After reading various technical information and after studying the prices of the various laptops on the market, when the right opportunity arises, perhaps from the flyer with the offers of the shopping center, you go to buy the new laptop . Buying the best product at the lowest possible price is the main objective.
However, when you arrive at the mall and you can touch the computer you want to buy, there are still some things to consider to avoid cheating and not be fooled by the sensational offer or by the salesman.
It is not to discourage the salespeople of shopping centers such as MediaWorld, Trony, Panorama, Expert and others and you do not even want to make a bundle of all the grass but, the seller does his best, tries to push the customer to spend money and sometimes he is not an expert in the field at all.
Given that these are questionable advice and not objective factors, the things to avoid when going to buy a laptop are :
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1) Before cheering for the offer of a laptop for 300 Euros, look carefully that it is not single-core .
By now the computers are all multicore (dualcore or quadcore) and it is really crucial to have a CPU that works with two or four independent processors rather than one.
Although a single core processor is adequate and sufficient for some basic tasks, it suffers a lot when opening more complex programs, when working with multiple software together and in playing videos in HD.
Even web pages with flash animations could prove heavy.
Laptops with AMD processors indicate the number of processor cores with an "X2" or "X4" label.
This label does not appear if the laptop has a single-core processor.
Intel does not have a single mark of recognition, but, most laptops that mount an Intel single-core CPU use the Intel Celeron 900 processor.
Conversely, although the performance of the singlecore notebook is poor, I must say that those looking for a 300 Euro laptop are probably not too concerned that it is fast.
In the article on things to know before buying a computer there is the analysis of the technical characteristics on laptops and fixed.
2) Watch the screen quality and don't take the laptop too big.
To begin with, if you want a laptop, you cannot expect it to have a monitor the size of a television, otherwise it will also become difficult to carry it around.
Laptops also have disadvantages compared to desktop computers, first of all that it is not possible to update the hardware components and, therefore, the screen cannot be changed if it does not like it.
To check the quality of the laptop monitor you have to turn it on in front of your eyes before buying it .
After turning it on, open a web page or a text document with a white background and check carefully, closely, that there are no small lines that seem to cross the screen either vertically or horizontally.
This is a problem known as a " screen door effect " or " mosquito net effect " and is very annoying (it shouldn't appear on new monitors but you never know).
Also take a look at the screen resolution which is generally 1366 × 768, standard size for 15.6-inch laptops.
There are some 16 "laptops that have the same resolution and this is not good because the image quality is lowered.
Read the article on buying a monitor for more details.
3) It is useless to consider battery life among the factors of choice.
Walking in the corridors of the mall, reading the main characteristics of the laptops, you will find that they all have a battery lasting about 3 hours.
In case you have to read declarations lasting between 8 and 10 hours, you must not absolutely consider them truthful.
The fact is that there are no battery standards agreements to date, so computer manufacturers can be free to advertise by emphasizing things like battery life.
In general, I would say that laptops are able to get 75% of the battery life declared on the box.
In addition, the battery life depends on the use you make with the computer, if you watch movies or if you run heavy programs, it will last less and less.
4) Refuse the extension of the warranty proposed by the seller.
The extended warranty plays on the sensitivity of the person and on the fact that spending 1000 Euros is a salary for many people.
It therefore becomes easy to give in to the pressure of the seller to pay an additional guarantee.
It may happen that a glass of coke is poured over the computer or that the laptop flies through the window; but how likely this is "> These can be USB and HDMI cables for printers, external hard drives, memory cards and other things.
So, I can assure you that things like cables should never be bought at shopping malls because they have much higher prices than those charged by small specialized electronics stores and compared to online stores.
If you agree with the above or not and if you have had negative experiences during the purchase of a laptop, leave a comment without problems.
In another article there is the ranking of the best and most reliable laptop brands .
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