The Infinix Y4 Max is an impressive contender in India’s budget laptop market, especially for those with a budget under Rs 35,000. It boasts a solid build quality, a high-quality display, a responsive keyboard, and a comprehensive range of I/O ports. Equipped with an Intel Core i3-1315U CPU, 16GB LPDDR4X RAM, and a 512GB SSD, it handles everyday tasks efficiently, though it’s less suited for high-end gaming or intensive video editing. The non-upgradable RAM is a slight limitation, but overall, the Y4 Max offers excellent value for money. It’s an ideal choice for work, education, or general home use, making it a top recommendation in its price range.
Infinix is a brand which is well on its way to capturing the budget laptop segment in India and this Infinix Y4 Max Review proves the same. The laptop’s base variant, which I tested and reviewed, is packed with so many good things that it is really surprising that you only need Rs 33,999 to buy one. The laptop’s specifications aren’t impossible in this price segment but it is all the other stuff like – build quality, I/O ports, keyboard, and display quality – that take home a ton of praise for the Infinix Y4 Max laptop, praise from me that is. So without wasting any more time, here’s everything you need to know about the Infinix Y4 Max and whether it is a good laptop or not and who it is actually for.
The Infinix Y4 Max’s build quality is one of the budget laptop’s main highlights. It comes with an aluminium alloy chassis which is noteworthy. However, if you try and press the deck area, you will feel that it has some flex but it is very well contained and won’t even announce its presence if you’re deliberately pressing the deck area. It seems that the deck isn’t made out of metal but that’s alright because the Y4 Max is a fairly budget-oriented laptop and the plastic used also feels to be of high quality.
The Y4 Max’s display hinge is solid and tight and you can’t lift the lid with just a single hand. Getting this part right isn’t easy, especially if you have a 16-inch metal top lid but I’d still prefer to use two hands to open the display instead of having a loose hinge. Infinix Y4 Max sits on four rubber legs and a group of 10 easy-to-remove screws that hold up the back plate.
Moving onto the keyboard it is something which Inifnix has improved upon quite a bit since several past generations. Therefore, the Y4 Max’s keyboard, despite being part of a budget laptop, is better than many of its expensive cousins. For instance, the Infinix Y4 Max’s keyboard easily beats out the one on the Zerobook Ultra, which costs almost twice as much. Even the trackpad is of a superior quality. It is big, smooth to touch and easy to click. In short, pretty great.
The Input-output port selection is also very decent featuring an HDMI 1.4, two USB Type-A ports, one Thunderbolt 4 Type-C port, a normal Type-C port, a 3.5mm jack slot and an SD card slot as well. The I/O feels complete and has all the essential ports one can expect in a budget Windows laptop.
The Y4 Max’s display is another thing that Inifnix over-delivers on this laptop. Officially, the on-paper display brightness of Infinix Y4 Max is 300 nits. But in my testing, the peak SDR brightness came out to be 373 nits, which is a delightful surprise. However, the sRGB colour space coverage claims are a bit off. Y4 Max claims 83% sRGB colour space coverage. In reality though, the sRGB colour space coverage is 80%. Lastly, the Y4 Max’s display has 60.8% DCI-P3 coverage as well.
As I mentioned before, the screen is a 16-inch unit with a 16:10 aspect ratio and this combination makes the display look quite massive. You will also find the Y4 Max’s screen to have good viewing angles and an anti-glare coating too. The screen’s refresh rate is only limited to 60Hz and I think it is appropriate at this price point.
The speakers on the other hand are loud. You can easily hear them even in a crowded office room. But the bass is almost non-existent. Infinix did make use of more room available in the 16-inch laptop with louder speakers but wasn’t able to provide them with the necessary “oomph.” In summary, good enough speakers but not for music enthusiasts.
I have the Intel Core i3-1315U CPU variant of the Infinix Y4 Max and I think this is the one a lot of people are especially going to gravitate towards. Mainly because the immediate next Intel 13th Gen Core i5 variant of this laptop costs Rs 7000 more. For that price, you are only getting an upgraded CPU meanwhile the rest of the specs remain identical. Thus, easily making the Core i3 variant potentially the most value-for-money one and here’s how it performs.
In Cinebench R23, the Infinix Y4 Max scored 4828 and 1649 points in multi-core and single-core tests respectively. Meanwhile, in the Cinebench R23 throttle test, the Y4 Max lost around 200 points, which, in my experience, indicates that the laptop isn’t losing much performance under sustained load. Usually, the point difference between a normal run and a throttle run should be around 300-500 points to be considered normal. The best thing is that the Intel Core i3-1315U can easily stretch its legs and continue to run at its default TDP of 15W continuously for 30 minutes.
Next up is Geekbench 6 and in that test the laptop scored 2305 and 7475 points in single and multicore runs respectively. From these two tests, it is evident that the Y4 Max’s single-core performance is great while its multi-core performance is decent. And that’s what we see in real-world usage. The laptop is great at handling multiple Chrome tabs, a bit of graphic design in Canva and 4K video streaming. Anything more than that like running AAA games or video editing and the laptops will begin to struggle.
The 512GB SSD onboard is the same that’s present across all the variants and it has decent read and write speed. Specifically, it has 3472.04 and 2546.58 MB/s read and write speed respectively. To put it into perspective, the SSD boots up the Y4 Max in 13 seconds, which is pretty fast.
The onboard 16GB LPDDR4X RAM operates at a clock speed of 4567MHz, making it very fast and the highest speed supported by the Core i3-1315U processor, for LPDDR4X RAM type. Although this LPDDR4X format offers significant advantages in terms of RAM speed, it falls short in terms of upgradeability. This limitation stems from the fact that LPDDR4X RAM is soldered directly onto the motherboard, making it impossible to upgrade in the future.
The Infinix Y4 Max checks so many boxes that it is going to become my default recommendation for laptops under Rs 35,000, for a few months at least. It nails down the important basics like good build quality, a great display, and a healthy I/O so well that legacy brands need to take note of it. On top of that, the sweet combination of 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD from the base variant further boosts the value quotient of an already affordable Windows laptop. In many places, the laptop delivers more than expected while in others it performs exactly how its specifications suggest but it doesn’t disappoint you in any major way. Infinix Y4 Max is easily the best laptop under Rs 35,000 for anyone looking for an office/work laptop or a Windows PC for home/education purposes.
