Laptop Purchase Guide

To purchase a laptop is very exciting as well as very confusing. Our minds always want to select the best laptop in our budget. So what we do we call our friends, our relatives, try to read on the internet. But after spending so much time we don’t find our perfect answer. In this Laptop Purchase Guide we will solve your problem.

This guide gives you the best way to select the perfect laptop as per your budget.

Below are the top 6 essential things which we have to consider while we have decided to purchase the laptop.

1. Processor:

This is the Brain of your laptop so you must be very cautious while selecting the processor for your laptop. The more the power of the Processor faster it will be. So you must try to select a more powerful processor for your laptop.

There are two types of processors available in the market.

Intel
AMD

Intel is having a number of processors in its family. Here are the list and the specifications. The list is from top to bottom. The top is the most powerful and the bottom is less powerful.

Intel Processors are consuming less battery means you will get more battery backup for Intel Processors.

Intel Processor List:

Processor	# Cores	# Threads	# Max Frequency	Use Case	Power
Core i9	6-8 Cores	12-16 Threads	Upto 5.30 GHz	HardCore Gaming and Heavy Processing like Video Editing.	Best
Core i7	6-8 Cores	12-16 Threads	Upto 5.10 GHz	High End Gaming, Multitasking, Content Creation	Best
Core i5	4-6 Cores	8-12 Threads	Upto 4.8 GHz	Home and Business PC. Fast startup time.	Better
Core i3	2-5 Cores	2-8 Threads	Upto 4.6 GHz	PC for everybody task. Quick charge and Long Battery Backup.	Good
Pentium	2-4 Cores	4 Threads	Upto 3.8 GHz	Light Use Task such as Browsing, File Editing etc.	Good
Celeron	2 Cores	2 Threads	Upto 2.9 GHz	Light Use Task such as Browsing, File Editing etc.	Good

AMD Processor List:

Processor	# Cores	# Threads	# Max Frequency	Use Case	Power
Ryzen 9	6-8 Cores	12-16 Threads	Upto 4.4 GHz	HardCore Gaming and Heavy Processing like Video Editing.	Best
Ryzen 7	6-8 Cores	12-16 Threads	Upto 4 GHz	High End Gaming, Multitasking, Content Creation	Best
Ryzen 5	4-6 Cores	8-12 Threads	Upto 3.6 GHz	Home and Business PC. Fast startup time.	Better
Ryzen 3	2-5 Cores	2-8 Threads	Upto 3.5 GHz	PC for everybody task. Quick charge and Long Battery Backup.	Good
Athlon	2-4 Cores	4 Threads	Upto 3.4 GHz	Light Use Task such as Browsing, File Editing etc.	Good

2. Hard Disk:

The second most important point to check while purchasing the laptop is Hard Disk. This is the storage for the files which you want to store on your laptop.

Hard is having three types.

HDD – Hard Disk Drive
SSD – Solid State Drive
SSHD – Solid State Hard Disk

HDD – Hard Disk Drive

This is an Electro-Mechanical Digital Storage Device. Each Hard Disc Contains Stack of High-Speed Spinning Discs with Recording Head Flying over each surface. The head rotates extremely fast to retrieve the data from these discs.

Pros:

Cheap
Big In size
Easily Available

Cons:

This has mechanical parts so life span is less
Less speed
Requires more power

Typical Hard Disk Size for laptops is 1TB.

SSD – Solid State Drive

SSD stores data in Semiconductor cells. This is the latest technology which changes our world a lot because of its speed.

Pros:

High Speed
Durable
Long Life Span

Cons:

Cost is High

SSHD – Solid State Hard Drive

This is the new technology in the laptop world that provides both storage technologies.

At the startup of the laptop, it uses SSD and for normal use, it stores data in Hard Disk. In this way, you get both speed and storage for a cheap price.

Different Between HDD Vs SSD Vs SSHD Comparison

HDD VS SSD VS SSHD Comparison:

Point	HDD	SSD	SSHD
Long Form	Hard Disk Drive	Solid State Drive	Solid State Drive
Performance	Good	Best	Best
Prize	Cheap	High	High
Durability	Less	High	High
Access Time	Slow Typically 5.5-8 ms	Negligible 0.1 ms	Negligible 0.1 ms

3. RAM – Random Access Memory

RAM is used to store the applications which are currently running on your laptop. When you open any application it gets loaded into the RAM.

So more RAM is always useful to load the application faster way.

RAM comes with DDR4 type mostly. They are typically 4GB, 8GB, and 16GB in size.

4. Display

While considering display you need to consider two factors.

Size – Which is typically measured diagonally.
Resolution – HD, Full HD 1080p and Ultra HD and 4K

HD, Full HD and Ultra HD Comparison:

Point	HD	Full HD 1080p	Ultra HD
Resolution	1366*768 Pixels	1092*1080 Pixels	3840*2160 Pixels
Image Quality	Good	Better	Best
Prize	Cheap	Medium	High
Use Case	To watch Movies, Basic Graphics	To Watch HD Movies	To watch high resolution games

5. Battery

The battery is a very important factor while selecting the laptop. The main purpose of the laptop is that we should be able to carry it anywhere.

That means sometimes we will be at a remote place where we don’t get the power supply in that case if your laptop battery is good then you will able to access your laptop for a longer time.

6. Operating System

Operating System is the piece of software which interacts with User Interface and your laptop hardware.

There are different types of Operating Systems

Mac
Windows
Dos
Linux
Chrome OS

Operating Systems Comparison:

Point	Max	Windows	DOS	Linux	Chrome
Usage	This OS comes with Apple Laptops only. This OS is preinstalled and has very smooth performance.	This is a very common OS. It is not preinstalled on every laptop. You need to purchase it if it's not preinstalled.	This is a very basic OS. If you purchase the laptop with DOS OS only then you need to install other operating Systems like windows or linux.	This is mostly used by the programmers. This is an open source operating system.	This is only available with Chrome Based Laptops and required internet as it is a cloud based Operating System.

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