Of lately laptops & note books have become a commodity for every one’s use. It has become a part of the daily life & a part of what most people carry around with them. So if you are planning to buy a laptop you need to be aware of a few things that will help you to buy the laptop of your choice.
The first thing you should consider is the screen size of the laptop. The light & thin note books available in the market are generally 11- 13 inch & sometimes may be 14 inch.
The general note books will not contain optical drive as it is energy consuming and also will increase thw weight of the laptop. The battery life of laptops with optical drive is 5-6 hours. The thin laptops weighs up to 5 Ibs & the heavier ones with lager screens weighs 5 Ibs – 9Ibs.
Most of the light ones will have 1 GB memory which you can increase up to 2 GB later on if you want to. To be able to do that you need to ensure that your note book has 1GB memory installed & a 1 GB memory bay which is free.
Some times if you are lacking budget you might opt to get a notebook with a 512 MB which can later on be increased with 2 1 GB memories. But doing that would be a mistake because the installment of 2GB memory later on will cost you much more that what you could have paid for it if you would have bought it along with the laptop. More over the 512 will make your laptop slow & it won’t help your cause to make your laptop operating experience a good one.
As far as the processor is concerned you should opt to go with core2 duo or dual core. Though a bit more expensive than other processors but it will do more justice to the money you are spending.
You need not to be so choosey about the hard drive of the laptop. Most of the note books have a hard drive of 200GB which is enough for most of the users. But if you need more than that you can have hard drive of 400GB.
The use of graphics card in laptop depends on the user. Most of the notebooks offer a power efficient card that can merely be used as a DVD layback. Some will give you better graphics cards which might be ok for occasional gamming but not suitable for lengthy gamming.
Incase of operating system always go with the one you feel comfortable with. If you opt for Xp then 512MB is obvious while for vista 1 GB is enough but 2 GB is always preferred.
With so many new laptops being launched every day in the market if these few things are taken in to consideration then buying a laptop can be an easy task.