Reliance Digital Gaming Laptop Prices July 2026: the RTX Tax

Seventy thousand four hundred and ninety-five rupees, two per cent off a stated Rs. 71,758 — a discount of one thousand two hundred and sixty-three rupees, and the smallest badge in our fifty-five-listing read. Start here because it explains the page. A discrete GPU is the one component in consumer computing whose street price is checked to the rupee before purchase: buyers arrive at the shelf already knowing what an RTX 3050 machine costs, having read a benchmark chart, and a retailer facing that buyer has nowhere to put theatre. So the MRP is set within a whisker of the selling price and the badge is honest by force. What you get for the money is the older half of the Victus range — a Ryzen 5 5600H from the 5000 series, paired with a 4 GB RTX 3050 — which is a fair 1080p machine and a poor value against the Rs. 66,495 8645HS model two picks down. Buy this only if the 3050 specifically matters to you; otherwise the chapter has cheaper answers with newer silicon.

• Price: Rs. 70,495 (stated MRP Rs. 71,758)
• Key specification: Ryzen 5 5600H, 16 GB, 512 GB SSD, RTX 3050 4 GB — the read's shallowest badge
• Discount: 2% off, which is Rs. 1,263
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: The 2% machine
• Buying logic: the badge with nowhere to hide

Sixty-six thousand four hundred and ninety-five rupees, three per cent off a stated Rs. 68,499 — the cheapest gaming laptop in our read, and the one we would actually buy from this chapter. The Ryzen 5 8645HS is the newest CPU in the four-machine Victus row, a 2024-generation eight-core part that outruns both the 5600H above it and the Core i5-13420H below it on multi-threaded work, and it is attached to the entry RTX 2050. Read the row as a grid rather than a list and the logic falls out: for one thousand five hundred rupees less than the i5 machine at Rs. 67,995 you get the same GPU and a better processor. The 2050 is the honest weak point — it is a 4 GB card that plays 1080p at medium settings and will not age gracefully — so if games are the actual purpose rather than the excuse, the Rs. 81,990 6 GB RTX 3050 is the machine that lasts. If the GPU is for video editing, CUDA acceleration and occasional play, this is the correct rupee.

• Price: Rs. 66,495 (stated MRP Rs. 68,499)
• Key specification: Ryzen 5 8645HS, 16 GB, 512 GB SSD, RTX 2050 4 GB — cheapest gaming laptop in the read
• Discount: 3% off, which is Rs. 2,004
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: Cheapest gaming laptop here
• Buying logic: the newest chip, the lowest price

Sixty-seven thousand nine hundred and ninety-five rupees, four per cent off a stated Rs. 70,995. This is the same Victus 15 chassis, the same 16 GB and 512 GB, the same 4 GB RTX 2050 — and a Core i5-13420H instead of the Ryzen 5 8645HS, for one thousand five hundred rupees more. That is the whole comparison, and it is the sort a shopping page owes you rather than burying under adjectives. The i5-13420H is a capable 2023 part with strong single-thread speed, which genuinely helps in applications that never learned to use more than one core, and Intel's platform still has the wider peripheral and Thunderbolt support. Against that, the AMD chip is a year newer and cheaper. Neither is a mistake; the honest framing is that Rs. 1,500 is a small enough gap that brand preference is allowed to decide, which is not something we get to say often. Note also the badge arithmetic: 4% here, 3% there, and the two machines are three thousand rupees apart in reality. On this shelf the percentage tells you nothing at all.

• Price: Rs. 67,995 (stated MRP Rs. 70,995)
• Key specification: Core i5-13420H, 16 GB, 512 GB SSD, RTX 2050 4 GB, Mica Silver
• Discount: 4% off, which is Rs. 3,000
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: The Rs. 1,500 sidestep
• Buying logic: Intel or AMD, Rs. 1,500 apart

Eighty-one thousand nine hundred and ninety rupees, six per cent off a stated Rs. 86,999 — and the reason to end this chapter here. Hold the chassis, the processor, the memory and the storage constant, change only the graphics card, and the shelf tells you what a GPU costs: the Core i5-13420H Victus with a 4 GB RTX 2050 is Rs. 67,995, the identical Core i5-13420H Victus with a 6 GB RTX 3050 is Rs. 81,990. Thirteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-five rupees, for one component, inside one model line, with no other variable moving. That is a rare piece of pricing transparency and it is worth internalising before you shop anywhere else. Is it worth it? For 1080p gaming at high settings and for anything touching video encode or local AI work, yes — the 6 GB frame buffer is the difference between a machine that ages three years and one that ages five. For light play, no. But you now know the number, which is more than the badge column will ever tell you: 4% and 6%, on machines Rs. 13,995 apart.

• Price: Rs. 81,990 (stated MRP Rs. 86,999)
• Key specification: Core i5-13420H, 16 GB, 512 GB SSD, RTX 3050 6 GB — the GPU step inside one chassis
• Discount: 6% off, which is Rs. 5,009
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: The GPU step, priced exactly
• Buying logic: Rs. 13,995 for one component

Fifty-one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rupees, thirty-three per cent off a stated Rs. 77,990 — the deepest gaming-laptop discount in our read, and the pick that proves the chapter's rule rather than breaking it. The Ryzen 5 5500H inside is a 2021 part, two full generations behind the 8645HS in the chapter above and one behind the 5600H; it is paired with 8 GB of memory where every other gaming machine here carries 16, and a 60 Hz panel where the category has moved to 144. In other words, this is not a discounted current machine, it is a current price on an old machine, and the badge is the shelf clearing inventory that stopped being cross-shopped. That is a legitimate purchase — Rs. 51,999 is the cheapest discrete graphics in this read by fourteen and a half thousand rupees, the RTX 2050 is the same card as the Rs. 66,495 Victus, and 8 GB of memory is upgradeable on this chassis for about Rs. 3,000. Buy it knowing what it is. The 60 Hz screen is the part you cannot upgrade.

• Price: Rs. 51,999 (stated MRP Rs. 77,990)
• Key specification: Ryzen 5 5500H, 8 GB, 512 GB SSD, RTX 2050 4 GB, 15.6-inch 60 Hz IPS
• Discount: 33% off, which is Rs. 25,991
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: Biggest gaming discount
• Buying logic: a current price on an old machine

One lakh nine hundred and ninety rupees, twenty-nine per cent off a stated Rs. 142,999 — the most capable graphics in our read and, at 29%, an unusually deep badge for that fact. Two things are true at once. The machine is genuinely the top of this shelf: an RTX 5050 with 8 GB of video memory paired with a Core i7-13620H, which is enough for 1440p play, serious video work and local model inference in a way nothing else here manages. And the stated Rs. 142,999 is the least believable number on this page — a Rs. 42,000 gap between MRP and price, on a category whose other listings sit within seven per cent of sticker, tells you the MRP is decorative. Judge the Rs. 100,990 on its own. Against the Rs. 84,490 RTX 4050 Nitro three picks down, you are paying Rs. 16,500 for a newer-generation card with double the frame buffer, which is the better long-term rupee if the budget stretches. Against the Rs. 51,999 IdeaPad, it is twice the machine for twice the money — for once, a proportionate ladder.

• Price: Rs. 100,990 (stated MRP Rs. 142,999)
• Key specification: Core i7-13620H, 16 GB, 512 GB SSD, RTX 5050 8 GB — most powerful GPU in the read
• Discount: 29% off, which is Rs. 42,009
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: Most graphics card here
• Buying logic: the MRP is decorative

Seventy-four thousand nine hundred and ninety rupees, twenty-three per cent off a stated Rs. 96,990. Every other gaming machine in this read is a 39.62 cm — 15.6-inch — panel; this is the one 40.64 cm, and if you have ever worked a spreadsheet or a timeline on a 15-inch laptop you know that the extra inch of diagonal is worth more in ordinary use than any frame-rate figure. Asus's TUF line is also the one built around a durability claim rather than a performance one: military-standard drop and temperature testing, a chassis that survives being carried badly. The listing's weakness is its vagueness — it states "4 GB Nvidia Graphics" without naming the card, which for a category where the GPU model is the entire purchase decision is a real omission, and we would not buy without confirming the exact part in store. Note too that the Core 5 210H is Intel's new naming for a mid-tier mobile chip and not the i7 the price implies. Buy for the screen and the build. Ask about the GPU first.

• Price: Rs. 74,990 (stated MRP Rs. 96,990)
• Key specification: Core 5 210H, 16 GB, 512 GB SSD, 4 GB Nvidia graphics, 16-inch Full HD
• Discount: 23% off, which is Rs. 22,000
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: The 16-inch outlier
• Buying logic: one extra inch, every day

Eighty-four thousand four hundred and ninety rupees, twenty-one per cent off a stated Rs. 106,999 — and the pick where this chapter's arithmetic lands most usefully. An RTX 4050 sits a full tier above the RTX 3050 and two above the 2050, it carries DLSS 3 frame generation that the older cards do not, and here it is attached to a Ryzen 7 7535HS with eight cores. Set it beside the Victus chapter: Rs. 81,990 buys a 6 GB RTX 3050 with a six-core i5, Rs. 84,490 buys a 4050 with an eight-core Ryzen 7. Two and a half thousand rupees separates them and the second machine is clearly the better one — a comparison neither product page makes, and one the badge column actively obscures by showing 6% against 21%. This is what we mean when we say the percentage is not information on this shelf. The catch is Acer's service network, which is thinner than HP's or Lenovo's in smaller cities and is a fair reason to pay the Victus premium if you live outside a metro.

• Price: Rs. 84,490 (stated MRP Rs. 106,999)
• Key specification: Ryzen 7 7535HS, 16 GB, 512 GB SSD, RTX 4050, 15.6-inch Full HD
• Discount: 21% off, which is Rs. 22,509
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: Best mid-range GPU value
• Buying logic: Rs. 2,500 for a whole GPU tier

Thirty-seven thousand nine hundred and ninety rupees, thirty-five per cent off a stated Rs. 58,290 — the cheapest laptop in our read and, not coincidentally, the deepest laptop badge in it. Remove the discrete graphics card and the discipline goes with it: the Ryzen 3 7320U here is a four-core mobile chip nobody cross-shops on a benchmark chart, so the MRP is free to float twenty thousand rupees above the price. Judge the machine, then. For browser work, documents, video calls and streaming it is entirely adequate; 8 GB of soldered memory is the real ceiling and it arrives sooner than buyers expect, roughly at the point where you keep twenty tabs and a video call open together. The 512 GB SSD is the pick's quiet strength — most laptops at this price ship 256 GB, and doubling it later is not free. As a student machine, a second household laptop or a work-from-home terminal, Rs. 37,990 is the honest number here. Read the Rs. 58,290 as scenery.

• Price: Rs. 37,990 (stated MRP Rs. 58,290)
• Key specification: Ryzen 3 7320U, 8 GB, 512 GB SSD, integrated AMD graphics, 15.6-inch Full HD
• Discount: 35% off, which is Rs. 20,300
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: Cheapest laptop here
• Buying logic: the chip nobody benchmarks

Fifty-three thousand four hundred and ninety rupees, thirty-one per cent off a stated Rs. 77,898 — and we are seating it directly under the Lenovo because the two machines share a spec sheet. Ryzen 3 7320U, 8 GB of memory, 512 GB SSD, integrated Radeon graphics, 15.6-inch Full HD: identical on every line that affects how the computer behaves. The gap is fifteen thousand five hundred rupees. Some of it is real — HP's service footprint in India is the widest of any laptop brand, the 15s chassis is better built than its price suggests, and the bundle includes MS Office Home 2024 plus a year of Microsoft 365 Basic, which is perhaps Rs. 4,000 of genuine value. The rest is brand and shelf position. We would not pay it: for Rs. 15,500 you could buy the Lenovo and a monitor, or the Lenovo and four years of the same software subscription. What this pick earns its place for is the demonstration — two identical processors, thirty-one and thirty-five per cent, Rs. 15,500 apart. Neither badge mentions the other machine.

• Price: Rs. 53,490 (stated MRP Rs. 77,898)
• Key specification: Ryzen 3 7320U, 8 GB, 512 GB SSD, Radeon graphics — the same chip as the Rs. 37,990 Lenovo
• Discount: 31% off, which is Rs. 24,408
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: The same chip, Rs. 15,500 more
• Buying logic: identical silicon, different shelf

Fifty-five thousand nine hundred and ninety rupees, thirty-two per cent off a stated Rs. 82,890 — the only Arm-based Windows machine in our read, and on paper the best-equipped laptop under Rs. 60,000 here: 16 GB of memory against everything else's 8, a 512 GB SSD, and a 15.3-inch WUXGA panel that is taller than the 16:9 screens around it. The Snapdragon X X1-26-100 is the entry chip of Qualcomm's laptop line, and what it buys is battery life measured in a working day rather than an afternoon, plus a fanless-quiet machine. The gamble is software: Windows on Arm runs x86 applications through emulation, which is now good enough for Office, browsers and Adobe's current releases, and still poor for older specialist software, most VPN clients and anything with a hardware driver. Check your must-have applications before you buy — it takes ten minutes and it is the entire risk. If the list is clean, the 16 GB and the battery make this the most modern-feeling laptop at this price on the shelf.

• Price: Rs. 55,990 (stated MRP Rs. 82,890)
• Key specification: Snapdragon X X1-26-100, 16 GB, 512 GB SSD, Adreno graphics, 15.3-inch WUXGA
• Discount: 32% off, which is Rs. 26,900
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: The Arm gamble
• Buying logic: check your software list first

Fifty-five thousand nine hundred and ninety rupees, twenty-five per cent off a stated Rs. 74,900 — and the same number, to the rupee, as the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 immediately above it. The M1 Air is a 2020 machine still being sold in 2026, which sounds damning until you use one: the M1 chip remains faster than most Rs. 60,000 Windows laptops at everyday work, the build is aluminium where the price bracket is plastic, the battery genuinely runs a working day, and macOS updates will reach it for years yet. The compromises are specific and worth naming. Eight gigabytes of unified memory is tight in 2026 and cannot be changed later; 256 GB of storage is small and also fixed; there are two ports, both USB-C, and no card reader; the 13.3-inch screen is smaller than every other laptop on this page. So the Rs. 55,990 question is really a question about what you do. Heavy multitasking or big local files, take the 16 GB Lenovo. Everything else — writing, browsing, calls, light photo work — the Air is the better computer, and it will still feel like one in 2030.

• Price: Rs. 55,990 (stated MRP Rs. 74,900)
• Key specification: Apple M1, 8 GB, 256 GB SSD, 13.3-inch Retina — same money as the Snapdragon Lenovo
• Discount: 25% off, which is Rs. 18,910
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: Same money, different world
• Buying logic: the same rupee, twice

Nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rupees, fifty-four per cent off a stated Rs. 21,800 — the deepest discount in our entire read, and note where it landed. Not on a laptop, not on a graphics card, but on a monitor: the one computing category buyers rarely research, where the specification that matters most is printed nowhere obvious and where a shopper mostly picks by size and price. That is precisely the shelf where a Rs. 21,800 MRP survives. Judge the panel instead. Twenty-six point nine inches at 1920 x 1080 is a lowish pixel density — text is noticeably softer than on a 24-inch of the same resolution — but it is a VA panel, which means deep blacks and better contrast than the TN screens further down this chapter, and at Rs. 9,999 it is the cheapest way here to put a genuinely large second display on a desk. For spreadsheets, code and video it is excellent value. For photo work, the colour accuracy is not there. Buy it as a big cheap screen, which is what it is, and ignore the Rs. 21,800 entirely.

• Price: Rs. 9,999 (stated MRP Rs. 21,800)
• Key specification: 26.9-inch VA panel, 1920 x 1080 — deepest badge in the read
• Discount: 54% off, which is Rs. 11,801
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: Deepest badge in the read
• Buying logic: nobody benchmarks a monitor

Five thousand one hundred and forty rupees, forty-nine per cent off a stated Rs. 9,999 — the cheapest display on this page and the second-deepest badge in the read, which continues the chapter's pattern precisely. Eighteen and a half inches at 1366 x 768 is not a work screen by any 2026 standard; it is roughly the pixel count of a 2010 laptop, and a spreadsheet on it shows about half the rows a Full HD panel would. What it legitimately is: a shop-counter display, a billing terminal, a CCTV monitor, a second screen for a machine that just needs to show something, or a child's first computer. On that brief, five thousand one hundred and forty rupees is genuinely cheap and the Rs. 9,999 stated MRP is a number this class of panel has not commanded in a decade. What we would not do is buy it as the main screen for real work — the Samsung above is twice the price for four times the usable area, and that is the better rupee for anyone who will sit in front of it daily.

• Price: Rs. 5,140 (stated MRP Rs. 9,999)
• Key specification: 18.5-inch, 1366 x 768 — cheapest display in the read
• Discount: 49% off, which is Rs. 4,859
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: Cheapest screen here
• Buying logic: a terminal screen, honestly priced

Five thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rupees, nineteen per cent off a stated Rs. 7,390. On its own this is an unremarkable machine — an 18.5-inch TN panel at 1366 x 768, 5 ms response, 200 nits, HDMI and VGA, with the HDMI cable actually in the box, which at this price is a real and rare courtesy. Its interest is what sits in the next pick. Reliance Digital lists two Lenovo 18.5-inch HD monitors: this D19-10 at Rs. 5,999, and a D1910 at Rs. 7,720. The model codes differ by a hyphen. The stated specifications differ in one line — the dearer one claims a 100 Hz refresh rate — and the prices differ by one thousand seven hundred and twenty-one rupees. A shopper searching "Lenovo 18.5 monitor" sees both, cannot easily tell them apart, and the badges make it worse: 19% here, 4% there. If you want the cheap Lenovo panel, this is the one to buy, and you should know the other exists before you land on it.

• Price: Rs. 5,999 (stated MRP Rs. 7,390)
• Key specification: 18.5-inch TN, 1366 x 768, 5 ms, 200 nits, HDMI cable in the box
• Discount: 19% off, which is Rs. 1,391
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: The cheaper twin
• Buying logic: mind the hyphen

Seven thousand seven hundred and twenty rupees, four per cent off a stated Rs. 8,000 — the second-shallowest badge in the whole read, on a monitor. Set the two listings side by side and the only stated differences are the model code, the claimed 100 Hz refresh against the D19-10's unstated rate, and one thousand seven hundred and twenty-one rupees. A hundred hertz is a genuine feature; on an 18.5-inch 1366 x 768 panel it is also a feature almost nobody buying an 18.5-inch 1366 x 768 panel is shopping for, because that screen goes on a counter or a spare desk, not into a game. Our reading is that this listing carries the more honest MRP — Rs. 8,000 for a Rs. 7,720 monitor is a real price with no theatre in it — and that the cheaper D19-10 is the better buy for the use these screens actually get. But we are flagging the pair rather than picking a winner, because the useful thing to know is that they both exist, they look identical on a search page, and the difference between them costs about the price of a third monitor at this size.

• Price: Rs. 7,720 (stated MRP Rs. 8,000)
• Key specification: 18.5-inch HD, 5 ms, 100 Hz — Rs. 1,721 over the near-identical D19-10
• Discount: 4% off, which is Rs. 280
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: The Rs. 1,721 hyphen
• Buying logic: two listings, one search result

One lakh seventy-six thousand five hundred and ninety-nine rupees, seven per cent off a stated Rs. 189,900 — the most expensive listing in our fifty-five-item read, and it is a screen. It also closes the chapter's argument neatly. Every other monitor here wears a badge of nineteen to fifty-four per cent because nobody cross-shops a generic panel; this one wears seven, because a Studio Display buyer knows exactly what it costs and has usually decided before entering a shop. Research collapses discount, at any price point, in any category. As a product: 27 inches of 5K at 218 pixels per inch, which is the single best text rendering available on a desk, a genuinely good six-speaker array, a webcam, and a built-in A13 chip driving it. As a purchase: it makes sense almost exclusively next to a Mac, it has no height adjustment at this configuration unless you pay more, and Rs. 176,599 buys three of the Rs. 55,990 laptops on this page. We are seating it as the read's price ceiling and its cleanest proof, not as a recommendation.

• Price: Rs. 176,599 (stated MRP Rs. 189,900)
• Key specification: 27-inch 5K, standard glass, VESA adapter — dearest listing in the read
• Discount: 7% off, which is Rs. 13,301
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: Dearest listing here
• Buying logic: research collapses discount

Twenty-two thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rupees, forty-three per cent off a stated Rs. 40,000 — the deepest tablet badge in our read, and the roundest MRP on this entire page. A stated forty thousand rupees exactly is the sound of a number chosen rather than derived, and no 4 GB tablet has sold near it. What is real: eleven inches, 5G cellular, and a stylus included rather than sold at Rs. 5,000 extra, which is the pick's actual argument. If you want a tablet for handwritten notes in lectures or meetings and you want it to work away from Wi-Fi, this is the only listing in the read that does both, and Rs. 22,999 for that combination is fair. The compromise is memory: 4 GB is the minimum viable figure for Android in 2026 and it will show as apps reloading when you switch between them. Against the Rs. 17,999 Lenovo M11 with 8 GB below, you are paying Rs. 5,000 for the 5G radio and the pen while giving up half the memory. If you will not use the radio, do not pay for it.

• Price: Rs. 22,999 (stated MRP Rs. 40,000)
• Key specification: 11-inch, 4 GB, 128 GB, Wi-Fi + 5G, stylus included
• Discount: 43% off, which is Rs. 17,001
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: Deepest tablet badge
• Buying logic: the pen is the argument

Seventeen thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rupees, forty-two per cent off a stated Rs. 31,000 — and the first of three tablets on this shelf that cost exactly Rs. 17,999. Hold that price constant, as this page keeps doing, and compare what it buys: 8 GB of memory and 128 GB of storage here, 4 GB and 128 GB on the Redmi Pad 2, 8 GB and 128 GB on the OnePlus Pad Go. On the raw specification the Lenovo and the OnePlus are matched and the Redmi is behind, at identical money. What separates the two leaders is software support and screen: the OnePlus has the better panel and a longer update commitment, the Lenovo the more accommodating price history and Lenovo's tablet software has improved markedly. For a household tablet — video, browsing, kids, a bit of reading — the M11 with 8 GB is the one we would take, because memory is the specification that decides how long an Android tablet stays pleasant. Ignore the Rs. 31,000. Compare the three at Rs. 17,999, which is the comparison the shelf refuses to lay out.

• Price: Rs. 17,999 (stated MRP Rs. 31,000)
• Key specification: 11-inch, 8 GB RAM, 128 GB — most memory of the three Rs. 17,999 tablets
• Discount: 42% off, which is Rs. 13,001
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: Best tablet value
• Buying logic: memory decides how long it lasts

Seventeen thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rupees, eighteen per cent off a stated Rs. 21,999 — the same selling price as the two tablets around it, with four gigabytes of memory instead of eight. We are seating it precisely to make that visible, because a shopper scanning a category page sees three eleven-inch tablets at one price and has no reason to suspect that one of them is specified half as well. The Redmi is not a bad tablet — the screen is good, MIUI's tablet build is competent, battery life is strong, and Xiaomi's service network is dense. It is simply the wrong one at this price on this shelf, and we would only choose it over the Lenovo if the 5G-free Wi-Fi version's specific screen or Xiaomi's ecosystem mattered to you. Note the badge for the record: 18% here against 42% on the better-specified Lenovo at the same money. Two tablets, one price, and the deeper discount is on the better machine — which is the opposite of what the percentage column usually implies.

• Price: Rs. 17,999 (stated MRP Rs. 21,999)
• Key specification: 11-inch, 4 GB RAM, 128 GB — same price, half the memory
• Discount: 18% off, which is Rs. 4,000
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: Same price, half the memory
• Buying logic: one price, two specifications

Seventeen thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rupees, ten per cent off a stated Rs. 19,999 — the third tablet at this exact price, and the one whose sticker tells the truth. Two thousand rupees between MRP and selling price, against the Lenovo's thirteen thousand and the Motorola's seventeen. Same shelf, same week, same category. The product is straightforward: 11.35 inches, 8 GB and 128 GB, a good LCD panel with a taller aspect ratio that suits reading, and OxygenOS's tablet build, which is among the better Android tablet skins. Against the Lenovo M11 at the same rupee, this is a genuine coin-flip — slightly larger and better screen here, slightly better price history and wider service reach there — and either is a sound household tablet. The reason it closes the chapter is the MRP. Three tablets at Rs. 17,999 declare Rs. 31,000, Rs. 21,999 and Rs. 19,999, and wear 42%, 18% and 10%. The prices are identical. Only the theatre varies, and the badge is measuring the theatre.

• Price: Rs. 17,999 (stated MRP Rs. 19,999)
• Key specification: 11.35-inch, 8 GB, 128 GB — same price, the read's most honest tablet MRP
• Discount: 10% off, which is Rs. 2,000
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: The honest tablet MRP
• Buying logic: the badge measures the theatre

Three thousand nine hundred and eleven rupees, twenty-one per cent off a stated Rs. 4,974 — the cheapest thing in our entire read, and the printer that costs the most to own. This is a cartridge machine: print, scan, copy and Wi-Fi for under four thousand rupees, with a pair of replacement cartridges running roughly Rs. 1,800 to Rs. 2,200 and yielding a couple of hundred pages between them. Do the arithmetic once. Two cartridge changes and you have spent more on ink than on the printer; four and you have spent more than the Rs. 12,499 ink-tank machine two picks down, which arrives with eight thousand black pages in the box. So the honest advice splits cleanly by volume. If you print a dozen pages a month — a rental agreement, a school form, a boarding pass — this is the correct purchase and the ink-tank machines are a waste of nine thousand rupees. If you print regularly, this is the most expensive printer on the page, and the cheap sticker is the trap. Nothing here is dishonest; it is just an arithmetic the listing never shows you.

• Price: Rs. 3,911 (stated MRP Rs. 4,974)
• Key specification: Cartridge inkjet all-in-one, 8 PPM black / 4 PPM colour — cheapest item in the read
• Discount: 21% off, which is Rs. 1,063
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: Cheapest item in the read
• Buying logic: cheap to buy, dear to feed

Twelve thousand four hundred and ninety-nine rupees, twenty-two per cent off a stated Rs. 15,980 — and the best cost per page anywhere in this read. The included ink is the specification that matters and it is the one buyers skip: eight thousand black pages and six thousand colour pages come in the box, which on the cartridge machine above would cost roughly forty thousand rupees to buy. Reduced to a number, this printer's first eight thousand black pages cost Rs. 1.56 each including the hardware, and refill bottles thereafter run about thirty paise a page. The listing also bundles an extra black bottle and a year of extended warranty with PHA coverage. Ink tanks have one real weakness — they dislike sitting unused, because the print head can clog if the machine goes months between jobs — so this is a printer for a household or small office that prints something most weeks, not for the drawer. If that describes you, this is the page's clearest money saved, and the pick immediately below shows exactly how easily you could pay more for less.

• Price: Rs. 12,499 (stated MRP Rs. 15,980)
• Key specification: Ink tank all-in-one, 8,000 black and 6,000 colour pages included
• Discount: 22% off, which is Rs. 3,481
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: Best cost per page
• Buying logic: Rs. 1.56 a page, hardware included

Thirteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rupees, twenty-one per cent off a stated Rs. 17,828 — one thousand five hundred rupees more than the Smart Tank 520 above, and it arrives with four thousand black pages instead of eight thousand. Both listings state their yields plainly; the two product pages simply never appear together, and the badges — 22% and 21% — are close enough that nothing in the percentage column suggests a difference exists. What the extra Rs. 1,500 does buy is a slightly newer machine with a better control panel and, on HP's spec sheets, faster wireless setup. What it costs you is roughly four thousand black pages, or about Rs. 1,200 of refill ink, which very nearly cancels the hardware difference and then keeps going. We would buy the 520. We are seating the 585 because the pair is the printer-aisle version of everything else on this page: the specification that determines the real cost is stated in the title, ignored by the badge, and decisive. Read the yield before the price, and read the price before the percentage.

• Price: Rs. 13,999 (stated MRP Rs. 17,828)
• Key specification: Ink tank all-in-one, 4,000 black and 6,000 colour pages — Rs. 1,500 more, half the black yield
• Discount: 21% off, which is Rs. 3,829
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: Rs. 1,500 more, half the ink
• Buying logic: read the yield, not the badge

Eighteen thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine rupees, nine per cent off a stated Rs. 20,734 — the smallest printer badge in our read and a fitting place to end the page. One thousand nine hundred and thirty-five rupees between MRP and price, on a shelf where a tablet declared Rs. 40,000 for a Rs. 22,999 machine and a monitor declared Rs. 21,800 for a Rs. 9,999 one. The 675 is HP's business-leaning ink tank: faster duty cycle, an automatic document feeder for scanning multi-page documents, and the same refillable economics as the Smart Tanks. Whether it is worth Rs. 6,300 over the Smart Tank 520 depends entirely on whether you scan stacks of paper — if you run a small office that processes forms, the document feeder pays for itself in an afternoon; if you print school projects, it does not. Either way, note what its price is doing. A shallow badge on this page has meant, without exception, a listing whose seller expects you to know what the thing costs. That is the whole page in one number, and it is 9%.

• Price: Rs. 18,799 (stated MRP Rs. 20,734)
• Key specification: Ink tank all-in-one — the shallowest printer badge in the read
• Discount: 9% off, which is Rs. 1,935
• Rating: none published — no listing in our 55-item read carried a rating with a review count
• Role: The most honest printer sticker
• Buying logic: the sticker tells the truth