Laptop buying guide: To choose the best laptop for you
To buy a laptop u need to know which is the best laptop for you and what should be inside it and how big or small it should be. You should spend your money in the right product, so it does not get wasted.
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Laptops are the best tool for office work or any business-related work. It is compact enough to carry it anywhere and one can work while traveling or take it to your road. Basically, we can categorize the laptops in 2 types a professional/business laptops or gaming laptops.
Nowadays mobiles are the best substitute of almost everything, but you can’t really replace a laptops place with a mobile as typing document, office work like graphic design or programming or gaming are always better in laptops. So, what type of laptop you need a professional laptop or a gaming laptop. Here is our laptop buying guide to help you out.
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Quick tips
• For gaming laptops, the main thing is you need to keep the specs at the top end as the games nowadays are very heavy application and need powerful hardware to run it.
• For professional laptops, portability and laptop battery backup are most important as you can carry your laptop wherever you go and not everywhere you will find socket to charge so battery backup is must.
• Graphics is a main thing in the gaming laptops whereas the business laptops do not require graphics card a good processor is enough.
• The gaming laptops are quite heavy and needs cooling. While the professional laptops are thin and lightweight.
• For gaming you need a large screen whereas in business laptops 13-inch screen will also work great.
• And some other things like keyboard, touchpad, processor, and operating system.
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Choose the right OS
The first thing is to choose the Operating system in which you are comfortable to work with. Check the user interface of the OS and then choose. The most popular OS are windows and MacOS. Most laptops come with windows OS only the Apple macbook uses the MacOS. Chrome OS is from the google and is used by few Chromebooks like Samsung chromebook and the google pixelbook. Let see have a quick overview of these processor.
Windows OS
The most popular OS used by almost every brands and UI of this OS is very friendly. You can find laptops using this OS in almost every price range. Is has a variety of features like touchscreens, fingerprint scanner and dual graphics chips. The latest version of the windows also has an AI assistant named Cortana. And the gamers must prefer this OS as it is very much recommended.
MacOS
Apple’s latest desktop operating system is the MacOS Catalina. The performs similar to the windows but with a little different UI the apps of the MacOS the apps docks are at the bottom of the screen where the windows startup menu and taskbar are located. The AI assistant of the MacOS is called siri that apple iPhone uses. But with this OS do not support touch screen feature and there is no MacBook with touchscreen.
Chrome OS
The OS is simple and secure and but has limited features compared to windows and MacOS. The UI of this OS is very much similar to windows. Many of the web apps you use do not work while in offline mode. If you just need a device to surf the web, check you email and use social media then this OS will be very useful for you.
Hybrid laptops
These are the 2 in 1 laptops you can use it in both ways like a normal laptop or like a tablet by turning it 360 degree backwards or the screen detaches of the keyboard. These laptops are useful in some ways. These hybrid laptops are priced high due its 2 in 1 feature but if you do not need such laptop you get a normal laptop with much more performance in the same budget.
Screen size
Get the right screen size laptop according to your need. If you want a portable laptop then you must go for a smaller size. The small screen laptops are the thinnest and the lightest laptops. The medium sized laptops i.e.,15-16 inches are the most common size most of the laptops uses this size.
And for gaming purpose you should go for large screen laptops i.e., 17-18 inches screen and it always need to stay on desk you cannot use it on your lap and carrying this wouldn’t be easy.
Check the keyboard and the track pad
Make sure the keyboard is tactile enough and has great key travel for better typing experience. The track pad must be precise with multitouch gestures.
A professional laptop must have good keyboard and track pad but for the gaming laptop one should not rely on the laptop keyboard or track pad as gaming cannot be done with it you must need separate gaming mouse and keyboard.
Choose the right specs
The specifications are different for gaming and business laptops let’s see what the differences are: -
Gaming
The graphics is the main thing in these laptops without it gaming will be very hard in fact nowadays games will not even run without a graphics card
A high clock speed processor will be required to run high end games.
Cooling is big factor in the gaming systems as the processor turns red while running those heavy games with great graphics so a cooling pad is must.
Screen with high refresh rate for smooth gameplay.
Professional
The professional laptop is all about portability and a good battery backup. So that you can carry it with you everywhere.
The screen size should be small in these laptops as these laptops are thin and lightweight.
Should support fast charging.
Only a good processor can work well in these laptops no graphics card is required.
Keyboards are also very important they should be tactile and have a decent key travel to give better typing experience.
Have a great Idea about processors here in this blog :- The best professor for gaming laptops
Budget for the laptop
Considering the budget for the laptop in gaming segment: -
In low rang segment you will get (30k-40k): - core i3/rygen 3, with integrated graphics and 4GB RAM with a 500GB HDD
In mid-range segment you will get (50k-80k): -core i5/rygen 5, with dedicated graphics of 4GB and 8GB RAM with 1TB HDD and 256GB SSD.
In high-range segment you will get (more than 1.5lac): - core i9/rygen 9, with dedicated graphics of 8GB and 32GB RAM with 2TB SSD.
Considering the budget for the laptop in professional segment: -
In low rang segment you will get (30k-40k): - core i3/rygen 3 without graphics card, 4GB RAM with a 500GB HDD.
In mid-range segment you will get (40k-60k): - core i5/rygen 5 with dedicated graphics, 8GB RAM with a 500GB HDD and 256GB SSD.
In high-range segment you will get (more than 1 lac): - corei9/rygen9 with dedicated graphics, 16GB RAM with 1TB SSD and touchscreen features.
Can everyone afford these the high-end laptops? What if I say yes everyone can but not the brand new one but one can afford a second hand laptop with brand new condition.
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