Best Thin and Light Laptops in India (2022)

The HP Pavilion Aero 13 is one of the best thin and light laptops in India in terms of power and portability. The thin and light laptop packs in a powerful AMD Ryzen 5 5600U Hexa Core processor. The AMD Ryzen 5 chip is an APU meaning it's a combination of the six-core CPU and Radeon GPU. As a result, the laptop delivers great performance in graphics heavy applications and gaming. HP Pavilion Aero 13 has an overall weight of 970g making it one of the best lightweight laptops on the market. Other important specs of this laptop include a 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD storage and a 16:10 aspect ratio 1080p display. All these features and more make HP Pavilion Aero 13 one of the best thin and light laptops in India.

Making the perfect thin and light laptop is pretty difficult but Lenovo came pretty close with its Yoga Slim 7i Carbon. The laptop is neatly designed, extremely powerful, portable and looks like a million bucks. For starters, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Carbon is built from Carbon fiber materials that have undergone military grade testing. In terms of looks however, the laptop still appears to be a stylish-looking device thanks to its arctic white body colour. Moving on to performance, and the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Carbon uses an Intel 11th Gen Core i7 quad core CPU along with 16GB RAM. For storage purposes, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Carbon features a superfast 1TB SSD, which is enough for all your files and then some. The laptop also uses a QHD screen with 300 nits brightness and 100% sRGB. Overall, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Carbon is one of the best slim and light laptops available on the market.

Thin and light laptops and gaming don’t usually go together. However, Acer broke this stereotype with the Swift X thin and light gaming laptop. Powered by an AMD Ryzen 5 5600U Hexa-core processor and an Nvidia RTX 3050 GPU with 4GB GDDR6 VRAM, the Acer Swift X is one of the best thin and light laptops on the market. In addition to packing powerful components, the Acer Swift X manages to remain very portable thanks to an overall weight of just 1.39kg. The laptop also has a pretty good battery life thanks to a 1080p display primarily geared towards power efficiency. All these features make Acer Swift X one of the best thin and light laptops in India for work and play.

Thanks to fine Japanese engineering, the FUJITSU UH-X 2-in-1 laptop gained a huge success in India in a relatively short time. Launched in 2021, the FUJITSU laptop quickly gained popularity due to its supreme build quality, design and performance. Powered by an Intel Core i7 quad core processor and 16GB DDR4 RAM, the FUJITSU UH-X 2-in-1 laptop runs resource heavy applications and softwares with ease. The laptop’s 1080p display also incorporates a touch panel which is a big boon for digital artists and other creative users. Additionally, the laptop also features two high resolution cameras for online meetings and video conferencing, making the FUJITSU UH-X 2-in-1 laptop one of the best thin and light laptops for business users as well.

Realme’s first product in the laptop space, the Realme Book (Slim) is easily one of the best thin and light laptops you can buy in India right now. It comes with a solid set of specifications on-board, complete with a 14-inch 2K panel with a 3:2 aspect ratio. The laptop also comes with 11th gen Intel Core processors with integrated graphics. You can choose between i3 or an i5 variant.

Apple's MacBook Air is considered to be one of the best premium lightweight laptops. The newer version of the laptop that came out last year with Apple's M1 chip is even better because they deliver incredible performance. Yes, the MacBook Air M1 is a little more expensive than most Windows laptops on this list, but the new M1 processor makes it exceptional value for money. In fact, the M1-powered MacBook Air is a better purchase than the Intel-powered MacBook Air.

You also get Apple's new keyboard with this laptop and the build quality is stellar too. The only downside is the inclusion of a 720p FaceTime camera, which can definitely use some improvement.

Dell's XPS series is known to have some of the best thin and light notebooks on the market with almost little to no compromise. With XPS 13, you are essentially getting a well-built laptop with the latest powerful hardware including the 11th-gen Intel Core i5 & i7 processors. With the Dell XPS 13, you get a 13.4-inch display with super-thin bezels that makes it stand out in the crowd.

The Dell XPS machines tend to run a little hot given the kind of performance you get out of this thin form factor, but the laptop can handle all your day-to-day workloads without any issues. You also get very respectable battery life out of these laptops which means you won't be hugging a power socket all the time.

The HP Spectre x360 is the company's flagship notebook when it comes to the thin and light category. It's a hybrid premium notebook that gives other laptops a run for their money. The 2-in-1 form factor makes it very versatile and easy to use for many users. HP has also updated the laptop with the new 11th-gen Intel Core i7 processors, making them a good option to consider if you want the latest processors.

The HP Spectre x360 comes with a super high-resolution display and great quality speakers that are tuned by B&O, making it one of the best in its class. The HP Spectre x360 also shines with its battery life, lasting for as long as up to 10+ hours on a single charge. You can read our review of the HP Spectre x360 here.

The Acer Swift 3 series of laptops is a great thin and light machine offering a good blend of performance and portability. However, the newest Acer Swift 3 equipped with the Intel 12th Gen processor seems capable of so much more and then some. The latest Acer Swift 3 comes with an Intel Core i5-1240P processor which is a 12-core 16-thread unit capable of delivering high performance and efficiency. On top of that, the Acer Swift 3 also features a 512GB PCIe Gen 4 SSD which takes full advantage of the new processor. Acer Swift 3 has 16GB LPDDR4X system memory as well. The laptop gets a 14-inch QHD display with 2560 x 1440 maximum resolution support. The screen also covers 100% of the sRGB colour spectrum and has a peak brightness of 300 nits.

ASUS recently launched the ExpertBook B9400 in India and we think it's one of the best ultrabooks on the market right now. It's the world's lightest 14-inch business laptop and its form factor makes it feel like you are carrying a file, not a full-fledged Windows laptop. The ASUS ExpertBook B9400 is based on Intel's EVO platform which means you can rely on the notebook to offer snappy performance when it comes to day-to-day usage.

The laptop also has a great keyboard to type on and its oversized trackpad is just a joy to use. The trackpad on the ExpertBook B9400 also doubles up as a numpad thanks to ASUS' NumPad 2.0 tech. The ExpertBook B9400 is powered by Intel's 11th-gen Core i7-1165G7 processor and you can learn more about its performance in our detailed review here.