Uses include school, home, work from home, business/enterprise, creators/designers, videographers/editors and more. The right Windows laptop for you is the one that meets your needs Note: We use Microsoft Surface models for graphic examples only. If you don’t want to read the entire guide, there is a one-page checklist at the end.
Give it to the salesperson and stick closely to avoid upselling tactics. Android Desktop (a Windows-like experience) is improving, but ARM-based processors are not up to the speed and power of X86.Ĭhrome OS looks good, but it is really for light users that are prepared to do most things in the ecosystem. What about Android or Chrome OS?Īt this stage, we cannot recommend Android or Chrome OS tablets and laptops. These skills are reasonably easily transferable to the MacOS and Chrome OS equivalents or LibreOffice – free and for those that can’t use Microsoft Office. It is also a reasonable expectation that secondary school students have a functional knowledge of Microsoft 365 (MS Office), including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and a browser. There is a Microsoft Surface Pro 9 with 5G and an SQ 3 ARM processor starting from $2339. I use one when travelling, and it is perfect for video playback, email, browsing, Word etc., but not enough for heavy use. It can do 99% of the lighter productivity things (read more here) that you need, with the benefit of 4 or 5G, longer battery life and lighter formats.
You may hear of Windows on ARM (WOA), and it is a version of Windows that runs on ARM (smartphone) processors. You can upgrade this free to full-fat if you wish. Windows ‘S’ is a restricted OS version, more secure and can only load Apps from the Windows Store. Full-fat means the operating system has the complete range of software to do everything you expect a ‘PC’ to do. This guide is for ‘full-fat’ Windows as it has about 80% of the global desktop/laptop market share, MacOS has 15%, and Linux/others 5%. Then there is the build quality, warranty, and repairability.Īs professional users, gamers and videographers will know precisely what they need we focus on consumer laptops and a good, better, and best scenario. Sure, there is a screen, central processing unit (CPU), graphics processing unit (GPU), memory (RAM), and Storage (solid state or spinning hard disk). We show you how to determine your needs and avoid marketing hype.Ī laptop is more than the sum of its parts. You may have high needs (performance, capacity), but you can’t have a low price (mutually exclusive). The right Windows laptop for you depends on your needs and budget.
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