In order to purchase a suitable laptop, it is necessary to avoid common mistakes that can be made when choosing it, and to determine why the future owner needs it.
Buying a laptop can be described as a paraphrase of a folk tale: if you go to the right, you will find performance, if you go to the left, you will get portability. The selection process is quite complicated, but if you can find the perfect balance for yourself, you will find a reliable assistant in your laptop.
Laptop for home
One of the most common mistakes people make when choosing a laptop is buying it for home use. Despite all the seeming convenience from this kind of operation, a laptop does not even to a small extent have all the advantages of a stationary computer. If the performance of current laptops can be as good as desktops, then the size and resolution of the screen, the response time of the laptop matrix lags far behind the desktop monitor. In addition, a stationary computer with similar characteristics will cost at least a third less.
Universal laptop
There are no universal laptops. Each of them have their own goals. For example, if you need a laptop with a seventeen-inch screen and a powerful battery, you must be prepared for the fact that it will weigh at least 3.5 kilograms. With this weight, it already becomes unsuitable for convenient transportation and turns into a desktop computer.
It is advisable to choose a laptop with a screen diagonal of 13-15 inches, which weighs no more than 2.5 kilograms. It is suitable for surfing the Internet, watching movies on the go and working with simple programs. For more complex purposes, dextop should be chosen.
Video card
The video card is not the most important element of the laptop. An integrated video card is enough for office tasks. If you plan to play games or watch movies in FullHD quality, in such a situation you cannot do without an external video card.
Battery
Be prepared for the fact that if you want to buy a laptop with a powerful battery, this will weigh it down by at least 200-300 grams. In addition, a laptop with such a battery will be outweighed in its direction. You need to be ready for this or be content with a standard battery, which usually holds about 4 hours.
Winchester
Cloud drives or inexpensive portable devices such as external drives are suitable for storing data. Important data should not be stored in a single copy on a laptop, despite its apparent reliability. It works in rather difficult conditions, so data recovery can turn into a daunting task.
When choosing a hard drive, you should pay attention not to its volume, which can significantly affect performance, but not to speed and reliability. The ideal option would be an SDD disk, which is now bundled with most laptops.
