It is quite a normal thing that when buying a laptop, everyone would like to make the best laptop deal. But unfortunately not everyone manages to do this…some people simply buy the first product they see, from the first store they get in, and then they complain that they didn’t bought a good product. So this is what happens when you don’t make some research first. If you want a product from a real store, then you should first make a visit to all of the stores, and see exactly which laptops you can find there, and for what prices. Then after finding a few good deals, you can begin to compare them, and only then choose the best laptop for the best price.

In case you buy your laptop from the internet, there are even more possibilities, because there are so many sites that are selling laptops, and so many different models. But you will be thanking yourself later in the future for making a few hours of research because you have bought a really good laptop, at a really good price. So researching is the best method to find the best laptop deal.

An example of a site that has quite good laptop deals is geeks.com. We don’t say that this site offers the best laptops on the internet, but we just give it as an example of a place with good and quite cheap laptops (and they also give you a 90 day warranty for any used laptop that you buy from them).

So now let’s discuss more about a laptop from this site, for example the Dell Inspiron 1564, which is quite a good and also not very expensive laptop. Here on this site you can find it at a price of 599 dollars. And the features it has are quite good, good enough for most of the simple computer users. It has quite an interesting design with a Cherry red external LCD cover, and a silver and black interior. As you buy it from this site it will come with an installed version of the Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit, so you can use it right after buying it.

The battery is a 6 cell one, with these specifications:

Webcam and  microphone built into LCD bezel

Many years ago when the laptops appeared it was thought that they would be used just by some categories of people and that they will never have success at the big masses of buyers. But those who thought this were wrong, and now the laptops are really popular among all categories of people. They are still popular among the categories they were initially (business men, sales representatives) but they are also popular among other categories (for example college students, DJ-s and even to regular people that are choosing a laptop simply to replace their desktop computer). There are many models of laptops on the market, and they can be sorted on different categories, depending on their main use. Some of them are laptops for business men, other are laptops for video gamers, others for graphics designers and so on.

And today we’ll focus more on the best student laptops. To decide which would be the best laptop for a young college student, there are a few things to consider. Since not all the students are the same, of course there would be many different categories of students, and many categories of laptops for them. But for now we’ll split them just in 2 categories: the “serious” students, that are focusing more on studying and going to classes, and the “not so serious students” that prefer to have more fun, go out in clubs, play video games, watch movies etc…rather than studying hard. For the first category of students, about any laptop would be ok. Since they will use it mostly for writing homework and projects for school, for browsing the internet in search of study information  and so on…they won’t need a very powerful laptop, and a netbook can be a great choice. It is also much smaller compared to a regular laptop, so the student can take it anywhere, and he can also take his laptop at courses, and write directly in a document, instead of writing on a piece of paper.

And now let’s see which would be the best student laptops for the other category, the students who don’t like studying so much. As we said, they will mostly use their laptops for browsing the internet, playing video games and watching movies, and for these activities they will need a slightly better laptop. For playing advanced video games you will need first of all a powerful processor and a big RAM memory. Then you will also need a great graphics engine, to support the intensive game play of the video games that are made these days. But the video quality won’t be so good without a good and quite large display screen, so you will need one with at least 15 inch in diagonal. And besides all of these features, you might also need a large hard drive to be able to store many video games and movies.

It is known that the best gaming laptops are made by Alienware, but those are also very expensive. A good Alienware laptop can cost up to 2,000 dollars, and a student usually doesn’t have so much money. But there are also some other models from different producers, that are cheaper, and that still have good enough features for advanced video games and High Definition movies. And one example is the Asus – Laptop with Intel ® Core ™ i5 Processor – Blue/Black, Model: G 60 JX-RBBX 05 | SKU: 9736955 that costs 900 dollars. So it may be a little expensive too, but it is definitely much cheaper compared to an Alienware laptop. In one article of the day we’ll present the full technical details for a laptop model, and for today we’ll show them for this Asus notebook.

So here they are:
-  Warranty Terms – Parts 1 year
-  Warranty Terms – Labor 1 year limited
-  Product Height 1.6″
-  Product Width 10.4″
-  Product Weight 7.5 lbs.
-  Product Depth 14.8″
-  Gaming Series Yes
-  Color Category Black
-  Processor Brand Intel ®
-  Processor Intel® Core ™ i 5
-  Processor Speed 2.26 GHz (with Turbo Boost up to 2.53 GHz )
-  Battery Type 6 cell Lithium-Ion
-  Display Type Widescreen LED backlit LCD (1366 x 768)
-  Screen Size (Measured Diagonally) 16″
-  System Bus 1066 MHz
-  Cache Memory 3 MB on die Level 2
-  System Memory (RAM) 4 GB
-  System Memory (RAM) Expandable To 8 GB
-  Type of Memory (RAM) DDR 3
-  Hard Drive Type SATA (7200 rpm)
-  Computer Hard Drive Size 500 GB
-  Optical Drive Double layer DVD ± RW
-  Optical Drive Speeds Drive speeds not specified
-  Direct-Disc Labeling No
-  Digital Media Reader or Slots Yes, digital media card reader
-  Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360 M
-  Video Memory 1 GB GDDR 5
-  TV Tuner No
-  MPEG Yes
-  Built in Webcam Yes
-  Modem None
-  Networking Built-in 10/ 100/ 1000 Mbps (RJ 45 connector)
-  Wireless Networking Wireless- B+G+N
-  Bluetooth-Enabled No
-  S-Video Outputs None
-  Audio Altec Lansing
-  Speakers Internal
-  PCMCIA Slots None
-  USB 2.0 Ports 4
-  IEEE 1394 FireWire Ports 1
-  Parallel Ports None
-  Game Ports None
-  Laptop Weight Standard (more than 5.5 lbs.
-  Battery Life Up to 2 hours and 21 minutes
-  Pointing Device Touchpad
-  HDMI Output Yes
-  Blu-ray Player No
-  Operating System Platform Windows
-  Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
-  Included Software Adobe Reader
-  ENERGY STAR Qualified No
-  BBY Software Installer Yes
-  Graphics Chip NVIDIA
-  Backlit Keyboard Yes

As you can see, this is a really powerful laptop and will be good enough to play video games, watch movies at a great quality, browse the internet, and do any other activity that a college student might do.11

There are many good producers of laptops on the market, and some examples would be: HP, Dell, Asus, Lenovo, Acer, Apple, Sony, Toshiba, Fujitsu, MSI, Alienware, Gateway and others. Each of these companies is offering a few series of laptops and each series contains many models. So there are more than 100 different models of laptops on the market, and this is why it can be quite difficult to choose the right one. You can begin to browse the stores searching for laptops and their characteristics, but it will be much easier to browse the internet, and find out everything you want to know about a specific laptop model.

In order to buy the best value laptop, you will need to find one that is both good at technical details and also comes at an accessible price. Of course the best laptops in the world are those who cost 1,000 or even 2,000 dollars, but those are not accessible to anyone. So for today we’ll discuss more about a laptop that offers quite good features, at a good price. And this one is the Acer Aspire AS 5740-6378 Core i5 – 430 M Dual-Core 2.26 GHz 15.6 inch Widescreen Notebook that costs around 600 dollars.

So let’s look at some of its features, and discuss more about them.

Turbo Boost Technology up to 2.53 GHz, 4 processing threads, 3 MB Intel Smart Cache, Intel Hyper-Threading      Technology, Intel Virtualization Technology, Intel 64, Enhanced Intel  Speedstep Technology, Thermal Monitoring Technologies, Intel Fast Memory Access, Intel Flex Memory Access, Execute Disable Bit, Integrated Graphics, Intel HD Graphics

So the processor is a good one made by Intel, and almost the best one on the market, after the Intel i7. The battery is a good one too, but unfortunately we don’t have any information about the battery life. But it is probably somewhere around 2-3 hours. As you noticed this laptop comes directly with an installed operating system, so you can use it right after you have bought it, without needing to install anything else.

Atheros AR 5 B93 802.11 b/ g /n Wireless LAN

The graphics engine and sound are just the basic ones, but they will behave just nice for most of the simple users (those who are not interested in video or audio editing). And of course this laptop also has a  built in card reader (with support for Secure Digital (SD), MultiMediaCard (MMC), xD-Picture Card and MemoryStick/PRO (MS/MS PRO) .

Alienware is an American computer hardware company which is also a subsidiary of the large multinational corporation – Dell Inc. It produces devices such as  computers and laptops with custom features for high performance gaming. Since these computers and laptops have very advanced features along with a powerful graphics engine, they can also support other advanced tasks such as: video editing, simulation or audio editing. Alienware also sells other gaming products made by other companies, such as: headsets, mice, monitors, keyboards and others. This company was founded in 1996 by Nelson Gonzalez and Alex Aguila and has the headquarters in Florida, United   States of America.

So its products are very powerful, and also very expensive. And not only the inside of the Alienware computers and laptops are made specially for gaming, the outside has a very unique and interesting design too. An Alienware computer will look just like a piece of alien technology that just came out from a Science Fiction movie or video game.

Definitely the best laptop for gaming is the Alienware – Laptop with Intel ® Core ™ 2 Quad Processor – Black, Model: M 17 X – 2308 MBK | SKU: 9693464. This is among the most expensive laptops in the world, with a price of 2,299 dollars. But of course it is also a really powerful one, that will work with any complex video game or any other computer activity. So let’s look closely at its technical details. First let’s see the dimensions of this laptop. Since it has a 17 inch display screen, of course it is quite a large laptop too. It won’t be very easy to travel with it all day long, and that’s why it would be more recommended to replace your desktop computer with this laptop. But of course when it’s necessary you can travel with it, and play a video game in about any place you want.

So its dimensions are:
-  Product Height: 2.1″
-  Product Width: 16″
-  Product Weight: 11.7 lbs.
-  Product Depth: 12.7″
- Color Category: Black
-  Processor Brand: Intel ®
-  Processor: Intel ® Core ™ 2 Quad
-  Processor Speed 2.0 GHz
-  Display Type:  WXGA + widescreen LCD (1440 x 900)
-  Screen Size (Measured Diagonally):  17 ”

So as you can notice the processor is a powerful one made by Intel, while the display screen is a large widescreen of 17 inch that will offer you a great video quality whenever you will play a video game, watch a movie or do anything else.

-  System Bus:  1066 MHz
-  Cache Memory: 6 MB
-  System Memory (RAM): 4 GB
-  System Memory (RAM): Expandable To 8 GB
-  Type of Memory (RAM): DDR 3 SDRAM

The RAM memory is  powerful too, so that it can support the complex video games of these days, and also other multitasking activities that you might want to do on your laptop. As you can see below, the hard drive is very good too, offering plenty of space so that you can store a lot of video games, movies, music and other files.

-  Hard Drive Type SATA (7200 rpm)
-  Computer Hard Drive Size 500 GB
-  Optical Drive Double-layer DVD ± RW/ CD-RW
-  Optical Drive Speeds  Drive speeds not specified
-  Direct-Disc Labeling No
-  Blu-ray Player No

The optical drive could have been a little better for this price. It is true that you can read and write DVD-s with up to 8.5 GB of disc space, but the latest technology in this domain is the Blu-ray disc, and this one doesn’t have Blu-ray support.

-  Digital Media Reader or Slots Yes, digital media card reader

-  Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX  260 M

-  Video Memory 1 GB (dedicated)
-  TV Tuner No
-  MPEG Yes
-  Built in Webcam Yes
-  Modem None
-  Networking Built-in 10/ 100/ 1000 Ethernet LAN
-  Wireless Networking Wireless-N
-  Bluetooth-Enabled Yes

As you can notice it has the already classic features found on most of the laptops such as the built in webcam and the wireless and Ethernet connectivity for easy access to the internet. You can’t have a great gaming experience without a good sound, and it is known that the internal speakers of a laptop are not so good. But this one doesn’t have quite regular speakers, it has audio High definition 5.1 channel surround sound. It also has most of the ports you might need, such as:

-  PCMCIA Slots:  1 ExpressCard
-  USB 2.0 Ports:  4
-  IEEE 1394 FireWire Ports:  1
-  Parallel Ports:  None
-  Game Ports:  None
-  HDMI Output: Yes

Considering its dimensions it would be best to use at your desk, but of course it is still a laptop and can be carried around and used anywhere. And its battery is quite a powerful one considering the powerful features that this laptop has:

-  Battery Type: 9 cell Lithium Ion
-  Battery Life: Up to 3 hours and 26 minutes
-  Pointing Device: Touchpad
And it even comes with an installed version of the operating system Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.
-  ENERGY STAR Qualified:  No
-  BBY Software Installer:  No
-  Backlit Keyboard:  Yes

So after all it is a powerful laptop, one that it will worth is high price, and it is definitely the best laptop for gaming on the market right now. Enjoy it!11

So now it’s the time for the article where we will present the full technical details for a model of laptop. And for today we’ll choose one that is made by the company who has the best selling laptops and personal computers in the world, and this is Hewlett Packard. It is a large multinational company that sells many different kinds of computer related products, including desktop computers, notebooks, printers, scanners, hand-held, calculators, photo printing services and others.

And of course you can find many models of laptops in the offer of HP, with all kinds of technical details and prices. The cheapest HP laptops can even cost 400 dollars, while the most expensive ones can cost 1,800 dollars. So you there is a HP laptop for about anyone, no matter which are its main computer activities and preferences. And for today we’ll discuss more about one found at the middle of the price range. It is not a powerful high end laptop, but it is not a weak one either.  It is the HP Pavilion dv6 – 2157 wm, and can be found on geeks.com for a price of 554 dollars.

And as we said before, here are the complete specifications for this model:

HP Webcam with integrated digital microphone