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One thing about buying your first notebook, laptop, or desktop replacement is that you will never have to go through the experience again. By the way, is there a difference between a notebook and a laptop? There use to be, but from what I've seen in the market place, these two terms have been tossed around into a meaningless soup. Don't give it a second thought - if you're buying one for the first time, you have better things to worry about. I call them notebooks. If you're use to desktops and have never researched the notebook computer technologies, making an informed decision can be extremely frustrating to say the least. In the end I got just what I wanted (what I needed anyway) and I am happy. In fact I am writing this post on it. I nearly settled for less by rushing the buying process and trying to save a dollar or two. Don't let that happen, you're going to spend a pretty good chunk of change regardless, so you may as well end up happy with no regrets. Help I can certainly help if you're the same kind of buyer and have similar computing needs as me. Then again, if you're not the same kind of buyer and have different needs than I do, my choices may still enlighten you in regard to what you do or do not need/want. Narrow Down Your Search You will find that the huge selection of makes and models shrink considerably as you narrow down your search by making a list of your wants and needs in regard to hardware, software, notebook size and such. I think that deep inside, most of us know what we really want. There was a machine selling for over two thousand dollars sitting next to the notebook I ended up buying. I wanted it really bad and for a moment actually considered buying it, but that would have been silly. Unfortunately, cost does matter to most of us. Choices - making a list First I made a list of what I could live with in a notebook computer, and then a list of what I actually wanted. As you can imagine the price difference was huge, but I knew that my new notebook computer was in the middle of this price range. This made me aware of two things:
I wasn't going to get exactly what I wanted because I refused to dish out that kind of doe. I was going to spend more than I had planned because I needed a certain amount of performance.
Here is what I wanted going in:
Display: large - 17.3 or larger. Video: graphics card with dedicated memory - no on-board graphics. Audio: decent sound card and speakers. Processor: 2 or 4 core 64bit with virtual technology (AMD or Intel) I ended up going with the Core i7 CPU by Intel. 4 to 8 GB RAM - preferably the newest DDR3. A healthy array of external ports.
I also wanted to buy in person rather than have my new notebook computer shipped. I didn't like the idea of my computer going through any more shipping than it already had been - not after seeing what some of my Christmas packages looked like last year. To bad there wasn't a new notebook computer in one of them. Nothing on this list needed to be extremely high end. This small list narrowed down my search to an acceptable number of notebooks. It was then just a matter of what was in stock and available. The end result - my new notebook computer The end result for me was a nice, fairly high end workstation/entertainment center. Just what I needed and most of what I wanted. I spent more than what I had planned in the beginning, but far less than what I would have if I had not listed my wants and needs in the list above and started my research from there. I hope this has helped you in some way. Happy computing...
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