Help on Buying a LAPTOP. Review on Buying a Laptop / Notebook

Please make sure before you make a purchase, what are your exact expectations from a laptop. You might be a very frequently travelling guy who want to carry very less or you may be a person who wants a mini entertainment system with you alwaize.

If you are looking at the lightest part of it please take a note of the following.

1. A powerful processor sufficient enough to process your mailing applications and documentation work.

2. Plenty of Memory

3. 20 to 40GB Harddrive

4. 13+ inches display

5. Sharp Active Matrix display

6. a CD Rom Drive (fixed preferably a multi bay option so that you can plugin a hardrive in lieu of the CD)

7. On board Ethernet and Modem

8. The weight : lesser the better

9. Floppy drive : Preferably external

10. Docking preferred

11. Speakers: Added advantage

12. Smart card and PCMCIA

13. Trackpoint and touchpad.....preferably

14. USB

In case if you are looking a mighty machine look for the following

1. The fastest CPU available in the market

2. Plenty and Plenty of Ram

3. Lots of Harddrive

4. Geforce of Better Display with a minimum of 32MB +

5. The best soundsystem with the verybest speakers like Harmon Kardon or JbL

6. 15'' Display is a must(look at the 17'' offering from Apple)

7. In built DVD+FDD+CDRW Combo

8. Ethernet

9. Modem

10. USB + Firewire

11. PCMCIA

and dont worry about the weight