In 2010, apple set a milestone in the history of portable computing, when jobs quickly conquered the mobile computing market with an ipad that he himself did not know for whom, and for a long time the majority predicted that the ipad-led tablet computer could replace the laptop as a standard for mobile computing. In fact, the wish of the majority has not been fulfilled today。
Of course, it is certain that flat tablets are booming, even though they are everywhere, but laptops are still the main force of mobile computing, not only highly optional, but also stable and easy to use, most importantly hardware, and microsoft’s surface series of products have proven their performance to be important, which is beyond doubt。
To be honest, it is not so easy to choose a laptop that suits you, because there are significant differences in the design and hardware of each brand, and you may have to consider portability, or simply being able to move to bed-based entertainment, etc., and what are the general considerations for purchasing laptops? Here we share some experiences that may not necessarily be applicable to anyone, but that will be helpful for unknown newcomers。
Mac or pc
The choice of mac or pc is no longer controversial, and many people buy laptops without faith, but there is always a choice between them, and mac and pc now have a lot of common functionality that should be available in computing devices, and there are significant differences in design and software。
Apples have a strong brand protection awareness, and product upgrades are usually very cautious, and all standards are set by apples themselves, while any manufacturer in the pc field can create pcs of different specifications. This creates a personalized display of mac equipment. Apple will tell you what you'll get for this mac, and all macs come from the same ecosystem. And that's why apple technical support is always available, even for one-on-one solutions。
High-quality design is one of the symbols of apples. The mac product was designed to be elegant from the outset, and this extends to the apple operating system mac os x. Apple computers typically pre-pack a special set of software, but each application has a task for them, either editing videos or processing music. The latest version of mac's fastest-used hardware is normal, so users who wish to have sufficient computing performance will not be disappointed, and mac will be stable and good in daily use. But you know, apple mac isn't cheap。
Because of the strict design criteria for apples, both amateurs and pros, the choice of mac can quickly select its own formula, but the rigidity of mac also means that the equipment has very little freedom to customize, and a hardware set is often used permanently, with little room for upgrading. In addition, apples sell only a few different types of aircraft over a given period of time, with the old-type selective cut-off, creating advantages for the new money。
By contrast, the diversity of the categories of pc is somewhat incredible, with more than a dozen manufacturers worldwide designing and manufacturing pcs, with uneven quality and retail prices, most of which depend on product positioning and branding. There are not a few pcs with more performance than mac, and many oem manufacturers even customize pcs for consumers for certain purposes, such as for games or mobile offices. At the same time, pc selects windows as an operating system, with more practical experience than mac os x, and many mac software is available on windows. Also, windows is usually a standard for game development and many business-critical projects。
In any case, mac and pc are more dependent on ecosystem choices, or on which platform you're loyal to. If you want your computer to be free, or if you have a specific task that requires hardware customization, then pc will certainly choose more。
Touch screens: useful or stabbing
The widespread use of tablets and smartphones is also accepted, so many laptop manufacturers gather touch screens on their home products. In fact, windows also began to consider touch screens extensively from windows 8, either in the navigation column or in the menu options, and the layout is more suitable for touch screens, so you can find a lot of practical gestures on windows 8 flatboards to improve operational efficiency。
However, the touch screen is also a double-edged sword, with obvious disadvantages. First, laptops with touch screens are more expensive than conventional models. Second, the touch screen operation is not perfect in many places and is prone to undesirable use. Also, in traditional laptops, touch screens are less intuitive than tablets, and you may need to lean forward to better touch screens, and many people feel uncomfortable。
Some oem manufacturers have also recognized the problem, so the newly designed laptop, many keyboards with touch screens can fold to the back of the screen and simulate tablets for easier use. But these designs are of different quality and you may need to be careful when they are used. It needs to be noted that windows 10 has made much progress, but microsoft is more about traditional mouse and keyboard optimization, and you can find online searches that show users complaining about windows 10 having less touch than windows 8. Taken together, laptops with touch screens may not really be that important。
Type of laptop
While there are a large number of laptop models, they can be broadly divided into several broad types, especially according to specific uses and appearances. When you buy laptops, it's important to choose the type that suits you. Here we have some examples of the main types。
Introduction
There are high and low prices for laptops, and many manufacturers produce laptops with a price of less than $3,000, designed specifically for users with simple functions, for word processing or web browsing, etc. To save money, primary laptops are the most appropriate, but they are really designed only for basic tasks, without powerful hardware, graphic processing, very small memory and storage, and do not expect very fast multitasking operations, or large games。
There's one important point about entry and laptops, which is solid hard drive. We believe that, however cheap this laptop is, the impact of solid hard drives on performance is significant. Besides, you might need a keyboard and touchboard that fits anthropotechnical design, the better you can use it。
Ultrapolar
Intel is keen to set standards for product hardware, so there have been numerous pcs for intel reference design over the years, such as widely known online versions. Ultrapolar is also one of the intel reference designs, which is extremely easy to access, but not at the expense of performance, internal hardware has stringent standard requirements, such as no mechanical hard drives and minimum interfaces, and the only hardware that plays a decisive role is the intel's cool wisdom processor, because performance is not weak, and the price of an ultrapolar design is often expensive。
2 plus 1 equipment
This is the type of equipment that has emerged in the last two years, the main feature being the ready ability to switch between tablet and laptop forms and the design focus on ease and convenience of tablet computers. There are probably two forms of appearance, one with a zipper keyboard that can be turned back to the back of the screen, and the second with a complete separation of the keyboard and screen, which is directly a tablet computer。
Two-to-one devices provide the best genericity so that you do not need to buy tablets and laptops alone, but they are not the best mobile devices, and some of the shortcomings are equally obvious: weight and pricing. Similarly, the price of two-to-one devices is often several times higher than that of traditional laptops。
Business laptop
Suits and latte coffee appear to have become a sign for business people. However, they also need a laptop as a symbol of identity in order to match their career. Many business laptop computers usually brag about in-house specialized software and specific hardware, such as for video editing, demonstration or teleconferencing. Owing to the large amount of work that commercial laptops are used directly to get to and out of work, it is important to have a longer duration and not be of too poor quality, at least to cope with long-term travel problems. Business laptops are often very expensive, given their powerful functionality and quality。
Type of desktop alternatives
Undeniably, desktop products remain highly attractive, as they can have powerful performances and are used as a more responsive office than laptop computers by connecting large-scale monitors and full keyboards. However, the reasons why desktops cannot be mobile devices are also obvious, requiring considerable space, inconvenience, independent power, etc。
For unstinting consumers of desktop performance and office comfort, they usually choose laptops with some desktop advantage, typically with a screen size of more than 15 inches, thus reducing the portability of such products, and the possibility of moving office space on a regular basis also requires consideration of a complete backpack。
Since it can be used as a substitute for desktops, larger screens have much better visual experience in viewing films and videos, and may also have a good sound system with a certain level of entertainment at home cinemas. In addition, large laptops are designed with large touch panels and full keyboards with digital keys。
