How to Buy Laptop

How to Buy Laptop

               Home users are turning to the laptops or notebooks are their PC. Before you buy a laptop for your home of office use it is important that you consider the few basic things that affect on your decision making process. There are different types of the laptops such as for the home lusers, frequent flyers, business users, students, gamers and for performing the office tasks. The portability and the great performance of the notebook has made them essential for our daily lives.

      

              The laptops are the wonderful replacement of the desktop computers due to their portability, mobility, light weight, wireless connectivity and other great features. A notebook has all the features and components that a desktop computer has like the processor, hard disk, RAM, graphic card, LAN card, USB port, removable Medias and wireless connectivity.

      

             The most popular manufacturers of the laptop are Dell, Compaq, HP, Sony, Toshiba, Lenovo, Accer, Gateway, IBM and Apple. The following tips will help you to make your laptop decision making process easy for you.

Size

             If you do a lot of traveling or you are frequent flyer then you need to buy a thin and ultra portable laptop. The average size of the traveling laptop ranges between 8 to 15 pounds. If you want laptop for your performing home usage of office work then you need a laptop with wider screen and with all the features of the desktop computer.

Processor

             A processor is a brain of the laptop or a desktop computer. Intel Core 2 Duo is the latest and the fastest processor by the Intel Corporation. It provides the energy-efficient performance which enables you to do multiple tasks at a time. Intel Core 2 Duo is a good choice for the processor of your laptop. It provides the clock speed up to 2.60GHz.

Graphics

                If you require the extra multiple performance for playing games, watching movies and photo/video editing then ATTs new Mobility Radeon 9200 and 9600 provides the best graphics solutions for the laptops.

Memory

              RAM or physical memory is an important component inside a PC or a laptop comter. The amount of the RAM is dependent on the tasks that you will perform on the Laptop. Most of the laptops come with the 512MB of RAM. But for greater performance you need at least 1GB or RAM.

Hard Drive

       

              You need to consider 100 GB or the hard disk as a minimum size if you want to use laptop for business tasks or playing games. For home usage you need to have at least 50 GB or hard disk space.

LCD Viewing Screens

           LCD screens are used for display. Go for 15 inches screen and if you want greater performance then you can also opt for the 16 and 17 inches screen with 1680x1050 resolutions.

Wireless Connectivity

           Make sure that your laptop has built-in wireless connectivity features by using the most powerful wireless technology standard 802.11g.

Optical Drives

           Most of the new laptop computers come with the Combo DVD/CD-RW optical drives. The multi format drives are capable of writing and rewriting both CDs and DVDs.

Warranty

          One of the most important things in your laptop buying decision is to check the warranty of your laptop. Make sure that your laptop warranted for at least 1 year and you are getting free service and support during this time.

Battery

       Battery time is another important factor to check before buying a notebook. 3-4 hours backup is good. Some laptops allow you to replace the optical drives with the second battery to enhance the battery run time.