Even if laptops aren’t as expensive as they used to be a few years ago, spending $700 to $1200 on a system, without being properly informed is an unnecessary risk to take. The answer to the question “How to buy a portable computer?” isn’t pretty obvious and after reading this article you will surely know what I was talking about here. The first thing that you should take into consideration before looking for a system is the purpose of your acquisition. Do you want a system that can support even the most demanding games? Do you want your laptop for chatting, mailing and internet access? Do you want your laptop for video editing? Are you a professional photographer and need a portable device to keep track of your work? The examples can go on, as laptops have a large variety of uses.

If you are a gamer, you will certainly need a sophisticated graphics card and a fast processor. A generous hard drive may also come in handy because, as you probably know, today’s games may need over 10 GB to run properly. In this case, your purchase may range somewhere between $1000 and $2500. On the other hand, if you need a laptop for internet and mailing, the financial requirements will lower considerably because you don’t quite need a last generation system. A 1.2 GHz processor and 512 RAM will do the job without any glitches. Such systems can cost around $600.

If you are a photographer or you just like to edit your home made movies you will need a generous RAM and a decent processor. Bear in mind that in this case you will also need to purchase a video or photo editing software license. Adding everything up, you might need around $1000 for this type of configuration. After figuring out the purpose of your laptop, you have to take a look inside your wallet and ask yourself the following question: “Can I afford a new laptop or should I look for a second hand one?” If you have enough financial resources to buy a new laptop than you just have to go to your nearest IT shop and with the help of the information staff you will most likely find what you are looking for.



If you can’t afford a new laptop, there are many solutions as well. Sites like eBay or Amazon.com have a large variety of second hand laptops at very accessible prices. Please be aware of the traps and defective products that are spread on the market. I hope I gave you a few guidelines on how to buy a laptop. The rest depends on you. As a general rule, you have to be extremely patient and rational at all times and you will eventually be rewarded with your dream laptop.

A colored laptop makes your day brighter and you cannot be sad when that computer is around. The notebooks are available in many colors and every manufacturer uses colored computers: green, pink, yellow, blue, white, red, black, orange, silver, gold, purple and combination of those.

The colored laptop computers are especially bought by the young people, but they are well sold when talking about middle-aged persons. If you want to make a present and if you have enough money to do that, you can buy a colored laptop. This applies for your girlfriend, for your child and for your sister or aunt, if they are young. A person having more than 40 years old doesn’t appreciate a pink computer, for example, like a teenager would do.

Dell has a special collaboration with a breast cancer foundation and for every pink computer sold by this corporation, the foundation receives a certain amount of money, which is transferred automatically in the foundation’s bank account. This is only about Dell. Other computer brands use different methods to keep their customers close to them and also to make a charity once in a while. If you don’t like the color that your computer has, you are able to use a computer skin.

All the computers let you attach to them computer skins representing your favorite music band, your favorite sports team, cartoon character and so on. For some images and pictures, you must have the license to use them and to stick them on your computer cover. You should buy the license from that music band or sports team management. Luckily, there are a lot of musicians and players out there that let you use their pictures and images without paying them.

This is a form of appreciation and I guess no one will found out that you have a computer skin representing Donald Duck and you must pay the studios for using it. If they don’t let you use the skin, then it’s ok; you will use another image. This is a marketing form after all; you provide them an advantage; people will remember thanks to your computer skin of Donald Duck. If they don’t let you use the skin for free, then it’s their loss.

Speaking of Dell, I must mention that at Dell’s once again, you can find the best way for getting your computer personalized. They have a local studio from where you can get over 200 designs for your computer. These drawings are made by digital artists and they are unique, so you don’t have to worry about buying or not the license for using the skin, because they are personalized according to your needs and to the artist’s talent and the design is not applied on a computer skin, but actually on the back of the computer.

The laptop computers are bringing something new for more than 10 years now. They are portable computers and they let the user to access the Internet in a nice and easy way. If you have a laptop, you know what I mean. Just open the Wireless option and connect to the Internet.

When you use a desktop computer, first of all you have to connect to a local area network and only after that to the Internet. This situation can happen also with a laptop computer, as long as you use the Ethernet connector to access the Internet. A desktop can use the Wireless technology if the owner is not a fan of Ethernet connections. You must know if you want to follow this path too that a Wireless connection consumes more energy, thus more power from your outlet. If you use a laptop and you run it while it uses its batteries for producing power, then you will reduce considerably the computer runtime.

The good thing about laptop computers is that they are smaller and lightweight. It is difficult to transport a desktop computer, simply because it weighs more than a laptop, sometimes two times more. We find it difficult to carry a heavy notebook, so if we mention a desktop, the situation becomes more complicated. If you can use a hard case that encapsulates and at the same time protects the laptop from bumps and dents, you cannot use a case like this for your desktop. The other advantage of a case is that it let you transport the computer in a safe manner. When talking about a desktop, nothing is safe.

You might drop it if you are not strong enough and if you don’t use something to protect the computer, like a strong and resistant carrying case, that is suitable to be carried with your hands, not in your back. Probably there are in this world, but I haven’t seen them: backpacks for carrying desktops. A laptop can be easily transported in your back using a backpack. And there are a lot of manufacturers that produce this kind of products.

The computers available on market are either new or refurbished. This means that the computers have been used by somebody else before you, but they are retested and revalidated. Usually, the computers that have been used previously by other person or persons, come for a cheaper price.

This is the advantage of a refurbished computer. If you don’t like this idea, you can wait until your preferred manufacturer will offer a deal or a promotion and you could buy a new, but discounted, computer. don’t worry about the warranty period, because it is the same as the one offered for a new computer. Or at least, the manufacturers I know offer the same warranty for both new and used computers, if you buy the computers directly from them: Sony and Dell.

For a business man that has many employees, the computers that have to be used in order to make the company running must be cheap. And if the manager doesn’t want to buy refurbished computers, then it starts a true Sherlock Holmes game regarding how to find the best laptop computers for the company’s employees.

You could tell them to come with their own computers until you solve the situation, but you will look at least odd in their eyes. If you don’t have the necessary means for starting a business, then don’t start it and most of all, don’t hire people and don’t let them to stare at the company’s walls, because they don’t have a machine to work on it.

As a professional, you have to buy computers for your people from a single manufacturer. Don’t buy a Dell computer for Sarah and a Mac laptop for Bill. They need to know that you don’t make differences between them and that all of them are important to you in the same manner. The best choice would be to register on several computer websites and wait until you get newsletters with the new releases in terms of computers and laptops.

You can find what is the main characteristic of a laptop by regarding the news coming from a certain computer company, how to troubleshoot the computer when needed, how to benefit of an extended warranty period and so on. This requires time to read all the news and emails coming from different computer manufacturers, but think of it that way: you do this for the benefit of your company; if you will have happy employees, you will definitely prosper with your firm.

Make sure you buy computers that come with more than a year warranty period. If they don’t, prolong this period by adding some dollars to the computers price. I am sure that you are going to get a discount offered by the manufacturer if you buy more than 10 computers. Take advantage of that discount and with the money that you save by this, buy an extra warranty period. Think that those computers are going to be used by your employees and everybody knows how an employee treats his computer when he get upset.

If you buy them laptops, protect those computers by using hard cases that encapsulate the computer and protect the covers. For screen, you can use a protective film, that protects the computer against scratches and bumps. You might also tell your employees that if you find the computer scratched or harmed in any way, you will ask them to pay for the repair and probably in this way, you will limit them a little or at least limit their violent behaviors.

We buy laptop computers for different reasons in order to satisfy our needs. In this article I will write about gaming laptop computer andthings to take into consideration when buying gaming laptop computers.

So, the first very important aspect that a gaming laptop computer should have it is the Graphics. All gamers are obsessed to have the best, the latest and the fastest Graphics. Graphics or the quality of the graphics chipset in your laptop computer should be your first area of consideration because it definitely will determine the gaming performance of your laptop computer. Now, I will give you some examples of Graphics Chipsets that are highly rated on specialized websites.

The first is ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 which is a high quality Graphics Card being present in almost all next generation laptop computers. It gives to your laptop computer higher performance at a low power level, meaning that it will save battery power. Other good Graphics chipset are Nvidia GeForce Go 7800 GTX and ATI`s Mobility FireGL V3200. These three graphics make you laptop computer capable of 3D games, wide-screen HDTV, presentations made in a dynamic way, mobile video editing studio and graphic processors. The display quality is also very important in order to achieve a good gaming experience.

Before buying a laptop computer, you must be sure that the resolution and display quality of your laptop computer model can handle 3D gaming graphics. Another aspect that each gamer should be concerned about is the RAM quality that his laptop computer has it. The first advice I will give to is to buy the largest amount of RAM. Why? The RAM determines how much graphics your laptop computer is able to handle.

The laptop computer uses RAM (random-access memory) in order to run applications and data on your laptop computer operating system. Generally, you need at least 256 MB for Windows XP and Mac OS X operating systems. Concerning other operating systems in Windows or Mac, you will ness only 128 MB. If you want to handle important graphic files or want to play on your laptop computer the RAM and the amount of RAM that your laptop computer has is very important indeed.

SPEED…one of the most important aspect that a laptop computer should feature when buying it for gaming activities. When you want to enjoy the maximum performance of your gaming laptop computer, you must get the fastest speed you can afford. PLEASE, retain the fact that a 7200 rpm Hard Drive is 33% faster than 4200 rpm drives. CPU (Central Processing Unit) is the processor of your laptop computer and it is also the brain which is doing all your laptop computer`s data processing and applications.

Since it is doing the most important work, it is obvious that it is the most expensive part of your laptop computer. SATA is the type of hard drive which was improved by a big group of companies such as Seagate, Intel, Maxtor, Dell and others. There are also Serial ATA hard drives which use less power and are ideal for laptop computers and much better that PATA hard drives which use multiple streams of data.

So, the main features a laptop computer should have it in order to be a great gaming laptop computer are high spec processor, dedicated graphics and large memory. The best rated gaming laptop computers are: Dell Alienware M17X, Rock Xtreme 840 SLI, Dell Alienware M17 x and Dell Inspiron XPS Extreme.