Best 17 Inch Laptops

The notebooks are getting more and more popular these days. At their beginning they were used mostly by business men because they are traveling a lot and they need to take care of their business even when they are traveling. But today anyone can buy a laptop, and use it anywhere he wants. Some are buying it because they are traveling a lot, while others just buy it to benefit from its small dimensions. So even if they are not traveling so much they simply use a laptop to have more free space on and under their desk or to take the notebook in bed and use it more comfortably.




There are many companies which are producing notebooks and here are some of the bests in the world: Hewlett Packard, Acer, Asus, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, Sony, Fujitsu, MSI and Apple. Each company is offering quite a lot of families of notebooks, each family with its own series and each series with its own models. So if you have decided to buy a new laptop, you will definitely have where to choose from. That’s why it is always best to make a lot of research before buying something and be sure that you make the best deal. There are probably more than 100 different new models of notebooks, but for today we’ll choose just 2 of them and make a notebook computer comparison. We’ll first discuss some general stuff about each model, and then present the technical details for each one and see which one offers the best features and the best price.



And for today we’ll compare some of the best 17 inch laptops, one made by Toshiba and the other made by Acer. Let’s begin with Acer, and from this producer we’ll choose the Aspire 7740 laptop which has a price of 700 dollars. It comes with a 17.3 inch display that has a 16:9 aspect ratio that will allow you to watch movies in High Definition, or do any other computer activity with a good video quality. The features offered by this model are:
-         operating system – Genuine Windows ^® 7 Home Premium ; 64 bit version;
-         processor – Intel ® Core ™ i3-330 M (3 MB L 2 cache, 2.13 GHz);
-         memory – 4 GB (2 / 2) DDR 3 1066 SD RAM;
-         hard drive – 500 GB;
-         integrated Super Multi drive;



-         5 in 1 card reader;
-         Acer ® CineCrystal 17.3 ” (1600 x 900) TFT display;
-         Intel ® HD Graphics;
-         802.11 b / g / n WLAN, gigabit LAN,
-         V.92 modem,
-         webcam;
-          fingerprint reader
And now let’s take a model of notebook from Toshiba that also has a 17 inch display screen and a pretty close price. And we’ll choose the Toshiba Satellite Pro L 550 notebook. The display screen for this one also has 17.3 inch in diagonal and it offers a High Definition vision so that you can enjoy good quality at movies, video games or perform multitasking activities. This one also has a HDMI port, so in case you are not pleased with the display from the laptop, you can connect it to a High Definition TV and enjoy movies at even better quality. It also features a built in webcam with microphone.
And now here are the technical details for the Toshiba L 550 – EZ 1703 model:
-         processor – Intel ® Core ™ 2 Duo Processor T 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
-         memory – 4 GB DDR 3
-         graphics engine – Intel ® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500 MHD

-         hard drive -  400 GB HDD (5400 rpm)
-         optical drive – DVD Super Multi 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
-         price – 900 dollars

At this comparison, the best 17 inch laptop from these 2 models is definitely the Acer Aspire 7740. Most of the features of the two models are the same, but there are still some big and important differences. The first major one is at the processor, and the processor from the Acer laptop is a newer and better one. The second difference would be at the hard drive, and the Acer laptop has a disc capacity of 500 GB, while the Toshiba model has just 400 GB. And besides this the model from Acer is 200 dollars cheaper so it can be considered better than the Toshiba Satellite Pro L 550. In case you own any of these 2 laptops, we invite you to tell us more details about them, and if you are happy with them or not. Have a great day!