6 key features to demand in your next laptop

There is a pool of choices when you head out to buy a laptop. Being confused is just a natural occurrence. There are different types of laptop available at different prices, having various features. Here are six key features to demand in your next laptop that you plan to purchase:

Size

If portability is something you can’t compromise on, you might consider purchasing a notebook that has a small screen size and lightweight as well. Any laptop that is marked as an ultrabook would be a perfect pick as they are specifically designed to be light and slim. A laptop with a screen of about 12.5-13.3 inches in size and a weight of about 1-1.5 kg would be a good buy as well.

Screen quality

If you are going to work long hours every day, you would want to ensure that you get a laptop screen that is comfortable to look. Many laptops these days offer the touchscreen feature which makes the laptop greasy. Greasy screens lead to reflections. So you might want to consider to buy a laptop that doesn’t have a touchscreen feature to avoid the greasiness and the reflections. Also, the resolution matters, a 1920×1080-pixel resolution (aka Full HD) should be a minimum standard to look for while purchasing a laptop.

CPU

While buying a laptop, it is hard to go past any of Intel’s Core-based CPUs like Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 as well. These CPUs are the best for multitasking and even multimedia projects. Notebooks have Core i3 based CPU that is found in entry-level systems. While on the other hand, Core i5 is the CPU for a majority of mainstream computers. For those who want the best performance for your laptop, the Core i7 based systems is a perfect buy.

RAM

You need a minimum of 4GB RAM or more to get the best performance out of your system. More the RAM, more application you can run on your laptop at the same time. Also, it makes quick access to more data by the system at any point in time easier.

Storage

Hard drives used to be the thing, but these days they are mostly out of favor, especially for light and sleek laptops. This is because hard drives can be a bit slow, somewhat bulky to carry around, and also they produce noticeable heat and noise. A solid-state drive (SSD) on the other hand functions much faster than a hard drive, it also runs silently and can be installed in a manner that doesn’t add too much weight to the laptop or make it bulky to use. The only drawback of SSDs is that they don’t offer much capacity. You will probably be stuck with a drive that is either 128GB or 256GB in size. Even laptops that provide an SSD storage of 256GB are pretty expensive. The moderate size to stick to would be 128GB SD for your new laptop. This will provide you the speed with which it loads all your programs, access your data and how quickly it can boot up your system as well. Some of the new laptops these days also contain the NVMe solid-state drive which is much faster than the traditional SSDs. However, they are comparatively expensive as well.

Battery life

Battery life of a laptop is affected by various factors ranging from the screen’s brightness, the screen resolution, and the tasks that you run. If programs are running on your laptop that needs a lot of processing, or if you stream a lot of videos online, or you transfer a lot of files over your wireless network, then your battery will drain a lot sooner than what the manufacturer has quoted.