Wednesday 18 August 2010

7 Steps to Pick The Right PC

Most of the people usually get confused when they have to buy a PC for there are hundreds of different brand and series out there. This guide was made in order helping those who want to buy a PC and unsure which one will be suitable for their tasks and needs.
This gude contain seven steps whic are "do-able" and when you finish each of the steps, you'll realize how easy they are. Here they are:

1. Do not get overwhelmed by the huge amount of sites and PCs offered at each store or web sites you meet. Focusing on what you need with this PC. Do not start with comparing the prices but focus on considering what you and also your family will want to do with the PC. This is the first step to pick a PC with good value and provide the right level of facilities to use years to come.

2. Choose the operating system (OS) suitable for you. There a two mainstream OS : Microsoft Windows and Apple MAC. In the past days MAC provide more powerful softwae and did things other PCs was not so good at. This is no longer stricly true, although MAC still looks very good and integrated perfectly with other Apple-made technologies such as iPhone and iPad. In these "seven steps" this could be the most important, for this step immediately narrows down the choice.

3. Pick which one you want between a desktop or a laptop PC. This should be easy for the most of people. A desktop is best use for office when you need pemanently connected to printers and other peripherals, desktop also is easy to up grade and a smart choice for gaming purpose. Laptop is best for people with high mobility but also wise choice to use around a house with Wi-Fi connection.

If your main purpose are gaming, rendering or graphic editing, you will need the most expensive processor and graphics card. Thus, a desktop will be the best choice, since a gaming laptop usually cost twice of a gaming desktop do, also a desktop is more flexibel in up grading.

4. Buy it ONLINE!! Don't go to shopping center if you want value. It's uncommon that PCs bought from stores are good value. A PC life span in short in terms of model and series, and many seen in the shops are not so up to date. It will be better to buy PCs from specialist web sites.

You will need a few days for the delivery, but don't wory your stuff being broken because the big-name shippers nowadays work very well and rarely a stuff be broken in the process. Even if it happen, you will have the seller  to collect the PC and replace it with a good one.

5. Visit  the top name on line vendor's websites. If you aren't confident enough to choose by your self, buy a well known brand PC from one of the biggest companies. Some of them are  Hewlet-Packard (HP), Toshiba, Dell, Acer, Sony, etc. Just remember that it would be very unlikely these days to get a poor deal from any of these big-name companies. By buy it on line, you will see that the price are more reasonable and sometimes you'll find offers unavailable in the shops.

6. How much will you spend? Don't forget to set your budget. If you have huge amount of budget you may looking for a PC with gaming specification which will ensure your gaming satisfaction. If you have limited budget, get PC wth the most opitmal function depend on your needs.

7. Search online for the detail. If you find a term unfamiliar then search on the internet to collect more information of it. You also could search what is the standard spesification of the most PCs these days.

Hope with these seven steps you'll be more understand how to pick a PC that is suitable for you and your family. Don't let your focus of finding "the right one" distracted by the huge amount of choices out there in the market. Just simply be sure with what you need and it's all done.

2 comments:

  1. If I buy a PC I leave it up to my brother or my boyfie, I only know a little about these stuffs.. (-_-")

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  2. When you bought a PC don't forget to take it home, do not "leave" it... :D

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