Technology is changing rapidly, desktop computers were yesterday and laptops are today, laptops were difficult yesterday and now laptops are very handy. However this guide shall tour you to at least next few years of the updated technology. There are few significant facts that should be considered before you buy laptop, such as the configuration, amount, size and weight etc.
However configuration hold the highest importance of all, lets see the facts to be considered about the correct configuration before buying a laptop. The configuration consists of Processor, RAM, Hard Drive, Battery and screen size.
The processor choice can be difficult especially with a wide range of available options in the market. Choice is between AMD and Intel, I would suggest Intel any day, since it has gone way beyond AMD when it comes to performance, be it Intel dual core or the very latest core i7, you can choose anyone of them depending on how much you’re ready to spend, and nonetheless dual core is the least. If you’re looking for value, then AMD offers much better deal. But if you don’t require that kind of high-end power (or you just can’t afford it) then an AMD processor is the way to go. You’ll still get plenty of speed when you need it, and will save a pile of cash, too.
RAM can be compared to a person’s short-term memory and the hard disk to the long-term memory. The short-term memory focuses on work at hand, but can only keep so many facts in view at one time. If short-term memory fills up, your brain sometimes is able to refresh it from facts stored in long-term memory. A computer also works this way. If RAM fills up, the processor needs to continually go to the hard disk to overlay old data in RAM with new, slowing down the computer’s operation. Unlike the hard disk which can become completely full of data so that it will accept any more, RAM never runs out of memory. It keeps operating, but much more slowly than you may want it to. So buying more RAM for faster computing is necessary, buy anything above 4GB of RAM should be considerably fine.
Hard Disk space can be wisely chosen depending on your personal choice, remember everything in your computer is saved in Hard Disk, all the software, downloads to all the other stuff. In this way you should consider buying more hard disk space. Almost all the laptops today have at least 250GB and can go as high as 500GB the choice is your.
Most notebooks offer power regulation software, and almost all have the ability to change profiles using the power manager. Click on that battery icon on the bottom of your screen, and make sure your notebook is set to Balanced or Power Saver. High Performance is great if you are encoding video or playing games, but it makes your processor work harder than it has to, using more power and throwing out more heat. Battery may not give you a very long back up for instance a 6 cell battery has 3 to 4 hours of back up whereas a 9 cell or 12 cell battery has 7 to 11 hours of back up maximum, there are other ways that are responsible for draining your battery life faster, follow instructions on how to save the battery. Battery of the laptop is the major issue, since we all buy a laptop so that we can do mobile computing easily but the batteries don’t usually have long lasting back up, a 6 cell battery is standard in most of the average laptops that has 3 to 4 hours of back up. There are many reasons that responsible for draining batteries faster. Such as Keep an eye on your wireless devices, and disable them if they are not in use. If you have your Bluetooth or WiFi device running at all times, you are using chopping off useful battery life that could have been used doing something else, especially if you are doing road computing.
