Best 17 Inch Laptops And Notebooks

In case you still don’t know what a laptop is, the simplest definition for you would be that a laptop is a portable computer. It has all the components that can be found at a PC (monitor, keyboard, mouse, central unit, speakers and so on), but all of them are integrated into a single, small unit. The display screen of a laptop is the monitor from a PC,  and all of the other components are found in the lower side of the laptop. On the outside there is the keyboard, the touchpad device (which has the same functionality as the mouse from a computer), the optical drive and all the useful ports (on the sides, and sometimes even on the front or rear of the laptop). And finally on the inside there are all the internal components (processor, RAM memory, video card, sound card etc.) and also some integrated speakers. So this way you can do on a laptop all of the activities that you can do on a computer, but the difference is that on a laptop you can do all these things anywhere you want. You can use the computer just at home or in your office, but you can take the laptop in bed next to you, or at the beach, or in the park , or in the train and so on. Even though the notebooks are a little more expensive than the desktop computers, more and more people are buying them.




There are many companies that are producing good notebooks, and here are some of the bests in the world: Hewlett Packard, Acer, Asus, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, Fujitsu, MSI and Apple. Today we’ll discuss just about one of them and we’ll choose Toshiba. It is a big multinational Japanese company that is producing all sorts of electronic devices and sells them all over the world. Toshiba offers many models of notebooks which are divided into families. They are: Satellite, Satellite Pro, Qosmio, Portege and Tecra. Today we’ll discuss about one of the best 17 inch laptop, and we’ll choose one from the Satellite Pro family. Today we’ll discuss about the L 550 notebook.



Thanks to the 17.3 inch display screen (which is bigger than many models of classic CRT monitors) you can have a great video experience. But this display is even better than an old monitor because it is a widescreen  display, which also supports High Definition. So it is perfect for watching movies or multitasking activities. The design is simple and elegant and this notebook is colored in grey and black. So it can be used by both a student or a more serious business man. In case the 17.3 inch screen is not big enough for you, this notebook also has a HDMI port, so this means you can connect it to a much bigger High Definition TV, and enjoy the movies at a great quality. And besides this it also has a built in webcam so that you can communicate with friends and family who are far away from you.

It features all the useful ports and indicators that you need and here they are: on the front side there is the volume control button, the media card reader slot and the system indicator and wireless indicator lights. There is nothing on the rear side and on the left side you can find the cooling vent, the RGB monitor port, the network port, the HDMI port, the microphone jack, the headphones jack and the eSATA / USB combo port. And finally on the right side there are the optical drive, two more USB ports, the AC adapter jack and the security lock slot.

In the L 500 series you can find two different laptop models, and these are: the L 550  – EZ 1730 that costs 899 dollars and the L 550 – EZ 1702 that costs 999 dollars. And now let’s discuss more about one of them, and we’ll choose the 550  – EZ 1730. The technical details for this one are:

-         Processor – Intel ® Core ™ 2 Duo Processor Toshiba 6570
-         operating system – Genuine Windows ® 7 Professional (64 bit) with Windows XP Professional (SP 3) Recovery Media or Genuine Windows ® 7 Professional (32 bit) with Windows XP Professional (SP 3) Recovery Media (64 bit) (this may depend on the store where you buy the laptop from)
-         memory – 4 GB DDR 3
-         Graphics engine – Intel ® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500 MHD
-         Hard drive – 400 GB HDD ( 5400 rpm)
-         Optical drive – DVD SuperMulti drive (+ / -R double layer)
-         Other features –    LED Backlit Display, Numeric 10 key Pad, Bluetooth ®, Dual-core Processor, Webcam and Microphone, Energy Star Compliant, Face Recognition, HDMI port