Monday, November 23, 2009

Getting A New And Still Cheap Laptop

By Matthew Kerridge

It's no secret, the world is pretty much run on computers. You can get a wealth of information up to the minute by accessing the right website at the appropriate times. But this may not always be convenient, because your life will not always keep you pinned behind a desk. So, if you don't have one, now might be the time to look into getting a laptop. You can customize it to your liking, and it can be the bare minimum in terms of technical specifications, to something that makes your home computer jealous. But if you are looking to start reasonably, you are probably looking for a cheap laptop.

Before you rush out and grab a laptop though, you should make yourself aware of the various options and the price changes that will likely come with the variations of these options. Some of the customizable features include: the size, hard drive and memory capacity.

The size of the laptop is likely the first thing you notice when you are shopping around. This matters to many folks because they want to be able to comfortably take it where they want to go without compromising the quality of the screen or the computer itself. So the best advice when you are looking for a cheap laptop is to start small. The screens go as small as 8. 9" and remain fully functional and legible. Remember: the bigger the screen, the bigger the laptop, and the bigger the price.

The hard drive is quite simply how much your laptop can store at any given time. Lower end storage capacity is about 4-8 GB, but laptops have as much as a Terabyte (1,000 Gigabytes) of storage space. Granted, you can expect to pay a pretty penny for the convenience of having this much storage. As far as a cheap laptop, you should be looking more towards 8GB, and less towards the TB.

Memory is a crucial component of any computer, desktop or laptop. The memory indicates exactly what the computer can handle doing simultaneously at any given moment. The more memory, the more the computer is able to handle in terms of a workload. Low-end laptops are about 512MB - 1GB.

You can get a cheap laptop all over the Internet or through select stores. A good place to start on any electronics is Ebay, you can also find some pretty great deals on sites like: www.newegg.com and www.buy.com.

If you know what you are looking for, getting a great laptop at an incredibly low price is not something of fantasy. You have to remember, the more you want the laptop to handle and do, the more it will inevitably cost. - 22787

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