Sunday, December 16, 2007

How to buy Laptop

One of the good thing about this blog is that it is was the Tour de force behind writing my first technical Blog.

So besides going more on pleasantries lets go to the point...
But adding few more notes...

Three sites to compare deals on, or more importantly any electronic deals or even other things also...

deals2buy.com .... A good site to show the lowest prices going on in general...
pricegabber.com or froogle.com ...... To compare prices for some item Then sort on the lowest price that is going on...
salescircular.com ... To find which deal is best deals from store....
slickdeals.net ... For a STEAL... will only mention very good deals.. Also has a discussion board where ppl discuss........

For reburnished machine go to
tigerdirect.com
overstock.com

To read a review about the machine you are looking for....
http://www.cnet.com/
http://www.pcmag.com/
note sometimes it will not have a very close match so make it more general....

Again things to look into a Laptop in order of priority
1. Memory - Do not go below 1 GB if you want the laptop for more than 3 years...

2. Screen Size - Choose at least more than 14 inches if you want to
watch movies.. most are coming with 15"
2. CPU - I still think both AMD and Intel are almost the same... but
things to look in comparing CPU
The name of processor is sure way to find how good is it
> In Intel the cheaper CPU are Celeron and the costiers are
Centrino ( now usual a Dual Core )
>. In AMD The cheaper is Sempron and costlier is Athlon

1. Processor Cache - Still one of the costliest stuff in a computer - Also called L2 cache - Many cheaper will not have it, especailly Sempron or Celeron
2. Dual Processor -
3. Clock speed measures in GHz... Most are close to each other and
until you are real gamer or works on hig end graphics 1.6 and 1.8
are good enough

3. Operating System - I still prefer XP anyday to Vista... But I think
if you want to keep a laptop for 3+ years buy Vista... As XP will not
be supported after next year, also Vista has the wow effect. THough
atleast for 2 years you will find more softwares for XP than Vista....

4. Brand - Some brand have better features and thus the difference.
For example XPS in Dell are considered the better ones... Similarly
ThinkPad not the one from Lenova but IBM are much more better build.


As for other thing I am quite sure of two things....
1. Will be adding more to it
2. True to Moore's law, that transistor thus speed will double every 24 months, soon the stuff I say will be out of date!!!

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