On buying a Notebook
January 8th, 2007 | by A T M |Saturday I was there at Koramangala ezone and Jayanagar with my friend Aju, who was buying his notebook.
What one should look for buying a notebook.
Here’s list of things from top of my head
- Core Duo processor
( Intel or AMD, choice is yours. AMD powered ones are little cheaper.
64 bit processors are the new age processors.)
- RAM
( Minimum of 512 MB RAM, anything lesser can annoy you easily.
- DVD R/RW
DVD read writer is becoming the order of the day, before sony’s blu-ray disc technology sweeps over.
- WindowsXP home edition. This is pre-loaded in the notebook. WindowsXP pro will be available in high end notebooks.
Got to see a WindowXP India starter edition, in low end notebooks.
Specially made for cost sensitive customers. Just hate that Poor man’s version of windows.
It looked like pieces of bread thrown at street dogs.
- Other features to ask for include
802.11 a/b/g for wireless access
Bluetooth support
USB port
In-built speakers
Internal 56k modem
More or less all the laptop which are 40k+ do contain these features.
This is what we bought finally. Compaq v6000 for 46,000/-
I must share this. I also bought a notebook.The same day. 6-subject notebook from Mahavir publishers 
One notebook, which I cannot live without. I had a difficult time finding this particular note book for all these days. Finally hit it by accident at Jayanagar shopping complex. The last piece of this notebook in the shop. How lucky me.
