with Ryzen 7330U CPU; it's better and also cheaper by about 1K.

Direct Links for both-

Acer Aspire Lite with Ryzen 5300U: https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0CWTSF1TK

Acer Aspire 3 with Ryzen 7330U: https://www.flipkart.com/acer-aspir...-a325-42-thin-light-laptop/p/itmdaf15e01a1d1a