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What to Look for When Buying a Personal Laptop Computer

By Jennifer Crawley

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Published: 25Mar2010
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If you have been just using a desktop computer for your computing needs, getting a new laptop could open a window to a brand new world. You can increase your productivity and work on your computer no matter where you are. But how do you find that new notebook that will do all the things you need it to do? What kind of features do you need? Do you need a lot of disk space, a high-end graphics card, or a lot of memory? Before buying a new notebook computer, these are some of the things you will need to consider.

When you are looking for a new laptop, the size and weight should be a major factor. Other things you want to look at are the CPU, RAM, hard drive storage, DVD/CD drives, graphic cards and other peripherals. The bigger size notebooks have the advantage of being faster and more powerful, but will be heavier and less portable.

Many notebooks on the market come with Dual Core central processors that are much faster than the single core CPUs (like the Sempron or the Celeron M) and will allow you to do things much faster. If you want an even faster notebook, then you can get one with a Core 2 Duo or even a Quad core processor, but they are more expensive. A notebook with a Dual Core processor would be enough for typical notebook users.

Hard drive storage is another important factor when buying a notebook. If you are planning to store a lot of music, pictures, or videos on your notebook, then you will want plenty of storage. You will also want a DVD/CD +/-RW drive if you are planning to burn your own music on CDs or videos on DVDs. Some of the more expensive notebooks even come with a Blu-ray player so you can watch high definition movies. If you plan to use your laptop for heavy gaming, you would want a laptop that has a separate, instead of an integrated graphics card.

The amount of memory the notebook comes with is another consideration when choosing a notebook computer. The more memory it comes with, the more things you will be able to do and the faster it will be. The average notebook today comes with about 2 to 3 Gigabytes (GB) of memory. Some can be upgraded to 4GB and the newer ones with the new CPU processors can be upgraded to 8GB. These can be easily upgraded if you know where to find the deals and you know how to upgrade it by yourself.

If you know where to look, you can find some amazing notebook deals on the various shopping deal websites.

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