A Summary Of Notebooks Aimed At Making You A Little More Intelligent

Notebooks have come on leaps and bounds in the last few years. Currently technically speaking they are practically on a par with desktop PCs. The attractiveness of the notebook is its portability, allowing the user to create documents whilst on a train to work or play a game on the way home. The laptop has made it much easier to get things done whilst on the go.

Since laptops are a lot smaller than desktops, the need for the bits and bobs inside them had to be smaller. As such repairing or upgrading them became more difficult.

Processors had to be specifically designed for the task of being in a laptop. They were required to consume less power, produce less heat and be physically smaller. The first chip on the market was the Intel Celeron. These days though the technology has advanced to such a stage that the technical specification between the notebooks and desktops is practically the same.

As I said the only question is where you will be using the PC. If I had neither and had the choice of either, first I would go for the desktop. Simply because I know it will always be there, I don’t have to worry about losing it. Don’t get me wrong though I do see the advantages of the laptop it’s just my personal circumstances don’t yet warrant the need for one over the desktop.

I’m just going to give you a brief outline of the things you should look out for when deciding to buy a laptop. This will make it a little clearer as to why there is such a great price difference between different laptops.

The main part of the laptop is the processor as is with all PCs. This is the item that performs tasks such as opening word or playing a song. Basically the faster the processor can run the faster the PC will run.

The RAM is like a dinner plate that you can place tasks on for the processors to eat through. Therefore the more RAM, the bigger the plate and as such the more the processor can eat at a time. I hope you understand my little analogy there.

Most laptops come with dedicated graphics cards. These are built into the motherboard and whilst not as good as standalone graphics cards still do a reasonable job. You need to beware with these though and distinguish between advertisements A standalone graphics card will may say that the system has a 256Mb graphics whereas built in graphics will be 256Mb onboard graphics. The difference is that the onboard graphics takes its memory from the RAM and the problem with this is if you buy a laptop that does not have a lot of RAM or you know you will be using most of it your new laptop will run considerably slower.

I hope you feel you know a little bit more about notebooks and that you are able to now distinguish between different specifications and why the prices vary so much.

Andrew Johnson is an expert in electronic products. If you would like further information about types of notebooks or are looking for a trusted computer retailer please visit http://www.ebuyer.com