Best Laptop For College Student

One of the best target categories for laptops are the college students. And we are talking here about the students that are studying in a different city, rather than the one they live in. Whether if they are living close to that town and traveling every day, or they are going home once every week or 2 weeks, they are often traveling. So this means that they can use their personal computer just at the new location, and not be able to use it when they are coming back home. Or even though their parents have another computer, the students still won’t have all of their files for college, documents, movies, games etc. This means that a laptop would be the perfect solution for a student. This way he will have all of his files wherever he goes, no matter if he is at the college city or at his original city.

Since a student has some special needs, the best laptop for a college student will need to have some special features. It doesn’t need any special features to help the student write documents and homework for college, because any laptop is capable of this. But it will need to be light and portable, so that the student easily caries it wherever he goes. But it can’t be very small either, because a student will definitely play some video games and watch movies…and a small laptop also has a small display screen, so the video experience won’t be so good. And now we get to the special features we talked earlier. For a laptop to support intensive 3D games, it will need to have a powerful graphics engine. But this is not all…it will also need a high performance processor for games at fast speeds, and a good RAM memory. And of course it also needs to have an optical drive (CD/DVD writer and reader), Ethernet and wireless connections and also ports like USB, HDMI, VGA, audio ports, LAN, a media card reader and so on.

Well these are mostly the features needed for a good laptop for students, and now let’s discuss about one that fulfils all of these needs. We’ll take for example the Alienware – Laptop with Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor – Cosmic Black, Model: AM 11X-2719 CSB. As you can notice from its design, it is a laptop specially made for kids and teenagers that are crazy about video games, and it is not so suited for a business man. It offers really powerful features, and it has a price of just 899 dollars. (compared to other laptops with the same features and prices way above 1.000 dollars). It has a really powerful graphics engine NVIDIA GeForce GT 335 M graphics with 1 GB GDDR 3 memory, meaning that you can play even the most advanced video games, and also watch movies in High Definition. As we said, all the other features are very good, just perfect for a student, and here are its complete technical details:

-Warranty Terms – Parts 1 year
-Warranty Terms – Labor 1 year limited
-Product Height 1.3″
-Product Width 9″
-Product Weight 3.8 lbs.
-Product Depth 11.3″
-Processor Brand Intel®
-Processor Intel® Core™ 2 Duo
-Processor Speed 1.3 GHz
-Battery Type 8 cell prismatic
-Display Type High-definition widescreen LCD (1366 x 768)
-Screen Size (Measured Diagonally) 11.6 ”
-System Bus  800 MHz
-Cache Memory 3 MB
-System Memory (RAM) 4 GB
-System Memory (RAM) Expandable To 8 GB
-Type of Memory (RAM) DDR 3 SDRAM
-Hard Drive Type SATA (7200 rpm)
-Computer Hard Drive Size 250 GB
-Optical Drive Not included
-Direct-Disc Labeling No
-Digital Media Reader or Slots Yes, digital media card reader
-Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 335 M
-Video Memory 1 GB GDDR 3
-TV Tuner No
-MPEG No
-Built-in WebcamYes
-Modem None
-Networking Built-in 10/100 Ethernet LAN
-Wireless Networking  Wireless-B+G+N
-Bluetooth-Enabled No
-S-Video Outputs None
-Additional Audio/Video Connectors HDMI
-Audio High-definition 5.1 Surround Sound support
-Speakers Internal
-PCMCIA Slots 1 ExpressCard
-USB 2.0 Ports 3
-IEEE 1394 FireWire Ports None
-Parallel Ports None
-Game Ports None
-Laptop Weight Ultraportable (5.5 lbs. or less)
-Battery Life Up to 5 hours and 35 minutes
-Pointing Device Touchpad
-HDMI Output Yes
-Blu-ray Player No
-Operating System Platform Windows
-Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
-ENERGY STAR Qualified No
-BBY Software Installer No
-Graphics Chip NVIDIA