PC Laptop and PC Notebook buying advice
Buying PC laptops and PC notebooks can be a gruelling task. Chances are that at some point you have been in to a high street electronics store only to find yourself in a maze chocablock with glossy lids and LED lights accompanied by a spotty sales assistant who, bless the retail stores training scheme, knows nothing about laptops.
In a variety of consumer behaviour reports the most common type of shopper is one which does things on a first thought – and so lets take for example a man in his car. This man finishes work an hour early, he has recently been given a bonus of £400 and wants to treat himself with his newly found disposable income. Whilst in his car at the traffic lights, he sees his next left is the car park for Comet. So he drives in, opens the door and is greeted with a fresh array of shiny looking gadgets to which he could –imagining them in his home– be the envy of his friends.
After much walking down ailes and checking out games he finally finds the computing section, and knowing he has a desktop PC at home, which he hates working from, decides that he wants to buy a laptop as he would much rather work downstairs watching television than be confined a single space. He then comes across a shiny Dell laptop and to his surprise sees it is only £350. ”Wow!” he thinks as he thumbles around in his pocket itching to get rid off this new found paper weighing him down ”I’ll take this one please”.
So he gets home – takes his shiny new laptop out of its box and finally sets the thing up. To his horror, or rather dismay, he realizes that he didn’t want Windows XP but in fact wanted the newer more flashy Windows 7. He then sets to work on transferring his music over from his desktop PC and annoyingly realizes that he needs better multimedia capability, as the Dell laptop keeps prompting and stopping the process when what he really wants to do is leave it and go make a cup of tea.
After around an hour and a half the man returns to find that his hard drive is too full to store any more songs (he has like a million songs, and sush, this is my story) and decides to take the laptop back and seek a refund, as the laptop he had bought was just not right for him.
And the moral of the story? Always do your research or seek advice about what you need from a PC Laptop.
To help you in your quest for the perfect PC Notebook here is a simple step guide to get you started;
1. Firstly you should decide which features are the most important for you to have in a laptop. Nobody wants the same thing out of a PC Laptop, which is why there are so many choices available to us from pretty much every manufacturer out there. One of the ways in which you could go about deciding what features you want or need is to check out what sort of activities you usually perform on your desktop PC and find out how much hard drive space you have taken up as to asses the amount of storage you will need.
2. Do your research and find out exactly which are the best laptops for your specific price range. The best way of doing this is to find an online retailer whom provides a range of laptops and then type the model number followed by ‘review’ in to Google. Review websites are vital to you getting the right laptop as they identify specific issues with all of them – whats more, consumers also write their own reviews sometimes and provide highly unbiased opinions on their own product – I like to think of this process as finding the ‘bad egg’ of the dozen you have chosen.
3. Price comparison. High street stores nearly always offer higher prices than third party retailers online and cover this up with television promotion. Do not be drawn in! If you shop around online you can find truly excellent deals on pretty much any laptop you are after. Also, lots of suppliers throw in free accessories in to a deal as to entice you to buy – so you really can find some bargains online.
For more information about Laptops, their origin and the terminology surrounding laptops check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laptop
