Many people put in their minds: “Tomorrow i will go and buy myself a new laptop” and the next day they spend 3/4 of their day going from shop to shop and gathering info on the laptop offers. Either they check out the offers and go back and buy the laptop or they go home and before going to sleep they check out the offers again just to make sure they choose the best one and the next day they buy the laptop they chose and end up by buying a laptop that in 2-3 months will regret that they bought it.

Lots and lots of people are smart-headed and think they can do it on their own and don’t even call a friend or ask a relative who has experience on the IT&C field to go with them and help them choose. And this way the sellers in stores try to screw you over as much as they can.

I was in a PC shop looking at some accessories when a guy comes in looking for RAM, he specifies that he wants DUAL DDR and specifies its frequency. The seller takes out 5 types or RAM and starts showing it to him…as i recall the ram’s brands we’re: Kingmax,Geil,chrossair,syncron,elixir.

Ofcourse Geil was the most expensive so the buyer from start said that he doesn’t want it. He was in quite a dilemma when the seller started saying: ” syncron is a very bought ram type and all of our customers we’re satisfied and even i got that type of RAM and never had problems” (its price was almost as much as Kingmax was) So the naive buyer bought the syncron ram and he went home happy with his brand new ram. The seller smiled and went back to work, imo he said to himself: “Whoohoo!! i screwed over one more guy”

DON’T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE, IF YOU HAVE THE POSSIBILITY ASK A FRIEND WHO HAS SOME IT&C KNOWLEDGE TO GO WITH YOU WHEN YOU BUY PC RELATED STUFF!

Not lets get back to Laptop related stuff - Here are some points that you should consider checking before buying a Laptop:

The Laptop’s design: Make sure you like the design and it fits you. I’m not talking about just the external looks of the laptop and its color, i’m talking about how the keyboard elements are arranged, the way the screen is attached to the body and the screen size. Older Toshiba laptops(for example Toshiba Satellite Pro 6000 - check image) don’t have a touchpad(like at regular laptops) they have a small button in the middle of the keyboard from where you control the mouse pointer.

The Laptop’s performance: Make sure you set your budget and choose a laptop according to it. you can’t expect to buy a latest generation laptop for a few hundred bucks. Check out the RAM, the video memory and the hard drive specifications. Set your goal for what you will use the laptop, if you will use it for advanced applications that eat much resources than make sure the laptop’s performance can match it!

Networking: Check out if the laptop has wireless networking port/bluetooth/infrared port. Wireless network can be crucial if in your city there is setup a wireless hotspot(from where you can access the internet wireless)

Use your budget wisely: Don;t buy a hyper-super laptop if you can’t take the maximum out of it, buy a laptop that will fulfill a little more than your needs.

Operating system: Most shops sell along the laptops Windows Vista, if you hate/don’t like/don’t want to use/don’t want to pay 250$ more then try to talk to the sellers to take that off.

And again: remember to ask friends to help you if you are unsure of your purchase!

Good Luck!