Laptop Buying Guide

These days laptop users have been on a rise because of the increase in work on the move, the main thing which computers lacks is portability, and hence to tackle that problem god created Laptop. These days there have been so many varieties of laptops that even the buyers get confused which one to buy and which one to not, with so many good offers from so many companies. Read through the Laptop Buying Guide for different users to tackle this problem.

The Students

The students need laptops which are not pricey at all yet affordable and powerful enough to do the daily job of all the students. Portability is one of the biggest key-factors after the price for the daily use of students, as moving a laptop from one class to the other plays a vital role. The laptop should also have a little power in the CPU so that it allows students to see movies and listen to music and also sometimes allow them to do multi-tasking. Net-book is the best thing for students, but the problem with Net-books is that they lack the capability of power and hence multi-tasking could be painfully slow. The laptops should also have a large hard-disk for storing various data and files for the students.

What should buyers look for: At least 1GB of RAM; 160GB or larger HDD; 13-inch or smaller display.

The home user

People who use laptops and not computer for all their daily work, like productivity, surfing the internet, etc. should have a pretty powerful laptops as these things replace the computers in the house. Occasionally they might be needed to show/view movies, pictures and many more and for that a little powerful processor and CPU are needed. These things have one thing in advantage over computers, that is these can be used while you are working on a thing hence multi-tasking. The laptops should also have connectivity options with television and other stuff. Laptops should also have DVD-writers for occasional use of making DVDs and sharing them. And lastly they should be economical saving a lot of money for the family!

What should buyers look for: 2GB to 4GB of RAM; 250GB or larger HDD; 14- to 16-inch display; DVD burning optical drive.

The photographer and/or the videographer

What do you think hard-core gamers are the only one with very powerful laptops? Wrong, then think again, with the new High-Definition(HD) technology photographers have to now shift to powerful laptops which support HD because the old one with no graphics card don't support HD and that is one thing a photographer won't want in his life. To support and edit pictures and videos in HD, buyers need to think of very powerful computers with massive hard drives to store massive video and pictures. These HD quality videos and pictures take and consume most of the power of the Laptop, hence buyers need faster processor.

What should buyers look for: 4GB-8GB of RAM; 320GB or larger 7,200rpm HDD; 17-inch or larger display.

The business traveler

People regularly travelling not only need power from their laptops but also battery life for doing a work in a period of long hours. They also need laptop which is pretty tough, so that some shocks don't result in damage of the laptop and other hardware. These laptop also need good security softwares through which a person can safeguard all his important documents and which also has powerful productivity tools.

What should buyers look for: 2GB to 4GB of RAM; 160GB or larger HDD; 12- to 15-inch display; Windows Vista Professional or Windows 7 Professional; mobile broadband modem.

The Gamer

The gamers need the most powerful and latest cutting-edge laptop for having the capability to play games released in recent times with high end graphics. The hard-core gamers will go for desktop gaming but gamers who also want gaming and portability will surely go for laptops. These laptops are not at all economical and are very high on power capable of playing and working any program and any game you throw on the laptop. The laptop also need a big screen for making the details of the games clearer.

What should buyers look for: 4GB to 8GB of RAM; 320GB or larger 7,200rpm HDD; 17-inch or larger display; discrete graphics GPU.