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Notebook Purchase Review
In the early nineties few people could image the impact that
notebook would have in the computer industry. Its unique
portability made the notebook a product in a class by
itself. Soon, it became a must-have product, to those who
were constantly moving from office, home or school.
Nowadays, it is one of the best selling computer hardware
items of all times.
With a Notebook, you can carry your work around
conveniently, without having to worry about the myriads of
wires, hardware and space needed to keep a desktop. Also,
you can choose whether to work from office or home. A
Notebook is really handy in any situation.
Portability and mobility are the great advantages of having
a Notebook, or laptop. In your Internet search prior to
buying a Notebook, you will be presented with a great
variety and quantity of information. This can be quite
bewildering, so you have to know what features you need in a
Notebook. |
Upgradeability is an important consideration: the Notebook
you choose now may be the one best suited to your current
needs; but in future, you may find it necessary to upgrade
it. You will not want to invest valuable time and money in
purchasing a Notebook which you will have to discard or sell
off in the near future, because of what you might feel as
the inadequacy of your current one. When you consider
upgradeability, you have to think of memory or RAM, and hard
disk space.
The CPU, or Processor, is the engine which will drive your
Notebooks performance. So you should choose the fastest CPU
that is available, depending on your budget and on what you
will be using the Notebook for. Tasks like word processing,
emailing and surfing the Net do not require a fast CPU. But
using CPU intensive applications, such as processing
spreadsheets or playing games will work better with a fast
CPU.
The RAM, or memory is another important feature, and the
more memory you have, the better. Your Notebooks performance
will be greatly affected if you do not have sufficient
memory.
The minimum recommended these days is 1 Gigabyte of memory.
Some experts recommend a minimum of 2 Gigabytes. The more
memory you have, the better the performance and multitasking
you can expect from your Notebook.
The speed and capacity of the hard disk of your Notebook are
important, for this is where you will install all your
software and your data (documents, database, photos etc).
Make sure that you have enough room to store all your
information which can be readily accessed. 40 Gigabytes of
hard disk space is considered the minimum these days.
Consider getting a Notebook with 80 Gigabytes of disk space.
Do note that Apple Notebooks are now using Intel processors,
which means that if you have a hard disk with sufficient
disk space, you can partition your disk drive and install
both Apple Mac software and Windows software, and switch
between the two.
You also have to consider the screen of your Notebook, for
this is what you are going to be staring at, and you have to
be happy with its resolution and size. You will want a
crisp, bright screen with good viewing, especially for
photos. You can go and look at different screens at a local
electronics store, and try to figure out which size and
resolution you like best. Just be sure that the screen is an
Active Matrix one and not Passive Matrix. |
The
other features you will be looking at to connect to your
Notebook are external devices such as a mouse, printer,
portable disk drive, scanner etc. Good luck!
This article is under GNU FDL license and can be distributed
without any previous authorization from the author. However
the author's name and all the URLs (links) mentioned in the
article and biography must be kept.
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About The Author:
Written By Roberto Sedycias
This article can also be accessed in
Portuguese language from the Article
section of page
http://www.polomercantil.com.br/notebook.php
Roberto Sedycias works as IT consultant
for
http://www.polomercantil.com.br
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