Laptop suggestions?....

derpinitman
Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:55:45 +0000

I’m also looking for a new laptop. What I suggest looking into are ultrabooks. Currently there are about 5 or 10 on the market made by Dell, ASUS, Acer, Toshiba and some other companies i forgot about. Basically they are laptops designed for business and are therefore light (2.5-4lbs) and have relatively long battery life (most last for 7-8 hours on full charge), most also come with a SSD hard drive rather than a traditional HDD and therefore less likely to be corrupted after some jostling (Downside is SSD drives can store much less data). Also ultrabooks are very sexy- I think all of them have metal casing. Basically think mac air but the pc version. Unlike the mac air however, there are more ports to plug stuff: most have an hdmi out to plug into a monitor, a USB 3.0 which is supposedly 10x faster than traditional 2.0. This is a relatively new segment in the laptop market so they can be a bit pricey (most for around $800-1200, depending on processor type and hard drive size). But if you can wait a few months expect the price to drop for these as the new gen is set to come out as soon as May. Also intel is supposed to release the new ivybridge processor in April so wait for that to see if you want it. Besides, after ivybridge is released expect all prices will drop for the current generation of sandy bridge (i3 i5 i7 etc) processors. Seriously consider ultrabooks because they have great functionality in a light and pretty package