Laptop Buying TipsYou may be a busy executive, a student away from home or a professional mostly on the move, chances are if you don't own a laptop already, you are thinking of buying one. It just may not be because all your peers fluant one, but because you really need a laptop. Why, people these days are in-fact buying laptops for using at their homes. Isn't it handy to take it to any other room or even the lawn or balcony!
First you have to decide what you'd use the laptop for: surfing the net, word & excel (primarily office applications), gaming (needs enhanced multimedia performance), watching movies, listening to music, storing and editing photos and other such applications. You'll find laptop models which cater to each of these user segments. Similarly, choices galore in terms of size too. From the slim, ultra portable ones to the big and heavy ones, you can find them all. You again have to select the laptop depending on your usage and the functionalities you want in your notebook. The ultra portable one might be easier to carry but it may not allow you to do much apart from web browsing and word processing (unless you are willing to pay a huge sum - more than a 1 lakh for it in India!), while the bulkier ones can pretty much replace the desktop. Most importantly you have to decide upon the configuration of your notebook and you have to find out the answers to following questions:
The answers to these and other similar questions would again depend upon your pattern of intended use and of course your budget! Resources: Authored by: omp |