Cheap Laptops - A Boon Or Bane?

Cheap laptops/bargain laptops hits the bullseye of budget segment people. It is not wise to blindly buy cheap laptops assuming the reason the prices of components that make up the laptop have dropped and hence they are cheap. Impostors are lining up to make the best of this scenario. They try to sell $150 laptop as the one worth $400 by adding up glossy interfaces and shiny models. Since it's a tough task for a non-techie person to sort out the difference they are the easy preys. Adding to this, Microsoft has joined hands with hardware vendors to support Vista interface in 128 MB integrated graphics. This feature enabled in a lowed model misleads the naive user and they are chiseled.
To prevent this,

The buyer has to check whether the hardware supports all of these-as Pixel support-2.0,support for graphical operations, support for lighting and transforming. Few features in vista are supported if the laptop has good integrated graphics card. This again misleads naive and they assume it has a good memory. Finally they end up cramming when they install new software.

Fancy terms like AMD DUAL CORE and high resolution monitor are utilized in favor by these swindlers. DUAL CORE have equal processing power of the Centrino and the major difference is they eat up more battery. Since this is a new feature it attracts preys. High resolution monitor doesn't mean the actual high resolution but with respect to vista again.

Hence it is very important for the bargain laptop buyer to search for an honest merchant and do proper analysis to save him from buying an utter crap beautifully wrapped with jargons. Thus a few analysis and planning will definitely help you buy a better quality laptop at a cheaper price.

By Thomas P