Looking For a Laptop?
Is your computer getting slower and slower? Has it stopped running the most up to date applications including design and gaming? Are you tired of waiting long times for your laptop to boot up and shut down?
How about buying a new laptop?
Although a seemingly daunting and expensive task, buying a new laptop has become much easier for home users and much less of a budget crisis. As well, the relatively new dual core technology gives a great boost in performance with less of a strain on your wallet.
The Studio 17 from Dell is an amazing deal, at $799 it offers a Dual Core 2.0 GHz processor, 4 GB memory, integrated webcam, 250 GB Hard Drive, and a 17 inch LCD screen, with plenty of room for upgrades. This honestly is a steal, and with many options to upgrade components, it’s a good deal for people who do simple tasks to moderate gamers.
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Lenovo also offers many laptops for the variation of users but unfortunately offers less flexibility within each model. Right now at Lenovo, the ThinkPad SL500 is being offered with 1 1.8 GHz dual core processor, a 15.4 inch screen, 1 GB of RAM, and a 256 MB video card from Nvidia. If there’s one thing to be careful with many thinkpads and Lenovo products overall is the commonplace of integrated graphics which can drastically reduce your computer’s performance on programs that are not even that demanding; also, just because it does not say it has an integrated graphics card, you should not forget to make sure.
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Apple also brings to the market the sleek and sometimes over priced designs of a MacBook. Well suited for any task, the MacBook Pro comes with a 15 inch screen, 2 GB of RAM, 256 MB Nvidia graphics card, and a built-in camera; however, the price tag is $2,099, for which one could get a much better pc laptop from other manufacturers. The suite that comes with a MacBook can sometimes be invaluable, especially in different lines of work, so if necessary, a MacBook is still a great buy.
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HP has really brought it to the laptop scene as of late with many customizable options and amazing bargain prices. The CQ50-108CA from HP brings great quality, customer support, and performance to the average user; it has a 1.9 GHz dual core processor, 2 GB of RAM, and video memory up to a total of 895 MB. It also boasts a bunch of small included features such as an integrated webcam, Altec Lansing speakers, and a lightscribe DVD+/- RW writer. All this comes for just $679.99, a real steal for laptop’s today.
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Overall, laptops, dual core technology, video cards, and RAM have all gotten much less expensive over the last few years, and as HP, Lenovo, Dell, Apple and other laptop manufacturers battle it out for market share, right now is a great time to buy a laptop that will be at mid to high range performance and which will not burn a hole in your wallet.
P.S. Once you buy a laptop, check out this article on how to make your battery last as long as possible.
Provided By: www.CorradoComputers.com
Written By: Corrado Cioci
Published: August 18th, 2008
