Laptop Questions

[sunny5 0]

would you mind give me some suggextions about laptops?I want to buy a laptopthanks advance

[mrdee 1]

Sunny5,

we could do that, and would be quite willing to do so.

However, you do not give us much to go on.

 

Some examples:

 

How much would you be willing to spend?

What kind of work do you plan to do with it?

Related to the above, what software do you want to run on it?

It depends on whether you just want to use your laptop to the usual things, like surfing the net and sending some emails, or whether you want to turn your laptop into your home office, running powerful office software.

 

Also, if you plan to do lots of photo/video or music editing, you will need a fairly fast model, with quite a large Hard Disk Drive, this will obviously come at a price too.

 

If you intend to do lots of nowadays gaming on it, you will need fast graphics too.

 

So, if you could give us a better insight into your budget and what you want to use your laptop for primarily, we will be able to give you some more information too.

[Iniyila 2]

hmm, so i assume that you don't know anything about how to buy a laptop, so here i will give you a list of question that you have to answer for getting a correct suggestion :1. What you want to do with your laptop ? this is very important, if you have a car and go to everywhere with your car then you can go for heavier ones too but if you don't have a car then being light is one of the important thing you have to keep in mind. if you are in university and you are going to be an engineer then you probably want to be able to run some eng. softwares very fast so a quad core cpu will be a suggestion but if you are a business man and you also care about the performance then you should go for ultra low power series of quad core cpu which means you should go for second generation of core i special series. if you like gaming too then a powerful graphic card is what you need but if you want to do some rendering then special series from nvidia is a suggestion for you. if you don't have time for watching movies and playing games you don't need a full HD screen and you can get a lighter and smaller laptop but if you are a game worm then a full HD which means at leas 15 inches LCD/LED is needed for your laptop, so it is very important to tell what you want from your laptop or in other hand what you are doing right now ? what kind of job do you have and what will laptop do for you ?2. Your budget ? if your budget is open till a specific amount then if you answer the first question correctly it will be very easy to choose a good one, but if you have a specific limited amount of budget then many choices you will get in the first question will be out of the game in this section. now if you gonna make money from your laptop (i mean if you are a programmer, designer, engineer, ... and you gonna do some projects with your laptop) then don't worry about the money so if you spend a little more it and it can give you more time for doing your project then you have won a lot of money for just a little of it. this is very important to know that the if you buy a laptop with the highest performance possible then you should know that these laptops will just get a lot of cheaper than a month or two after their initial release so if you care about the money you pay never go for the first released ones. some manufactures will get money from you only for some luxuries they have put on their laptops so if you do not care about luxuries then do not go for them. 3. How long you will use your laptop ? this is important too, will you replace your current laptop with another one next year ? if you do then do not go for brands which are popular for having long life because you will not use your laptop more than a year, so buying an acer which in these days is one of the heroes in price/performance section will do the job for you but if you pay for sony then you have to pay more for same config and the only thing you may see form it (only may !) is that it will have a more longer life than the acer (maybe not!). if you gonna keep your laptop for a long time then buying "made in china" laptops is not a good decision, many manufactures still produce some of their products in other countries like sony, dell, ... and you can go for them too and if you want to buy a china made one be sure that there is not any general failure about the specific model you want to buy. Now after answering these questions your choices will be limited to a few and choosing between them is a lot easier than choosing between thousands of laptops without any idea about how to choose one.