How to pick your perfect laptop

I always cringe when I see people buying laptops in high street stores and know that they are wasting so much money on a laptop with features they will never use. It is pitiful to see sales representatives trying to sell you the most expensive laptop you are keen to purchase just to make the heftiest commission they can. Perhaps that's a failure in capitalism but it certainly doesn't mean that you need to fall for their tricks every time.

Selecting the perfect laptop for your needs need not be hard provided you are aware of some of the basic factors effecting laptop efficiency. To start with, let's discuss various brands of laptops available. You might notice yourself being sold a Sony laptop over an Acer laptop and end up paying hundreds extra for the Sony even if the laptop's specifications are almost similar. Does this mean you have gotten a faster or more reliable laptop but going for the premium brand? Does it imply that by going with the finest brand you have gotten a faster and more dependable laptop? Unluckily no, congratulations you just spent a few hundred on a brand name. In the laptop world, the components that make up a laptop are made by a hand full of suppliers which are then bought by your laptop brands such as Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Sony etc. and put together only to add a different badge on the case. So next time you are looking to purchase a fresh laptop overlook the brands altogether. Instead, focus on the requirements of the laptop and if possible try them in the shop before purchasing.

The next biggest downfall for laptop buyers is either buying a laptop that is way too powerful for their needs or lacking in performance stopping them from using the laptop for what they intended. For those of you looking only to use your laptop for surfing the internet, chatting with pals, emails, office programs, and watching videos, the low-priced laptops on the market will have more then enough power for these needs. Forget about the processor card speed or graphics card performance and plainly choose a good looking laptop which has sufficient space for fulfilling your requirements. For those of you looking to play games on your laptop be prepared to shell out a fortune for your laptop. The graphic card is the only vital component for a gaming laptop. Customarily laptops have awful graphics as manufacturers try to cut expenses so any gaming laptop will set you back at least £500 or $700. If you want to play games you might as well choose the laptop only on the graphics card that it has. Get the laptop with the most potent graphic card in your budget and stop thinking about the rest of the requirements as if the graphics card is powerful the rest of the system will be too. The easiest way to make sure the graphics card is powerful is to search the internet for reviews of the specific card that a laptop has as this will easily tell you kind of performance levels to expect in games.

My last word of warning will be to watch out for the fashionable tiny notebooks that are 10 inches or smaller. Due to the small size of keyboard, typing on these is extremely hard. Several do not have a Microsoft Windows operating system you might be used to and therefore appear much economical but a lot less practical as a result. Lastly, look out for their hard drive size as the inexpensive models have a USB memory stick with 2 - 8 GB space attached to it instead of a hard drive which is inadequate for a normal user. Personally their considerably lower performance and identical price tag to cheap full sized laptops leaves me perplexed as to why anyone would buy them apart from for their tiny size making them very portable. It seems to me that these have become more of a fashion statement then practical laptops.


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