Checking out for the specifications and purchasing a laptop as per your need could be very confusing if you are not well versed about technology, laptops and its specifications. On the top of it, the confusion and chaos increases if you need to purchase the laptop online because of your geographical or timing constrains. So here in this article, we shall try our best to cut the clutter about buying a laptop, especially from an online source or an e-commerce website.

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Things to look out for:

First thing first! Before jumping ahead with the tips of purchasing a laptop online and making the payment, let us first check out the purpose/need of buying a laptop, specifications or hardware required, budget for buying the same, etc.

– Purpose

Finding out the purpose of buying a laptop is very important as, without being very clear and precise about it, you will end up buying a wrong product with wrong specifications and wasting your hard-earned money! So, from the below mentioned wide categories, just check out and choose what do you best fit-in!

– Students:

Would usually need a laptop with good screen estate (as you’ll mostly use it for reading ebooks and creating assignments, etc). Plus availability of a average quality graphics card would help you to play games and watch HD movies and pics while at leisure.

– Professionals:

As you’ll be mostly using powerful and heavy applications from your company, you are suggested to get a laptop with high RAM capacity (say 3GB or 4GB), huge hard disk space, having screen size of at least 14 inches, etc

– Traveller:

A compact, light weight and handy stuff, something like a netbook or a mac book pro (if you have a budget of at least $1200) is something is most suitable for your use!

– Gamer:

If gaming and time-pass remains a priority and purpose for you, then you are highly suggested to keep aside a good amount of money and look out for laptops with high speed processors, a good graphics card from nvidia or other reputed brand and a HD screen would surely be a plus point for better viewing experience.

-Requirement / Specifications:

– Screen size:

As per your need and suggested screen-size in above points, you can check out various models available. If you are a frequent traveller and needs an ultra portable laptop, then there are laptops (also called as netbooks) with screen size starting with as small as 11 inches which goes to as large as 15 and 17 inches for higher and bulkier model laptops. So, we again warn you to be very precise about your requirement and the average no. of hours you will be spending in front of the screen and then choose the appropriate screen size for yourself.

– Processor:

The latest the processor technology, higher will be the processing speed of the computers and laptops. There are models ranging from Pentium processors, Dual-core, Core2 Duo, Core i3, i5, i7, etc. If you are a starter or mid-range user, than Core 2 or i3 processors should be good enough whereas i5 and i7 are advisable for professionals and hard-core users.

– Memory/ hard disk:

Hard disks are the storage devices of the computer where all your datas get stored for future retrieval and usage. So you can go ahead with hard disks ranging from 100-250 GB if you are a student and needs to save only few books and presentation. Similarly, professionals have options to go for higher capacity hard-disk like 500 GB or a TB (tera byte = 1024 GB).

– Graphics card:

Graphics capabilities are usually embedded to processors by defaults for regular TV/Movie viewing, etc. But if you are a gamer or a professional who needs high quality graphics usage, then a dedicated graphics card is always suggested for you.

– Battery backup:

Most people prefer using laptops because of its capability to use even without external power. And the amount of time you can use a laptop without external power is completely dependent on the battery quality of your laptop. So make sure the laptop manufacturer guarantees a good amount of battery backup.

-Brand:

If you are a newbie and don’t have much idea about laptops and its specifications, we shall suggest you to prefer a branded manufacturer or supplier instead of going with a local or assembled ones. This way you can ensure timely redressal of complaints, better service, etc.

Online V/s Offline:

Many friends, colleagues and relatives I’ve met earlier, often remains confused and afraid about buying a laptop online. But if you properly ensure several things mentioned below, believe me, purchasing a laptop (or almost any electronics or gadget) online, would be a breeze. Plus you get the added advantage of saving lots of time, comfort and schemes like buy now pay later, wherein you can keep paying the amount in installments after purchasing the product.

Checklist for purchasing laptop online:

– Reputation of the web store or the seller:

It is very very important to make a check on this thing, as your shopping experience would completely relate to the type of web store or seller you are purchasing your product from. Always make sure that you are purchasing via a genuine or reputed website and never forget to do a google search with the keywords like “review of store name or website name” etc which would end up with good enough results relating to the quality and genuinely of the store you are about to purchase goods from!

– Delivery Method & time:

Check for the delivery method or the courier used by the seller, whether your area is serviceable by the courier company, the time it takes to delivery it to your area, etc.

– Payment method, payment gateway, etc:

Last but not the least, make sure you are paying through the payment via a genuine and secure site (look for https instead of http on the web URL of the payment page) and also take care that you do not choose to save your bank account or credit card details on the website.

If you take care of the above points, your online laptop buying experience will surely be hassle-free and save you lots of time. Not to mention, these all things would be with the convenience of sitting at home! Do let us know if you have any other points to be shared and whether you find this guide useful!

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