How to select the right laptop
Buying a laptop can be as simple as looking for a machine that fits your price range or as complex as looking at the detailed hardware specifications and vendor-specific features. In fact, with the majority of machines based on either an AMD or Intel platform, differentiating between models, much less brands, can be a daunting task.
To make it easier for you to choose a model based on your needs, we have taken a closer look at the various offerings from the major PC makers and see just what makes each lineup tick. Check on the links below for a roundup of laptops sorted by brand.
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Quick tips when buying a laptop:
Though it may be tempting to get a Netbook as a primary machine, the single-core Atom processor is unsuitable for serious multitasking and computing-intensive tasks. For that, it would be better to spend the money on a dual-core budget laptop which may be larger, but with far superior performance.
Though some retailers have used them interchangeably, Pentium Dual-Core and Core 2 Duo chips differ significantly. The former is cheaper and used mainly in budget laptops, while the latter has a larger L2 cache and offer faster performance.
If the machine has Hybrid Graphics capability, it means the laptop is able to automatically switch between the integrated and discrete graphics chipsets.
Unless you are running a 64-bit Windows or Mac OS X operating system, the maximum RAM your laptop can use is 3GB, no matter how much actual memory is installed. So don't be surprised if the specifications say 4GB RAM, but the notebook can detect only 3GB.
A business laptop may be more expensive than an equivalent consumer model, but the former is usually hardier with security and harddisk protective features to preserve mission-critical data.
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Intel Core 2 Duo,
Laptop Computer,
Dual-core,
Fujitsu Ltd.,
Acer Inc.
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