Best College Laptops

The most simple definition for a laptop would be that it is  a portable computer. Normally, the laptops were made for those people who are traveling a lot, and they could really need to use a computer wherever they are going. But these days many people prefer to buy a laptop instead of a desktop computer, and use it daily on their desk…and use it when they are traveling just rarely, from time to time.

One of the categories of people that are often traveling and that could really use a laptop are the college students. Whether they are traveling from home to their classes or from the city they are studying back home to the city they were born they need a laptop to store all their courses, homework, projects and so on. But besides this  a student also needs to have fun (for example by watching movies or playing video games), and that’s why the best college laptop would need to offer quite powerful features. So now let’s discuss about a laptop that fulfils most of these needs, and we’ll take for example the Toshiba – Qosmio Laptop with Intel® Core ™ i5 Processor – Omega Black, Model: X 505-Q 865. Toshiba is one of the best laptop producers in the world, so you can definitely trust the brand. And Qosmio is one of their top series of laptops, so it will be really good. And of course the price will be quite big too, and this model costs 1,099 dollars.

As you can see the design is not really simple and all black like most of the laptops, and it has some red areas, making it more attractive for students. Its display screen is a really large one, and has 18.4 inch in diagonal. It is a LCD display screen that offers a high resolution of 1680 x 945, meaning that you can watch movies in High Definition and play advanced video games with a very good video quality. And it doesn’t just look good, it will also sound good thanks to its Harman Kardon speakers, with Dolby Digital Home Theater support. The hard drive offers plenty of space for many big video games and movies, thanks to the 500 GB of disk space.  The processor is a powerful one, the RAM memory is really good and the graphics engine is nice too. So besides video games you can do any other computer activity you want, and even do more at the same time. But to understand better the features offered by this model, here are its complete technical details:

-Warranty Terms – Parts 1 year limited
-Warranty Terms – Labor 1 year limited
-Product Height 1.6 ”
-Product Width 17.4 ”
-Product Weight 9.7 lbs.
-Product Depth 11.6 ”
-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 12 cell lithium-ion
-Display Type High definition plus widescreen TFT-LCD with TruBrite technology (1680 x 945)
-Screen Size (Measured Diagonally) 18.4 ”
-Cache Memory 3 MB on die Level 3
-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/CD-RW
-Optical Drive Speeds 6 x DVD+R DL: 6 x DVD-R DL; 8x8x8 DVD+RW; 8x6x8 DVD-RW; 5 x DVD-RAM; 24 x24x24 CD-RW
-Direct-Disc Labeling Yes
-Digital Media Reader or Slots Yes, digital media card reader
-Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360 M
-Video Memory 1 GB GDDR 5 (discrete); up to 1274 MB (dynamically allocated shared graphics memory using NVIDIA TurboCache technology); 2298 MB total
-TV Tuner No
-MPEG Yes
-Built-in Webcam Yes
-Modem None
-Networking Built-in 10/ 100/1000 Ethernet LAN (RJ 45 connector)
-Wireless Networking Wireless-B+G+N
-Bluetooth-Enabled Yes
-S-Video Outputs None
-Additional Audio/Video Connectors HDMI-CEC
-Audio Dolby Home Theater support
-Speakers Internal
-PCMCIA Slots 1 ExpressCard/34/54
-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 Not available
-Pointing Device Multitouch TouchPad
-HDMI Output Yes
-Blu-ray Player No
-Operating System Platform Windows
-Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
-Included Software Microsoft Works 9; Adobe Acrobat Reader and more
-ENERGY STAR Qualified Yes
-BBY Software Installer Yes
-Graphics Chip NVIDIA