Best Buy Co. Inc. is a large retail store of consumer electronic products from the United States of America and Canada. Here in these countries it has a market share of around 19 %, and it also operates in other countries such as: Mexico, China, Turkey, Puerto Rico and the United    Kingdom.

If you live in one of these countries, but you have never seen a Best Buy store, this is because it also operates under different names and has other subsidiaries, such as: Geek Squad, Magnolia Audio Video, Pacific Sales, Napster or Future Shop. The company was initially founded in 1966 with the name Sound of Music, and after it began to sell other types of products (not just for music), it changed its name into Best Buy (in 1983). Its headquarters is in Minnesota, United States of America but as we said it operates in other countries too and it is planning to expand in even more countries in Europe.<

Best Buy is selling many kinds of electronic devices, and here are some examples: TV-s, projectors, screens, Blu-ray and DVD players, home theater systems, iPods, MP3 players, headphones, speakers, car audio, mobile phones, digital cameras, digital SLR cameras, lenses, camcorders, webcams, computers, laptops, iPads, Tablet PC-s, netbooks, monitors, video games, GPS navigation systems, digital radios, satellite radios, radar detectors, printers, scanners, ink and toner, music, movies, TV shows, musical instruments, video games, gadgets, and a few more others. And you can buy these items from any Best Buy store, or directly from the website of the company (only if you are living in the United   States of America).

And now let’s go to the items that are really interesting us, the laptops. And for today we’ll discuss more about a laptop from Best Buy. Let’s choose  a brand new model, because these new models come with really good features, at smaller prices compared to other older laptops with the same features. In case you are looking for a cheap, budget laptop, a good choice can be the Gateway – Laptop – Velvet Blue, Model: NV 53 A 24u | SKU: 9972693. This one costs just 499 dollars, and for these money it offers quite ok features. They may not be so powerful, just like on an expensive laptop, but still they are good enough for the general computer activities. It is quite a portable laptop, with dimensions of:

-  Product Height 1.3 ”

-  Product Width 15 ”

-  Product Weight 5.7 lbs.

-  Product Depth 10 ”

This specific model is a blue one, but you can find this laptop in other colors too.

Now let’s look a little at its technical details, and then we’ll discuss more about them:
-  Processor Brand AMD

-  Processor Platform VISION

-  Processor AMD Athlon ™ II X 2

-  Processor Speed 2.3 GHz

-  Battery Type 6 cell lithium ion

-  Display Type High definition widescreen TFT LCD with Ultrabright technology (1366 x 768)

-  Screen Size (Measured Diagonally) 15.6 ”

-  System Bus 1066 MHz

-  Cache Memory 1 MB on die Level 2

-  System Memory (RAM) 4 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 4 x DVD+R DL; 4 x DVD-R DL; 8 x 8 x 6 DVD+RW; 8 x 6 x 6 DVD-RW; 5 x DVD-RAM; 24 x 16 x 24 CD-RW

-  Direct-Disc Labeling No

-  Digital Media Reader or Slots Yes, digital media card reader

-  Graphics ATI Radeon HD 4250

-  Video Memory 256 MB (dedicated)

-  TV Tuner No

-  MPEG Yes

-  Built-in Webcam Yes

-  Modem None

-  Networking Built-in 10/ 100/ 1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN (RJ 45 connector)

- Wireless Networking Wireless – B + G + N

-  Bluetooth-Enabled No

-  S-Video Outputs None

-  Audio High-definition

-  Speakers Internal

-  PCMCIA Slots None

-  USB 2.0 Ports 3

-  IEEE 1394 FireWire Ports None

-  Parallel Ports None

-  Game Ports None

-  Laptop Weight Standard (more than 5.5 lbs.)

-  Battery Life Up to 3 hours and 42 minutes

-  Pointing Device Multigesture touchpad

-  HDMI Output Yes

-  Blu-ray Player No

-  Operating System Platform Windows

-  Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit

-  Included Software Adobe Flash Player 10, Adobe Reader 9.1; Gateway Launch Manager; Microsoft Silverlight and more

-  ENERGY STAR Qualified Yes

-  BBY Software Installer Yes

So as you can see they are not very powerful, high end features, but they are not weak either. They are just good enough for most of the general computer activities, such as: browsing the internet, watching movies, listening to music, writing documents, and even playing many video games (games which don’t require a very powerful graphics engine). Even though the processor is not a Dual Core one, it has a speed of 2.3 Ghz, which is quite ok. The battery of this laptop is a 6 cell Lithium Ion battery, that can last for up to 3 hours and 42 minutes. So you can take this laptop anywhere you go, and use it anytime you want, for different activities. You can browse the internet from about any place, thanks to the fact that it has both wireless and Ethernet connectivity for easy access to the internet. And thanks to its built in webcam, you can also keep in touch with friends and family when you are far away from them. The RAM memory of 4 GB is really good for a budget laptop of 500 dollars, and with it you can do many activities at the same time.

And you can even expand this memory up to 8 GB, which is a really good thing. As we said the features offered at the brand new models are really good, and this laptop comes with a hard drive of 320 GB. And so far you could find this hard drive just on the more expensive models. If things are continuing like this, in a few years we will find a 320 GB hard drive as default even on a very small netbook, or on a very slim laptop. Thanks to the optical drive from this laptop that has double layer support, you can write DVD-s with a capacity of up to 8.5 GB.

A weak feature that you can find on most of the cheap laptops is the graphics engine that is just one with a shared memory. But this cheap laptop comes with a very good video card, an ATI Radeon HD 4250 with 256 MB of dedicated video memory! So there are actually quite a lot of video games that you can play on this notebook. It also comes with an installed version of the Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64 bit operating system, and some other programs, which means that you can use this laptop right after you bought it from the store.

So for a laptop of just 500 dollars it offers some really good features, and we definitely recommend this model. Since it is a new one, it doesn’t have any ratings or reviews yet. But if you buy it and use it for some time, we invite you to be the first one to rate and review this notebook. You can do this on the site of Best Buy at this link here on our site. Have a nice day!

Even though most of the laptops have the exact shape, and most of them have the same color too (black), they are quite really different from one another. And this is because of their technical details and also because of their display screen. When speaking of technical details the most important component is the processor. Today we can find laptops with processors made by Intel or AMD. There are many versions made by each company, some being more powerful while others are weaker.

The next feature to consider it the RAM memory, and today we can find laptops that come with a RAM memory between 1 and 6 GB, DDR 2 or DDR 3. Then there would be the hard drive, and today we can find default hard drives with a size between 160 GB and 640 GB (with 5400 or 7200 rpm). To have a powerful laptop it is also necessary to have a good graphics engine, and today most of the laptops have Intel GMA video cards, but there are also many laptops with dedicated graphics engines, with 512 MB or 1 GB of video RAM  memory. There are some more others technical details to consider, but you can find all of this information and many other things about laptops on this site.

As we said, besides the technical details the laptops can differ from one another by the size of the display screen. This size can begin from as low as 8 inch in diagonal for some really small netbooks, and it can go as high as 18.4 inch and even 20 inch for some really big laptops. But the most popular ones are the 10 inch size for netbooks, 15 inch for the general laptops and 17 inch for the most advanced ones. So today we’ll discuss more about one of the best 17 inch screen laptop for a price of 1000 dollars. And a very powerful laptop with a price just a little above 1000 dollars (it costs 1,049 dollars) is the brand new model: HP – Pavilion Laptop / Intel ® Core ™ i5 Processor, 17.3″ Display – Aluminum, Model: dv 7-4070 us | SKU: 1016496.

And now let’s discuss a little about the features offered by this laptop. First of all its processor is one of the bests on the market right now, the Intel ® Core ™ i5- 450 M processor, that features a 2.4 GHz processor speed. The RAM memory is also very good – 4 GB of DDR 3 RAM, good enough for multitasking power and complex video games. The optical drive is the best you can get these days, a Blu-ray Disc enabled DVD ± RW/ CD-RW drive with double layer support. This one can read the next generation Blu-ray discs and can also record up to 8.5 GB of data on a DVD. As we said earlier, the display screen has 17 inch in diagonal, and it is a LED high definition display with BrightView technology and a 1600 x 900 resolution. Thanks to this display you will have a really good quality at movies, video games, and you will also be able to run multiple applications at the same time on the screen.

So far we got used with laptops with a maximum size of hard drive of 500 GB, but since this is a brand new model, from a new generation it comes with a default hard drive of 640 GB at 7200 rpm. So you have a really large disc space, where you can store thousands of songs, movies, pictures and so on. The graphics engine is a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 graphics and its keyboard also has some media control buttons that will launch different applications and functions that you use the most. And of course it also comes with a built in webcam with microphone and a 5 in 1 media reader ( that supports Secure Digital, MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO and xD-Picture Card formats). It also has most of the ports you might need, including 4 USB ports, audio ports, a HDMI port, a VGA port and others. And like any other laptop it has both wireless and Ethernet connectivity for easy access to the internet. It comes with an installed version of the Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64 bit operating system and a software package that includes Adobe Reader, Microsoft Office Home and Student and some others.

So now you know which is the best 17 inch screen laptop for a price of 1000 dollars, and you can buy this laptop and also find the complete technical details for it, here at this link . Since it is a new model, it doesn’t have any ratings or reviews yet, but after you buy it we invite you to tell us all your opinions about it here on our site, or on the site of Best Buy.

Since its foundation in 1976, Acer has constantly followed the objective of abolishing barriers between people and technology. Focused on marketing through its IT brand-name around the world, Acer occupies 3rd place in the world for total PCs sold and number 2 for notebooks, the fastest growth among the top five players.

A profitable and sustainable business model Channel type is essential for the further development of company Acer, while the successful merger of Gateway and Packard Bell complete the overview of the company’s stronger presence in the U.S. and strengthening and strong position in Europe. Acer Inc. has more than 6,000 employees worldwide. Acer laptop computers meet all the desires of the users worldwide.

Acer, the second computer manufacturer in the world, intends to increase their sources of income by opening an online store of applications and launching an e-reader until mid-year. The online store will include “hundreds of applications,” said Jim Wong, president of IT products division of the company. Acer official added that the Taiwanese giant will launch in the third quarter its own netbook, a very expensive notebook, which will work in Google Chrome operating system.

Along with providing online software and launch an e-reader, Acer will enter on the market that is dominated by Apple, the maker of mobile iPhone , or the world’s largest online retailer, Amazon.com. Through the new products, the company will increase its net profit by almost 3% over the next two years, said Wong. The online store will be open to applications from mid-year, with software that will run on the Android platform, developed by Google, currently used for Netbooks and smartphone that are made by Acer, but also on Windows and Google Chrome. Applications will be with very low prices or free. By the end of June, Acer will present his first eBook reader, which will have a multitouch screen by 6 inches (15 , 2 cm). The gadget will come in direct competition with the Kindle, from Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble Inc.’s Nook.

Acer has collaborated with BMW to design Gemstone, but notebooks have not enjoyed much success. The new design of Acer Gemstone Blue unveils the vision of “multimedia” being innovative both in appearance and especially the functionality. Gemstone was a new thing in its lines that go through the multimedia keys, touchpad and the surrounding area and create a special effect. Gemstone Blue is something else. The laptops have been redesigned, re-sized and built based on components of last generation. What impresses at the Gemstone Blue – new hinge of the display, Cinematic Surround audio system and a surface with touch-sensitive keys.

The new notebook Acer Aspire AS5740G prove to be true media stars, combining perfectly the high technology industry to provide mobile computing capacity, extraordinary, an audio-video experience that takes your breath away and provide at the same time constant connectivity. In the new series of notebook Acer Aspire, the performance of next generation and the audio-visual entertainment meet an exclusive design, materialized from innovative textures of the raw material. Acer laptop computers are not expensive and with high performance.

In a time, big laptops, with the diagonal of 15 or 17 inches, have been fashionable because it offers more “computing power” then the small ones and their batteries kept much longer than a smaller laptop battery. In addition, it is different to watch a movie on the big screen then to bother with a tiny screen. Especially for women, HP has created the red laptop HP Mini Vivienne Tam, whose design was developed in collaboration with Vivienne Tam.

HP Mini Vivienne Tam Edition 1199eq, which is part of the red colored laptops, has an attractive design inspired by the Asian culture and Western Europe also being a mixture of ancient and new, fashion and technology. Designed by the fashion creator Vivienne Tam, Vivienne Tam Edition HP Mini 1199eq is a digital portfolio that perfectly completes the clothing style of this period. Inspired by the style of “China Chic” of the fashion creator Vivienne Tam, the mini PC has a bright red design, with a burst of vivid red peony design that is reflected inside the PC.

With a screen whose diagonal is only 10 inches, a red keyboard and a bright red exterior, sprinkled with some purple peonies carefully stylized, the chic laptop comes with a cover made from a heavy cloth, embroidered in the same style as the design of the laptop. The only element that differentiates the model Vivienne Tam Special Edition Notebook PC of the HP Mini 1001TU is the exterior design because on the interior they are the same. The 10.2 inch diagonal screen has a glossy appearance, 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, hard disk with a capacity of 60 GB and 1 GB of internal memory.

The operating system is also, like the one that is in the HP Mini 1001TU, and that is Windows XP and we can say that it responds pretty good to the commands. So if you are a lover of stylish devices with glossy appearance, meant to attract attention, the HP Vivienne Tam Netbook Special Edition is suitable. If you wish, however, a netbook really effective in several areas, try other options!

Another laptop that is designed for women is Dell Mini – and is part of the red colored laptops. Dell Mini 10 is equipped with Intel Atom Processor 1600 GHz, is 10.1 inches diagonal, 160 GB hard drive and 1 GB of RAM. It weighs 1.2 kilograms and has a 3 cell battery, and the advantage is that is sold with Windows 7 pre-installed.

MSI Wind U100 is another netbook available in pink and red colors, it seems that laptop manufacturers are convinced that pink and red are colors that we like. Widescreen (wide) of the MSI’s Wind U100 has a 10 inch diagonal, high ergonomic keyboard (but how big can a small keyboard be?), the same Intel Atom processor in 1600 GHz and found at Dell Mini also, memory of 512 MB or 1 GB, hard disk drive of 120 or 160 GB, webcam built-in, 3 or 6 cell battery and many other accessories that you can found about from the MSI website.

No one should be surprised. Samsung is one of manufacturers of laptops in the market. There is a well known brand in the market, nor has many models out, but Samsung hope to make known in this area. As a result they launched a new notebook model, Samsung X360, a model inspired by the famous Apple MacBook Air. More details about the Samsung X360. Why Samsung meddle in this market, I do not know.

I think that adds up to do better monitors and televisions. That is what they know best to do. The thickness of this laptop varies between 16.7 mm and 30.4 mm, while the MacBook Air reaches a maximum of 19.4 mm. Unlike Apple, Asian producers of this notebook have equipped it with Ethernet port (network) card reader, three USB links, HDMI plus VGA video output and the fingerprint recognition system.

This month, Samsung is bringing 6 laptops, and all are part of the Samsung R series. Three of them boast the power and muscle, R780, R580 and R480 and the other three, look stylish and elegant – R730, R530 and R430. Notice the numbers, do not confuse them, because sometimes the technical specifications are different. Therefore, the Intel Core i5-520M is available for models R780, R580 and R480, so the CPU provides a driving speed to the applications, because it automatically allocates processing power where is the most needed it.

In all six models you will meet a design that is glossy gradient (Touch of Color Crystal finish), with different textures, and the casing is resistant against scratches. The HD LED displays have the following sizes: 17.3 inch for R780 and R730, 15.6 inch for R580 and R530 and 14 inch for R480 and R430. These samsung notebooks also have Port USB Sleep-and-charge for R780, R580 and R480 (notebooks can be loaded even when closed) and Phoenix FailSafe software to find laptop in case they are stolen for the models R730, R580, R530, R480 and R430. Notebooks from the Samsung R series are known for their pleasing design, for the fact that they are thin and light.

After the launch of the Samsung  N110 and N310 models, some of the samsung notebooks, N120 came among the new laptops which counts on the battery life of up to 10.5 hours with a battery that is 6-cell version. This notebook is part of the Eee PC series and is made around the Intel Atom processor, comes with the 10.1 inch display, 1.3 megapixels webcam, Bluetooth 2.0 and Card Reader 3 in 1.

Besides the low autonomy offered by the 6-cell battery, Samsung N120 has also a larger and more comfortable keyboard. N120 has the size of a 12 inches notebook, and that is why the keyboard is more comfortable than the one of a regular netbook. However, the screen remains of 10 inches, and the space around him was covered with black plastic, quite unaesthetic. Samsung N120 has a sound system SRS 2.1. The other facilities are standard for a netbook: 1.3 MP camera, Cardreader, 3 USB ports, Bluetooth.