Top 5 Best Laptops Under $700 (February 2016)

Planning to buy new laptop? I think laptops under 700 dollars is an ideal budget to look at. While searching for laptop at this price range, you will see that there are many leading laptop manufacturers offering their best portable computers. Some of them offers best performance, well some offers best designed and ultra-portable laptops. What kind of laptop would you like to buy? Well it totally depends on your personal needs and choices but I can give you few suggestions to buy best laptop under $700 for yourself from below given list…

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Laptops are personal devices. Every people utilizes it in their own ways at different places as per their needs. If we talk about students then they need laptop for their school home works, gaming, surfing internet etc. whereas business persons will need laptop for their office works like editing documents, sending emails, surfing web and other similar works. Well If I talk about myself then as a blogger, I need laptop with better keyboard to type long informative articles like this one. So all in all, your daily works is a major thing to consider while buying new laptop regardless your budget of buying laptop.

But, when you are dealing with laptops under $700 specifically you needn’t have to worry about whether your new laptop will be able to run all new softwares and games because all laptops at this budget come with powerful hardware. So it doesn’t matter what profession you are into and what kind of works you are going to deal with, below listed laptops are best for all your daily needs.

Want to play games? All laptops listed below will be able to run all latest games effortlessly! Want to run 4 apps side by side on Windows 10? Go for it. That would be buttery smooth as well.

Feeling impressed? Here is the list of best laptops within your budget of seven hundred dollars in no order…

Best Laptops under 700 Dollars – Top Picks

1) Lenovo Flex 3 14-Inch Touchscreen Laptop

Lenovo Flex 3 14 inch convertible laptop

Editor’s Choice – Best Convertible Laptop under $700

Lenovo Flex 3 is the third version of Flex series of laptops from Lenovo. Lenovo designed these laptops specially for the people who has to work with their laptops and tablets both. So to make it into one Lenovo designed this laptop which looks like a normal laptop at the first sight but it is actually a convertible laptop. You can flip its screen 180 degrees and its 14 inch touch screen display will delight you with smooth Windows 10 experience of it. It is built on aluminium chassis which makes this laptop light in weight and sturdy at the same time. Its keyboard doesn’t come with Num pad but it is great tactile laptop keyboard from Lenovo which makes easier to reach fingers in all corners while typing. Overall build quality of this laptop is as expected from brand like Lenovo. This laptop will be able to handle all your daily works easily as it has “Intel’s latest 6th generation i5 processor” and 8 GB of RAM. You get motherboard integrated graphics with this laptop and 1 TB of hard drive to store all your files and folders. This laptop can be told as best convertible laptop within 700 dollars because of its great 2 in 1 design and powerful hardware inside.

Technical Specifications –

OSWindows 10 64-bit
RAM8 GB DDR3L SDRAM
CPU2.3 GHz Intel Core i5-6200U 6th Generation Processor
DISPLAY14-Inch LED Touchscreen Display with 1920 x 1080 Resolution
Hard Disk1 TB HDD with 5400 RPM
GRAPHICS CARDIntel HD Graphics
BATTERY BACKUP5 Hours
WEIGHT3.96 Pounds

Price – $699.99


2) Acer Aspire E 15 Notebook

Acer Aspire E 15 Full HD Gaming Notebook

Editor’s Choice – Best Gaming Laptop under 700 Dollars

Acer’s Aspire series of laptops are usually all-purpose laptops but by looking at this laptop’s hardware configuration, I can say that this laptop will be best for gaming. It is rocking inside 5th generation Intel i7 processor and 8 GB of RAM. It comes with 4 GB dedicated graphics chip from NVIDIA so this laptop will be able to run all latest games without any problems. This notebook has full HD 15.6 inch display with great viewing angles. It’s outer body is made up of plastic which is durable and heat resistant. It has full keyboard with function keys and num pad. Track pad of this laptop is also great at pointing things and it does support mult-finger gestures. This notebook runs Windows 10 which is latest released operating system from Microsoft. This laptop does not have CD/DVD drive and this can be a major con for few people but it does come with all other required ports and slots. This is the best laptop for gaming at this price range so if you are looking for gaming laptop under $700 then definitely you should go with this notebook from Acer.

Technical Specifications –

OSWindows 10 64-bit
RAM8 GB DDR3L SDRAM
CPUIntel Core i7-5500U 5th Generation 2.4 GHz Processor
DISPLAY15.6-Inch Full HD LED-backlit display
Hard Disk1 TB 5400 RPM HDD
GRAPHICS CARDNVIDIA GeForce 940M 4 GB Graphics [Check Framerates]
BATTERY BACKUPup to 5 Hours
WEIGHT5.29 Pounds

Price – $699.99


3) Asus F554LA 15.6 Inch Laptop

Asus F554LA 15.6 Inch Laptop

As we all know Asus is a well-known brand and its laptops are always well-built and high performance laptops. If we talk about this laptop then it is a good looking professional laptop. It whole outer body is finished in black color which gives this laptop premium looks and shiny Asus branding on lid is icing on cake. This laptop has all required ports including VGA, HDMI, Ethernet, USB 3.0 and USB 2.0. This laptop also has built-in CD/DVD drive so if you want a laptop which can run DVD’s then this Asus laptop should be your choice. This laptop is powered by Intel 5th generation i7 processor and has 8 GB of RAM. It has Intel integrated graphics and 1 TB (1024 GB) of storage which is more than enough for storing all your favorite movies, music and other files and folders. It runs Windows 10 operating system so this laptop is best for doing daily works and also some high power consuming works like photo-video editing or gaming.

Technical Specifications –

OSWindows 10 Home 64 bit operating system
RAM8 GB DDR3L RAM
CPU5th Generation Intel Core i7-5500U 2.4 GHz Processor
DISPLAY15.6-Inch LED display with 1366 x 768 resolution
Hard Disk1 TB 5400 RPM
GRAPHICS CARDIntel HD Graphics 5500
BATTERY BACKUPup to 4 Hours
WEIGHT4.9 Pounds

Price – $698.99


4) Dell Inspiron 17 5000 Laptop

Dell Inspiron 17 5000 Premium HD laptop

It doesn’t matter what work it is, we all love to do it on bigger display. Well this laptop from Inspiron series of Dell is a great desktop replacement laptop. This laptop comes with huge 17.3 inches of touchscreen LED display which pleases while gaming and doing other works on this laptop. This is well-designed and well-built laptop like every other Dell laptops. It is finished in black and silver color which makes this laptop look professional. It has full keyboard with function keys and numeric pad. This laptop has HDMI port, Ethernet port and couple of USB ports. It also has CD/DVD writer and memory card slot. This Dell laptop has powerful AMD A8 quad core processor with Radeon R5 graphics. It has 8 GB of RAM and 1 TB of hard drive. Typically by seeing this laptop’s hardware configuration, it can be called as best all-purpose laptop under $700. I would recommend this laptop to the people who are seeking for best work and play combination in their new laptop.

Technical Specifications –

OSWindows 10 64-bit
RAM8GB 2 DIMM (2x4GB) DDR3L RAM
CPUAMD A8-7410 Quad Core 2.5 GHz Processor
DISPLAY17.3-Inch Full HD Truelife LED-backlit touchscreen display
Hard Disk1 TB 5400 RPM SATA Hard Drive
GRAPHICS CARDAMD Radeon R5 [Check Framerates]
BATTERY BACKUPup to 7 Hours
WEIGHT7.5 Pounds

Price – $668.00


5) Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E550

Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E550 Business Laptop

Editor’s Choice – Best Business Laptop under $700

If you are looking for a laptop which is built from scratch for business then there is nothing better than Lenovo’s ThinkPad series of laptop. Thinkpad Edge E550 is recently launched model which comes with best hardware specifications and design to fit your business needs. It has lot of useful features for business peoples and one of them is you can set finger print lock on this laptop because it comes with built-in finger print scanner. If we talk about its build quality then it is made up of durable materials which makes it a best laptop for daily wear and tears. Apart from tough build it has got pretty impressive hardware specifications inside. It is powered by 5th generation dual core Intel i5 processor and has graphics co processor from AMD. It has 8 GB of RAM and 500 GB of hard drive. This laptop will produce enough power to meet all your business expectations. This ThinkPad laptop also comes with signature keyboard and touch pad of Lenovo so if you are looking for best business laptop under 700 dollars then this is the best business laptop you will ever find at this price range.

Technical Specifications –

OSWindows 7 Pro (free upgrade to Windows 10)
RAM8 GB DDR3 RAM
CPUIntel Core i7-5500U Dual Core Processor (4M, 2.4GHz-3GHz)
DISPLAY15.6″ Full HD Anti-Reflective LED-backlit Display
Hard Disk500 GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive
GRAPHICS CARDAMD Radeon R7 M260 2 GB Graphics [Check Framerates]
BATTERY BACKUPup to 6-7 Hours
WEIGHT5.21 Pounds

Price – $694.95


This were the best laptops under 700 dollars for all kinds of uses. So whether you are looking for gaming laptops or business laptops or combination of both, you will be able to find laptop to fit all your needs from above given list. I would also like to tell you that all above listed laptops are from well-known and trustworthy laptop manufacturers so you can buy any laptop without worrying about anything.

Tell me in comments if you have any questions regarding these laptops or if you want any further more assistance in buying laptop for yourself.