Twenty-one MacBooks at exactly 7 per cent off; Windows laptops from 1 per cent to 62. Twenty-three picks from 51 Croma listings.
We pulled 51 laptop listings from Croma's own product data on August 9, 2026 and grouped them by manufacturer. Apple's twenty-two rows are a straight line - twenty-one at exactly 7 per cent off, one at 3 - because Apple controls the retail price and the retailer takes a fixed slice. The Windows half of the same shelf runs from 1 per cent to 62, with two Asus TUF A15 rows showing 45 and 4. The only comparison worth making runs across the two halves, on memory and storage, and the discount column hides it entirely.
Every price below was pulled from Croma on August 9, 2026 and checked against the MRP on the listing. Stack them with the live codes on our Croma coupons page, which the deals desk re-verifies daily.
Twenty-one of Apple's twenty-two listings carry exactly the same badge, from a Rs. 83,490 machine to a Rs. 2,78,990 one. The twenty-second is the dearest laptop on the shelf, at 3 per cent.
Rs. 1,39,490 off a stated Rs. 1,49,900 - 7% off, exactly like twenty other Apple rows.
Why it earned its spot The cheapest M5 Air, at the flat 7 per cent Apple applies to almost everything here.
Rs. 83,490 off a stated Rs. 89,900 - 7% off, Apple's cheapest row in the read.
Why it earned its spot Apple's lowest price on this shelf, and the only 8GB Mac in the read.
Rs. 1,72,990 off a stated Rs. 1,85,900 - 7% off. Rs. 33,500 more than the 512GB Air.
Why it earned its spot Half a terabyte of extra storage costs thirty-three and a half thousand rupees.
Rs. 1,67,490 off a stated Rs. 1,79,900 - 7% off. Rs. 28,000 above the 13-inch.
Why it earned its spot The bigger Air, at twenty-eight thousand rupees over the smaller one.
Rs. 2,45,490 off a stated Rs. 2,63,900 - 7% off, Rs. 18,410 in money.
Why it earned its spot Fifty thousand rupees more than the Air with the same memory and storage.
Rs. 2,78,990 off a stated Rs. 2,99,900 - 7% off, Rs. 20,910 in money.
Why it earned its spot The step from M5 to M5 Pro costs thirty-three and a half thousand rupees.
Rs. 4,18,990 off a stated Rs. 4,31,900 - 3% off, the only Apple row here not at 7%.
Why it earned its spot The most expensive laptop on the shelf, and the only Mac not discounted 7 per cent.
The largest badge in the read claims Rs. 1,84,990 for a Rs. 70,990 thin-and-light. The prices in this chapter are real; the claims behind them are not.
Rs. 70,990 off a stated Rs. 1,84,990 - 62% off, Rs. 1,14,000 of claimed saving.
Why it earned its spot The biggest discount on the shelf, against the biggest claim on the shelf.
Rs. 82,490 off a stated Rs. 1,54,920 - 47% off, Rs. 72,430 claimed.
Why it earned its spot The entry point to a gaming laptop on this shelf, at 47 per cent off.
Rs. 72,990 off a stated Rs. 1,31,990 - 45% off, Rs. 59,000 claimed.
Why it earned its spot Two thousand rupees above the shelf's deepest-badge laptop, with a gaming chip.
Rs. 91,490 off a stated Rs. 1,46,790 - 38% off, Rs. 55,300 claimed.
Why it earned its spot Lenovo's mid gaming rung, and the memory Apple charges Rs. 22,500 for.
Rs. 50,990 off a stated Rs. 77,018 - 34% off, the lowest price of 51 listings.
Why it earned its spot The cheapest laptop here, at 8GB and 512GB.
Rs. 1,46,590 buys 24GB and a terabyte here. The same memory and storage in chapter one costs Rs. 1,95,490.
Rs. 1,46,590 off a stated Rs. 2,41,251 - 39% off, Rs. 94,661 of claimed saving.
Why it earned its spot Twenty-four gigabytes and a terabyte, for less than a mid-range MacBook Air.
Rs. 1,27,990 off a stated Rs. 1,97,290 - 35% off, Rs. 69,300 claimed.
Why it earned its spot Lenovo's i7 gaming machine, thirty-five per cent off a claim worth Rs. 69,300.
Rs. 67,990 off a stated Rs. 99,999 - 32% off.
Why it earned its spot Sixteen gigabytes at sixty-eight thousand rupees, without a gaming chassis.
Rs. 1,87,990 off a stated Rs. 2,72,381 - 31% off, Rs. 84,391 claimed.
Why it earned its spot The top of the Windows range here, at nearly two lakh rupees.
Rs. 86,990 off a stated Rs. 1,07,199 - 19% off, on a 4.0 from a single rating.
Why it earned its spot The shelf's entire customer evidence is two votes, and this is one of them.
From 16 per cent down to 1 - including one Asus TUF A15 at 4 per cent while another TUF A15 in the same read shows 45.
Rs. 1,52,990 off a stated Rs. 1,81,890 - 16% off.
Why it earned its spot Lenovo's premium ultraportable, at a quarter of its own deepest badge.
Rs. 63,990 off a stated Rs. 73,990 - 14% off.
Why it earned its spot A ten-thousand-rupee gap between price and claim, where others print a lakh.
Rs. 1,31,990 off a stated Rs. 1,53,588 - 14% off.
Why it earned its spot Samsung's only listing here, and the cheapest premium touchscreen on the shelf.
Rs. 85,990 off a stated Rs. 89,990 - 4% off, where another TUF A15 here shows 45%.
Why it earned its spot One product family, two listings, forty-one points of badge apart.
Rs. 56,990 off a stated Rs. 58,101 - 2% off, a Rs. 1,111 gap.
Why it earned its spot Eleven hundred rupees of discount, from the brand that prints 47 per cent elsewhere.
Rs. 1,61,990 off a stated Rs. 1,62,995 - 1% off, a Rs. 1,005 gap.
Why it earned its spot A thousand rupees off a Rs. 1.62 lakh laptop - the shelf's most honest claim.
First: ignore the discount column on Apple entirely - the badge is a fixed 7 per cent on almost every model, so the only decision is the configuration. Second: ignore it on Windows too, because the same TUF A15 family appears here at 45 per cent and 4, and Lenovo spans 9 to 62 across nine rows. Third: compare memory and storage across the two halves of the shelf before you compare anything else, since Apple's upgrades are soldered and priced at Rs. 22,500 for 8GB while Windows machines at half the price ship 16GB. Fourth: accept that this shelf has no customer evidence - 49 of 51 listings carry no rating - so buy on specification, brand record and warranty, the same conclusion this series reached on Croma's tablet shelf and on Reliance Digital's Apple aisle. Fifth: check bank-card offers and exchange bonuses at checkout, which on a Rs. 1.5 lakh machine routinely move more money than any badge on this page.
| Product | Sale price | MRP | Discount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple MacBook Air (13.6 inch, M5, 16GB, 512GB, macOS Tahoe, Midnight) | Rs. 139,490 | Rs. 149,900 | 7% |
| Apple MacBook Neo (13 inch, A18 Pro, 8GB, 512GB, macOS, Silver) | Rs. 83,490 | Rs. 89,900 | 7% |
| Apple MacBook Air (13.6 inch, M5, 16GB, 1TB, macOS Tahoe, Silver) | Rs. 172,990 | Rs. 185,900 | 7% |
| Apple MacBook Air (15.3 inch, M5, 16GB, 512GB, macOS Tahoe, Starlight) | Rs. 167,490 | Rs. 179,900 | 7% |
| Apple MacBook Pro (14.2 inch, M5, 24GB, 1TB, macOS Tahoe, Space Black) | Rs. 245,490 | Rs. 263,900 | 7% |
| Apple MacBook Pro (14.2 inch, M5 Pro, 24GB, 1TB, macOS Tahoe, Space Black) | Rs. 278,990 | Rs. 299,900 | 7% |
| Apple MacBook Pro (16.2 inch, M5 Pro, 48GB, 1TB, macOS Tahoe, Space Black) | Rs. 418,990 | Rs. 431,900 | 3% |
| Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 15IRH10 Intel Core i5 Thin & Light (16GB, 512GB SSD, Windo | Rs. 70,990 | Rs. 184,990 | 62% |
| HP Victus 15-fa2197TX Intel Core i5 13th Gen Gaming Laptop (16GB, 512GB SSD, Win | Rs. 82,490 | Rs. 154,920 | 47% |
| Asus TUF A15 AMD Ryzen 7 170 Gaming Laptop (16GB, 512GB SSD, Windows 11 Home, 4G | Rs. 72,990 | Rs. 131,990 | 45% |
| Lenovo LOQ 15ARP10E AMD Ryzen 5 Gaming Laptop (16GB, 512GB SSD, Windows 11 Home, | Rs. 91,490 | Rs. 146,790 | 38% |
| DELL DC 15250 Intel Core 3 Thin & Light Laptop (8GB, 512GB SSD, Windows 11, 15.6 | Rs. 50,990 | Rs. 77,018 | 34% |
| HP HyperX OMEN 15-gb0038AX AMD Ryzen 7 Gaming Laptop (24GB, 1TB SSD, Windows 11 | Rs. 146,590 | Rs. 241,251 | 39% |
| Lenovo LOQ 15IRX10 Intel Core i7 13th Gen Gaming Laptop (16GB, 1TB SSD, Windows | Rs. 127,990 | Rs. 197,290 | 35% |
| Acer Aspire 14 Intel Core 5 210H 14th Gen Thin and Light Laptop (16GB, 512GB SSD | Rs. 67,990 | Rs. 99,999 | 32% |
| HP HyperX OMEN 15-ga0005TX Intel Core i7 14th Gen Gaming Laptop (24GB, 1TB SSD, | Rs. 187,990 | Rs. 272,381 | 31% |
| DELL G15-5530 Intel Core i5 13th Gen Gaming Laptop with RGB Keyboard(16GB, 512GB | Rs. 86,990 | Rs. 107,199 | 19% |
| Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 14ILL10 Intel Core Ultra 7 258V Thin & Light Laptop (32GB, 1T | Rs. 152,990 | Rs. 181,890 | 16% |
| ASUS Vivobook 15 X1504VAP-BQ224WS Intel Core 5 120U Thin & Light Laptop (16GB RA | Rs. 63,990 | Rs. 73,990 | 14% |
| SAMSUNG Galaxy Book5 Pro Intel Core Ultra 5 Touchscreen Thin & Light Laptop (16G | Rs. 131,990 | Rs. 153,588 | 14% |
| ASUS TUF A15 FA506NCG-HN251WS AMD Ryzen 7 Gaming Laptop (16GB, 1TB SSD, Windows | Rs. 85,990 | Rs. 89,990 | 4% |
| HP 15-fd0623TU Intel Core i3 13th Gen Laptop (8GB, 512GB SSD, Windows 11 Home, 1 | Rs. 56,990 | Rs. 58,101 | 2% |
| HP OMEN 16-ap0165AX AMD Ryzen AI 7 Gaming Laptop (24GB, 1TB SSD, Windows 11 Home | Rs. 161,990 | Rs. 162,995 | 1% |
That is what produced this page. Twenty-one of Apple's twenty-two listings are discounted exactly 7 per cent, across a range from Rs. 83,490 to Rs. 2,78,990, and the twenty-second - the dearest laptop on the shelf at Rs. 4,18,990 - carries 3. That is a flat rate applied to a price the manufacturer controls. On the Windows side the same shelf runs from 1 per cent to 62, with HP alone printing 1, 2, 19, 25, 30, 31, 34, 36, 39 and 47, and Lenovo 9 to 62. One of those columns is a constant and the other is noise; neither ranks anything.
The deepest badge in this read, 62 per cent, rests on a claim that a Core i5 thin-and-light with 16GB once sold for Rs. 1,84,990. It now sells for Rs. 70,990, and the claimed saving of Rs. 1,14,000 is larger than most complete laptops on this shelf. At the other end, a Rs. 1,61,990 OMEN claims Rs. 1,62,995 - a gap of Rs. 1,005. Because those two numbers cannot be compared as percentages, every card here prints the rupee price first, the rupee gap second and the badge last, and says where a claim is not credible.
It is the only comparison on this page that changes a decision. Apple charges Rs. 22,500 to go from 16GB to 24GB of unified memory and Rs. 33,500 to go from 512GB to 1TB, both unupgradeable later. On the same shelf, a Rs. 1,46,590 HP OMEN ships 24GB and a terabyte, and a Rs. 91,490 Lenovo LOQ ships 16GB as standard. Those are not equivalent machines - battery life, weight, thermals and software all differ - but the money is directly comparable, and the discount column obscures it completely.
Forty-nine of the 51 listings in this read publish no rating at all. The two that do carry one vote each - a 4.0 on a Dell gaming laptop and a 5.0 on a MacBook Air. That is the entire evidential base for a category spanning Rs. 50,990 to Rs. 4,18,990. No rating pill appears anywhere on this page, because there is nothing to put in one. Every recommendation here rests on published specifications and price arithmetic, and nothing on this page was benchmarked, opened, timed or used by us.
Because Apple controls its retail pricing in India and authorised sellers take a fixed slice off the stated list price rather than setting their own. In our August 9, 2026 read of 51 Croma laptop listings, twenty-one of Apple's twenty-two rows carried exactly 7 per cent off - from a Rs. 83,490 MacBook Neo to a Rs. 2,78,990 MacBook Pro - and the only exception was the dearest laptop on the shelf, a Rs. 4,18,990 16-inch Pro at 3 per cent. In rupees that flat rate ranges from Rs. 6,410 to Rs. 20,910. It means the badge tells you nothing about which Mac to buy; only the configuration does.
The prices are real; the claimed savings frequently are not. The deepest badge in our read was 62 per cent on a Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 selling at Rs. 70,990 against a stated Rs. 1,84,990 - a claimed saving of Rs. 1,14,000 on a Core i5 thin-and-light that has not sold at that price in the Indian market. In the same read, two Asus TUF A15 listings showed 45 per cent and 4 per cent, and HP's thirteen rows spanned 1 to 47. Compare the rupee prices and the specifications across listings instead; the discount column on this shelf is a property of the listing, not the machine.
Rs. 22,500 for eight more gigabytes of unified memory and Rs. 33,500 for another 512GB of storage, on the same 7 per cent badge as everything else. The 13.6-inch MacBook Air M5 with 16GB/512GB is Rs. 1,39,490, the 16GB/1TB is Rs. 1,72,990 and the 24GB/1TB is Rs. 1,95,490. Both upgrades are soldered and cannot be added later, which is the argument for buying them now. For context, a Rs. 1,46,590 HP OMEN on the same shelf ships 24GB and a terabyte as standard, and a Rs. 91,490 Lenovo LOQ ships 16GB.
A Dell DC 15250 with a Core 3 processor, 8GB and 512GB at Rs. 50,990 is the floor of the read. For Rs. 13,000 more, an Asus Vivobook 15 at Rs. 63,990 doubles the memory to 16GB, and at Rs. 67,990 an Acer Aspire 14 does the same in a smaller chassis. If gaming or GPU work is the point, the cheapest discrete-graphics machine here is an Asus TUF A15 with a Ryzen 7 at Rs. 72,990, with an HP Victus at Rs. 82,490 just above it. Sixteen gigabytes of memory is the specification worth paying for at this end - it is what decides how the machine feels in its second and third year.
Almost none. Forty-nine of the 51 listings in our August 9, 2026 read published no rating or review count at all, and the two that did carried exactly one vote each - a 4.0 on a Dell G15 gaming laptop and a 5.0 on a MacBook Air. That is the entire customer evidence base for a shelf spanning Rs. 50,990 to Rs. 4,18,990. In practice it means a laptop purchase here has to be made on published specifications, the manufacturer's service record and the warranty terms, and that reading reviews elsewhere before buying is not optional. We have attached no rating pill to any card on this page.






















