First I have to apologize to the
people that read the blog. Work and Life have a way of throwing you
a curve ball here and there. To give you some perspective one what is
coming in the future, we have a few great blogs lined up for you over the next
few weeks. Some are centered around hardware others around troubleshooting
common place problems, but we WILL be back on schedule of Friday postings and
incremental weekday postings here and on our Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus
pages (which you can find in the bottom of the post).
Without further ado, let’s talk
about sub-classes of laptops. There are many different types of
laptops with more and more popping up all the time. Each has a different use case
scenario, but they all fit into one or more of the archetypes I am about to
list. To make the transition between them easier I will be giving an
example of each type to guide you along the path. * Disclaimer* If
I have classified something that you don't agree with or make a mistake, please
let me know.
Let’s start it off with what everyone has at
least one of in their household, normally reserved for budget-conscious people,
the Economy notebook. The concept of an economy notebook is always one of the
fastest changing classifications. This is because as technology advances the
parts that were high-end 1 or 2 years ago are replaced with newer and higher
end products. The first laptop that I purchased myself (with the help of my
Battle Buddy Martin) fit very neatly into this one. For those who are wondering
it was a Dell B120, which I still have running Linux Mint
and working nicely might I add. These laptop are very low side & middle of
the road parts and are inexpensive. The do many things well and easily and
are generally for web browsing, low impact gaming and
Microsoft Office type products. They can do more, but the higher (depending on
the specs) you go in terms of software the more you will strain the system and
the more noticeable that strain will become.
Next up we have the thing that most of the adult
work force is familiar with the Professional laptop. These are what companies
like Dell and HP market to businesses and home office users. They are generally
powerful machines but are made specifically for portability and power in a
light(ish) package. These will generally have later model processors (Core i5 and Core i7) and mostly utilize integrated graphics
on the CPU and have good amounts of RAM (6 GB or 8 GB). These are designed with
mid to upper level parts to facilitate higher functions
like analytic work and are a staple IT shops everywhere.
Now is time to get into the meat and potatoes of
laptops. Two of the next three sections revolve around what most people think
about when they think high tech laptops. The third is what I consider a
"dead" class, but might be making a resurgence....maybe.
Let’s start with my personal favorite class of
laptops: Gaming Rigs. Gaming laptops are horribly bulky in this day and age,
with the possible exception of the Razer's Edge, and there is
good reason for this. The parts are almost entirely high end parts, think of a
souped up version of a Professional laptop, but this is where the similarities
end. These laptops have dedicated graphics card, extremely high resolution
displays, high fidelity audio, TV tuners and all other manners of cool add-ons.
This is why they are so heavy. These are made for high end gaming, Adobe
Photoshop and Lightroom, Audio Synthesis and all mannerisms of high level
computing. These are the literal can do anything laptop, but you are going to
pay the price for all the amenities. To me they are worth it though.
A sub category of these are slight less expensive and less powerful
Entertainment laptops, which I own myself. I haven't
given them their own section because they fit very nicely here.
The Ultrabook is the (mostly) new kid on the
block. It has an emphasis on being a light weight powerhouse laptop
while being both "beautiful and artistically inspired". The new breed
of them have all sorts of cool moves like turning into tablets and being ultra-thin.
They come equipped with a similar disposition to a Professional notebook but
with the aforementioned lightness and cool features. They are
breaking onto the scene in a big way especially since lots of laptops are going
touch screen, which is where the really shine.
The last in this list is a dying breed of
laptops that Google might be helping make a resurgence, the Netbook. Netbooks
are small ultra-portable laptops that are more on the economy side in terms of
power but much smaller. Because of this they are never really that powerful,
that is until Chromebooks came along. Chromebooks started showing up a little
while ago and come in 3 flavors, two on the low end and one on the HIGH end.
The Samsung and Acer C7 Chromebooks are perfect for you student types out
there, cheap and will do everything you want it to do, except game, unless
browser games work for you. The Pixel on the other hand I wouldn't personally
bother with, it’s too expensive for what it does, but WOW the screen is great
and the design is top notch.
That closes us out for this week and for the
perceptive one's out there who noticed I didn't bring up Macs, don't worry the
will get there spot light very soon...
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