Choosing The Right Notebook - A Buyers Guide

By: Harry Love

Notebooks - Finding the Right System to Meet Your Needs

A computer is a major purchase and should not be taken lightly,
especially if you are purchasing a notebook computer. There are
a number of factors that need to be considered before you even
get to the store to take a look at what is available.

The most important thing is to decide what are the tasks you
would like to be able to do with your notebook, is it going to
be just for work, or home use. Are you going to need it to be
able to play memory intensive games? Once you have decided all
these things and you have internet access take a look at some of
the various types of notebooks available. Review sites are some
of the best places to check out what notebooks are good for
what. Some of the things you do need to consider are the monitor
size, memory, processor, graphics, drives, hard drive, and
software.

Larger monitor size are excellent for people who need to have a
lot of different windows open at the same time or who like to
have their fonts and icons on the larger size. Memory, this
refers to computers Ram. Depending on the types of programs you
are planning on running this will be an important consideration.
More Ram means the more programs can be open at the same time.
If you are just going to search the web, you will not need as
much Ram as someone who is planning on doing graphic design with
their notebook. The processor is another consideration. Just
like with Ram, the more you plan to do, the larger this needs to
be.

If you are plan on gaming with your Notebook, you will
definitely want to pay attention to the graphics card. This
determines just how well things are rendered on your monitor.
The better the graphics card, the better the rendering. There
are many games that will tell you the type and size of card
necessary for play check out the requirements before purchasing
your notebook. Notebooks come with a wide variety of drive
options if you just want to do things like watch movies or run
CD's than a CD/DVD rom is probably enough. If you would like to
burn data then a CDRW might be what your looking for and if you
need to burn a lot of data or would like to burn movies, then a
DVD burner is something you should look into adding to your
Notebook. Hard drives are based also on need. If you are
planning on handing a lot of data, get a larger capacity hard
drive on the other hand if you are only planning on saving
things like word files, a higher capacity hard drive may not be
necessary. When it comes to software, there are a wide variety
of different packages available. Consider your needs and look at
getting the notebook that has the majority if not all of the
software you will need.

Now that you have the basics on choosing your next or first
notebook, you might want to check out some of these top
manufacturers MSI, ACER, IBM, HP, or FUJITSU.

About the author:
Harry Love writes on behalf of Spire Technology
(http://www.spire.co.uk/) and specialises in I.T and A.V
equipment, with his experience in cutting edge technology and up
to the minute product knowledge he prides himself at being at
the forefront of the technology industry.