Laptop Buying Guide 2012
Laptops or notebooks are very popular and favorites for today fast-paced world
. These have replaced desktop pcs at a rapid pace. Customers have unlimited choice because lots of manufacturers offers laptops with additional features and styles. This buying guide will help and also make the buying decision simpler and easy for you. Lets check it out!
Netbooks and Tablet PCs: This is a great product for the incessantly mobile customers and its small size makes it easy to carry it along. The big differentiators with the traditional computer are that in these the screens rotate and one can use fingers instead of the keyboard. Storage wise there is a hard drive with 200GB space, a tiny screen of less than 13 inches and a RAM of between 1 and 4 GB.
Balanced Systems: The next level of offering and this laptop can do everything a computer can do including burning and playing DVDs, surfing the Web, and playing games which are not very graphic intensive. Storage wise there is a hard drive with 250GB space, a screen size of 14 to 16 inches and a RAM of more than 2GB.
High Power Desktop Replacements: Some multimedia and gaming professionals require a powerful laptop that is a complete replacement of a desktop computer. The main expectation here is not only to be able to carry this machine around but also to use it for heavy duty graphic processing. It has lots of storage space and a large screen. These laptops provide the facility to run graphic design programs and also high-end games. Movies can also be edited and played in these.
Processor: The CPU or the central processing unit is the brain of the computer which does all the calculations and computations. On a chip one can have multiple CPUs and these are called Processors with multiple cores. Gigahertz (GHz) is the unit of measurement of processor speed.
Hard Drive: The hard drive is the permanent memory where the software programs, music, video, etc. are stored. One would require an additional external hard drive if one wants to store many movies and videos.
System Memory: RAM or random access memory helps one run multiple programs without compromising on the speed of the computer.
Screens: There are various kinds of laptop screens like LCDs and LEDs (which provide better contrast and depth in viewing).The latest development is the touch screen which makes the need for the mouse and the keypad redundant.
Battery: The number of components running on the system and the concurrent programs which are run on the system determine the battery life.
Optical Drive: Reading and writing DVDs is a critical part of a laptop, which is taken care of by the optical drive.
Video: In case one wants to connect large monitors, projectors and HDTVs, one needs VGA, HDMI or DVI port.
Firewire: To capture video from a digital camcorder, one needs a firewire port.
Memory Card Ports: Digital cameras and other devices have flash memory cards which can be read by some laptops that have media ports.
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