Best Home Use Laptop

The laptops are really popular these days, and they are bought by more and more people, of all ages and social categories. A laptop is usually made for a person that is traveling a lot (for example a business man, or a student) so that he can do any computer activity every time he needs, no matter where he is. But lately not only the students or business men are buying a laptop, but any kind of people. Even though they are not traveling so much, they still prefer to buy a laptop, and replace the old desktop computer.

The best laptop for home use will need to have some specific features. First of all it needs to have quite a big display screen. If you buy a netbook (mini laptop) with a screen of 10 inch, it will be just too small for the day to day computer activities. So buying a laptop with a 17 inch widescreen display would be just great…but one with 15.6 inch will be good too. So this way you will easily be able to enjoy movies and video games at a good quality, in your own room, just like you were doing on your PC.

For the day to day simple activities such as writing emails or browsing the internet you won’t need such a powerful laptop, but if you are planning to do some advanced tasks such as watching movies in High Definition, playing advanced video games or video editing, you will need a better laptop, with a good processor, a big RAM memory and also a good graphics engine. And of course since it is your day to day computer, and you are storing all your information on it, you will also need quite a large hard disk.

One laptop that fits this description and is good for the home use is the Toshiba – Satellite Laptop with Intel® Core™ i3 Processor – Midnight Breeze, Model: L 505-GS 6002.

It offers a good display of 15.6 inch, a good RAM memory of 3 GB, a big hard drive of 320 GB and many other features such as: a built in webcam with microphone, Ethernet and wireless connectivity and so on. It has a price of around 580 dollars and it even comes with an installed version of Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64-bit. But to understand better the capabilities of this laptop, here are its complete technical details:

-Warranty Terms – Parts 1 year limited
-Warranty Terms – Labor 1 year limited
-Product Height 1.6 ”
-Product Width 15.1 ”
-Product Weight 6 lbs.
-Product Depth 10.2 ”
-Color Category Black
-Processor Brand Intel®
-Processor Intel® Core™ i3
-Processor Speed 2.13 GHz
-Battery Type 6 cell lithium-ion
-Display Type High-definition widescreen TFT-LCD with TruBrite technology (1366 x 768)
-Screen Size (Measured Diagonally) 15.6 ”
-Cache Memory 3 MB on die Level 3
-System Memory (RAM) 3 GB
-System Memory (RAM) Expandable To 8 GB
-Type of Memory (RAM) DDR 3
-Hard Drive Type SATA (5400 rpm)
-Computer Hard Drive Size 320 GB
-Optical Drive Double-layer DVD±RW/CD-RW
-Optical Drive Speeds 6x DVD+R DL; 6x DVD-R DL; 8x8x8 DVD+RW; 8x6x8 DVD-RW; 5x DVD-RAM; 24x24x24 CD-RW
-Direct-Disc Labeling Yes
-Digital Media Reader or Slots Yes, digital media card reader
-Graphics Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator HD
-Video Memory 32-1696 MB (dynamically allocated shared)
-TV Tuner No
-MPEG Yes
-Built-in Webcam Yes
-Modem None
-Networking Built-in 10/100 Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector)
-Wireless Networking Wireless-B+G+N
-Bluetooth-Enabled No
-S-Video Outputs None
-Speakers Internal
-PCMCIA Slots None
-USB 2.0 Ports 3
-Parallel Ports None
-Game Ports None
-Laptop Weight Standard (more than 5.5 lbs.)
-Battery Life Not available
-Pointing Device Multitouch TouchPad
-HDMI Output No
-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