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Likewise, don’t become obsessed with battery life, resolution, processor speed. If you’re on a budget — and most people are — you’ll need to learn to balance a variety of hardware. Make sure the laptop you want has the features and hardware you need, anything else that comes in under budget is just a bonus.
Ultrabooks have risen to become one of the most popular types of laptops, and it can be very tempting to automatically assume they are the best choice for you. They’re lightweight, small enough to fit easily into a briefcase or backpack, and the prices of many models — especially Chromebooks — are some of the lowest around. What’s not to love?
While most people will find the performance to be more than enough, creatives and professionals might need workstation-class hardware to handle the intensive software needed for their job. In particular, you may need something with a powerful graphics card, while most 13-inch ultrabooks use an integrated one.
Tablets, 2-in-1s, and laptops are distinct categories. They aren’t interchangeable. While you can perform many tasks with a tablet and keyboard that you can with a laptop, the similarities soon end. Tablets remain far more constricting when it comes to multitasking, fast web browsing, using complex apps, or running demanding software. Their keyboards can be overly cramped too.
Just because something has a screen and a keyboard doesn’t mean that it can do everything a laptop can. This is the opposite mistake of getting focused too much on one spec — if you ignore all the specs, you’ll start making assumptions about what the machine can do, and that’s dangerous territory.
Laptop graphics are important if you plan on using your laptop for a lot of entertainment or gaming, but their graphics systems aren’t always well understood. Don’t just look at the amount of video memory in gigabytes (GB) when comparing graphics cards, because this does a poor job of telling the full story.
Instead, first look to see if the GPU is integrated, discrete, or (more rarely) a combination of both. An integrated GPU connected to the processor is fine for most average laptop tasks and very common, especially in more affordable laptops. But if you want the best performance you can get, you will want a powerful discrete GPU — and as with desktops, the most popular options are from Nvidia and AMD. Pay attention to how much VRAM is specifically allocated to the discrete GPU when making comparisons, as well as whether the GPU is a special edition (lower power) version, like Nvidia’s Max-Q variants.
Buying a laptop is complex, but if you do so with care, you should land yourself a great piece of kit. Our reviews here at Digital Trends are a good start, where we walk you through every feature of a notebook and how it performed in our hands-on testing, from display quality to performance. We take an in-depth look and evaluate every laptop we receive, including everything from the user interface and the display to performance and overall design.
Remember though, buying the right laptop for you means just that. Read everything you can about a prospective purchase, but when it comes time to break out your credit card, make the purchase that makes the most sense for you. And shop around for the best price too. You might be surprised what kind of deals you can find.
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Microsoft confirmed previous rumors that it’s upcoming Windows 10X operating system once intended for only dual-screen devices, will be coming to laptops and tablets, too.
According to a post penned Panos Panay, the chief product officer of Windows and Devices at Microsoft, the flexibility of Windows 10X has enabled the company to focus its resources “toward single-screen Windows 10X devices that leverage the power of the cloud.”

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