Laptop Buying tips
With enough technical information around, selecting a laptop
has become easier off late. However, some folks are still found to be struggling
to choose an exact one they should go for taking into consideration the
number of brands, configuration, designs, material available. This brief
criteria as follows is for that set of people.
Selecting your Budget:
Fixing a budget you would want to spend on your latest laptop would be the
first thing you would want to do when going for one.
Selcting a Brand:
With these many brands available for Laptop, one is often confused as to which
one they should go for. This requires some homework
before zeroing on one of the brands. Based on your budget , you can shortlist
the brands - the economy brands, the moderate or the premium ones.
Consulting friends who have had a practical experience with using the notebook
could turh out to be real
worthy. However, do not restrict yourselvesto just one or two people. Have enough
recommendations about a particular brand before you choose
to buy that. The next thing would be to skim through the reviews available online
at a number of sites but remember to keep yourself restricted
to good quality and authentic sources or it could drag you to selecting a wrong
choice. However, you need to check through the criterias as below
before you decide upon one brand.
Selecting a Processor:
Processor is one most important thing when it comes to selecting. List the
applications that you would want to run on your laptop. Different users
have different applications that they run on their system depending on their
profile - student, gamer, professional, animator, graphic artist,
technist or so. Though a dual core processor is enough to manage most of the
basic applications, a majority of folks prefer atleast a core 2 duo for
better performance if there budget permits. High end users like hardcore gamers,
animators and graphic artist are always recommended to go for a
processor ranging from core 2 duo with high speed to the ones with core2quad,
core2extreme etc. Some technist require some specialised industrial
application on their laptop computer. People like those are recommended to carefully
chose their processor and other components based on the weight
of their software. Processor speed is the other thing that needs to be considered
when selecting a laptop. Processor speed starts from 1.6, 1.8, 2.0 and so on.
Processors are mainly available in two brands - Intel or AMD. Though Intel dominates
the processor market, AMD is slowly seeming to be catching
though. If you are planning to go for an AMD Processor, it is well suggested
that you get advice from people who have already used who could help
in suggesting the appropriate AMD Processor.
Selecting a Chipset:
A motherboard is a platform where all your components are fixed and is made
of so called chipset. Chipset forms an integral part of the system hence.
However, selecting all other components is likely to give you the appropriate
motherboard.
Selecting memory:
Again based on your application an apropriate memory or RAM could be selected
ranging from 1 GB to 4 GB. However there are also notebooks
available with 6GB memory or so. RAM is directly associated with the speed in
basic terms of computing though a variety of other factors are
resposible too. RAM can however be upgraded at any point later on.
Selecting Harddisk Capacity:
Harddisk is though not usually associated with the speed or performance of
your system, you cannot afford to overlook it as you would need to choose
the harddisk based on the amount of data you are looking to store in your laptop.
For enormous data , 1 320 HDD would be recommended, else you could
do it with 80, 160 or 250GB. Like RAMs, Harddisk can be upgraded too.
Selecting the display:
Display can be selected based on the size you are looking for and also the
resolution that you would want.
Selecting Graphics unit:
Graphics is a vital component in the laptop espcially for the ones into gaming
or animation. It accelarates the performance as well as the user experience.
Laptops are available with either a shared memory or dedicated memory. A dedicated
memory is preferred for user profiles as afore mentioned and all
those taking Graphics unit seriously. Graphics unit found are usually from Intel,
NVidia and ATI. However, it does not end here, selecting a graphics unit also
involved selecting a proper graphic chipset, for eg. chipsets like NVidia 9600GT
could be considered novice and intermediate chipsets and NVidia GTX280,
NVidia GTX295 , ATI HD4870 could be considered the hign end or advanced ones.
Selecting an Optical Drive
A very small portion of the buyers look upon selecting the optical drive as
a major criteria. But in case you are eyeing on anything like a Blu-ray,
make sure what you buy has got one.
Selecting the weight :
Though most want a light weight laptop, some might prefer not to compromise
on budget or certain additional features that add up weight. Its an individuals
choice
at the end of the day.
Selecting audio unit:
People seeking complete entertainment consider audio unit as another important.
Check the ausio chipset and leran about them externally and decide
on the one which is likely to give you the desired performance.
Selecting an Operating System:
Check the features of the individual operating systems from various sources
and see which OS would suffice for you. For eg, A Genuine Windows Vista Home
Basic or Genuine Windowa Vista Home Premium.
Others:
USB Ports: The number of ports that you might be adding.
Webcam: Yes or no and if yes, Check Mega pixels
Finger Print Reader: Yes or no.
Speakers: Manufacturer and type
Bluetooth: Yes or no
Wifi: Technology manufacturer
Card Reader: 8 in 1 , 16 in 1 etc.
Colour: Your Choice
Finish: Matt or Glossy
Carrycase: Included or Not, If yes, Carry case or backpack
and Offers if any.
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