| Selecting right laptop computer with appropriate | | | | Netbook’s are sleek, light weight and does the |
| configuration and affordable price depends on how | | | | job a student would like to pretty fairly. Students |
| clear you are about your computer usage, in other | | | | generally like to buy cheap laptop computers that can |
| sense matching your requirement to the one with | | | | deliver what they want and some kind of ruggedness |
| appropriate features and price. Since its inception | | | | as well. The kind of features or specification a |
| almost 20 years ago the first stop for cheap laptop | | | | student should go for would be Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 |
| computers happen to be computer shops, malls and | | | | Ghz processor speed, 300 GB Hard Drive, 2-3 GB |
| IT bazaars, however this trend has completely | | | | Ram, DVD burners, wireless networking and standard |
| change over the last at least 5-7 years as online | | | | multimedia stuff |
| shopping started to take momentum and increasingly | | | | Business User |
| popular. | | | | Business is unthinkable without extensive usage of |
| Identify your need as what kind of user you are? | | | | computer and what better option a business user can |
| We can classify computer usage into different | | | | have than having a good laptop computer. As a |
| segments i.e. Home User, Student, Business User (of | | | | business user you need a laptop which is sleek, light |
| course there are other categories of users as well i.e. | | | | weight, high speed processor, huge hard drive and |
| Gamers, Multimedia Pros but we are just taking the | | | | large RAM with complete wireless and multimedia |
| broad users). Now let’s discuss each of these | | | | feature. If your work involves basic office work i.e. |
| segments in bit details | | | | word document, excel spread sheet and power point |
| Home User | | | | presentation, emailing then you don’t need a |
| Every day more and more home users are turning | | | | heavy duty laptop computer. In light usage you will |
| laptop user and making laptop computer their main | | | | have lot of option for cheap laptop computers, low |
| PC as home users use their computer to do different | | | | end laptops with just basic features. For high end |
| kinds of work i.e. email, surfing internet, keeping in | | | | users who run mission critical applications, present |
| touch with friends & family, paying bills, online | | | | demos to clients, compile or read complex reports |
| shopping, entertainment, music and list goes on. If | | | | there are plenty of options as well. For power |
| you fall into this category of user then you perhaps | | | | business user the ideal configuration would be Intel |
| need a laptop with large hard disk, an average | | | | Pentium Core 2 Duo processor with speed of 3.0+ |
| processor speed and normal RAM i.e. Intel Pentium 1.0 | | | | Ghz speed, 500 GB Hard Drive, 4 GB Ram, large |
| Ghz processor speed, 100 GB Hard Drive & 1 GB | | | | display of 17 inch, Graphic Card, Memory Reader, CD |
| Ram with all other multimedia and wireless features | | | | DVD, Wireless, Bluetooth |
| & 15 inch display should be fine. | | | | All the above three categories can find plenty of |
| Student User | | | | options as far as brand is concern i.e. Dell, HP, |
| It’s not possible to study without having your | | | | Toshiba, Sony, Acer & Apple. Each of these |
| own computer and laptop computer is becoming | | | | brands has a perfect choice for the category you |
| obvious choice for students as they would like to | | | | falls in. You can find cheap laptop computers or |
| carry it to their classroom, home, and hostel or | | | | cheap laptops sale by simply browsing different deals |
| where ever they want. A lot of students are | | | | and shopping comparison web sites. |
| switching to use Netbook rather than Notebook, as | | | | |