Apple MacBook Air 13-inch M3 (8GB Unified Memory, 256GB SSD) vs Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 5 AMD Ryzen 7 7730U Business Laptop
What separates them
These two differ on 12 recorded specifications. The Apple MacBook Air 13-inch M3 (8GB Unified Memory, 256GB SSD) is ₹30,910 dearer. They are different kinds of product — laptop against business laptop — so read the table as two spec sheets rather than a like-for-like.
Apple MacBook Air 13-inch M3 (8GB Unified Memory, 256GB SSD) vs Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 5 AMD Ryzen 7 7730U Business Laptop
Apple
Apple MacBook Air 13-inch M3 (8GB Unified Memory, 256GB SSD)
₹99,900
The MacBook Air 13 M3 is silent, bright at 500 nits, and lasts around 15 hours on light work. The base configuration's two real limits are a soldered 8 GB of memory with no upgrade path, and a single-chip 256 GB SSD that is slower than the 512 GB option.
Full details →Lenovo
Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 5 AMD Ryzen 7 7730U Business Laptop
₹68,990
The ThinkPad E14 Gen 5 is built for people who type all day: its keyboard is among the best on any laptop, and the 57 Wh battery lasts a working day. The Ryzen 7 7730U is efficient rather than fast, well suited to office work but not to sustained rendering.
Full details →Who the Apple MacBook Air 13-inch M3 is for
Buy it if: Writers, students and developers wanting a silent, genuinely portable machine with excellent battery life and a bright display.
Avoid it if: Anyone doing long video exports, running virtual machines, or who expects to need more than 8 GB — the memory cannot be upgraded later.
Who the Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 5 AMD Ryzen 7 7730U Business Laptop is for
Buy it if: Office and business users who type heavily, value a durable keyboard and TrackPoint, and want serviceable hardware.
Avoid it if: Anyone needing discrete graphics or sustained high-performance compute — this is a 15 W efficiency part.
Specifications, side by side
12 of 13 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | Apple MacBook Air 13-inch M3 | Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 5 AMD Ryzen 7 7730U Business Laptop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | ₹99,900 | ₹68,990 |
| Battery | 52.6 Wh | 57 Wh |
| Brightness | 500 nits sustained full-screen | 300 nits sustained full-screen |
| Display size | 13.6 in | 14 in |
| Form factor | 13.6-inch laptop | 14-inch business laptop |
| Memory | 8 GB unified, soldered | 16 GB DDR4-3200 |
| Panel type | IPS Liquid Retina | IPS, anti-glare, 16:10 |
| Ports | 2x Thunderbolt 3, MagSafe 3, 3.5 mm | 2x USB-C, 2x USB-A, HDMI 2.1, RJ-45, 3.5 mm |
| Processor | Apple M3, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU | AMD Ryzen 7 7730U, 8 cores / 16 threads |
| Storage | 256 GB SSD, single NAND chip | 512 GB NVMe SSD |
| Sustained TDP | 20 W | 15 W |
| Warranty | 1 year Apple limited warranty | 1 year onsite |
| Weight | 1.24 kg | 1.53 kg |
| Refresh rate | 60 Hz | 60 Hz |
Every row is a figure one or both products record. A blank is a figure the catalogue does not hold, not a zero.
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