Hello all THG members Hope you are all fine,well i though it would be good to write a FAQ for people to fill it before posting in the laptop section,and it will help others to answer more accurately and better.
So please copy and paste this questions and in the thread that you want to start and answer them there.
1_What is your budget?
2_How much screen size do you need?
3_How much screen resolution do you want?
4_Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
5_How much battery life do you need?
6_Do you want to play games with it? If so then what kind of settings you want to play your games?(Low,Medium or High)?
7_What other tasks do you want to with your laptop?
8_How much storage(H.D.D Capacity)do you need?
9_If you just want to buy from some sites that you like,please post the link of them.
10_How long do you want to keep your laptop?
11_If you like to mention some other things,please post them too.
I hope this can help people to find their ideal notebook better.
4_Do you need it to be more of a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
6_Do you want to play games with it? If so then what kind of games and at what settings do you want to play your games?(Low,Medium or High)?
7_What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video Editing, Surfing, Office Apps Etc).
9_If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post the link to them.
10_How long do you expect this laptop to last you serving your needs listed above (years, upgrade cycles)?
X_If you have specific brand preferences, mention them, but also explain why you prefer it, and explain why/if you are willing to forgo a better choice for this preference.
11_If you think other considerations would be pertinent to your purchase or advice about what laptops is a best fit,please post them too.
X_If you do not have access to US selection, then list your location and Limitations.
That would be my tweaks to the existing list.
Message edited by TheGreatGrapeApe on 07-28-2008 at 09:25:48 AM
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Hello all THG members Hope you are all fine,well i though it would be good to write a FAQ for people to fill it before posting in the laptop section,and it will help others to answer more accurately and better.
So please copy and paste this questions and in the thread that you want to start and answer them there.
1_What is your budget?
2_What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
3_What screen resolution do you want?
4_Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
5_How much battery life do you need?
6_Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games.(Low,Medium or High)?
7_What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop?(Photo/Video editing,surfing the web,playing music,watching movies Etc)
8_How much storage(H.D.D Capacity)do you need?
9_If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post the link to them.
10_How long do you want to keep your laptop?
11_If you like to mention some other things about purchasing your ideal laptop,post it.
12_Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons behind those preferences.
13_What country do you live in?
I hope this can help people to find their ideal notebook better.
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Yep and I thought stickied and locked would make it not get all messy.
We might link to this thread at the bottom for feedback, but I'll leave that to the author and you guys to decide.
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It's about time. Gets kinda old answering the same question over and over again. Thanks.
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No problems mate and thank u And the stickied one is in the top thread of laptop section and this one is for comment about that thread to make it better
2_What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
I think size is ambiguous. my first reaction is screen size. I think that is what most people put. But it could also mean ultra-portable, thin and light, tablet. . . if its meant for screen size, we should say screen size as in What screen size do you desire?Do you prefer wide screen or standard?
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3_What screen resolution do you want?
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4_Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
Is this more a way of saying: How important is portability: very important, imortant, not important, or irrelevant? or some better way to make it easeir for the respondant and the reviewer to better asses the respondant's threshold for portability
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5_How much battery life do you need?
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6_Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)?
Probably the most important question. .. could be number 2 on the list as this also influences size / portability, battery life and screen size. Or is this more of asking: Do you need discrete graphics or not?
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7_What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo / Video editing, surfing the web, playing music, watching movies, Etc.)
And then this would be asking [/i]how fast a CPU to you need and how much RAM?[/i] and then be the third question on the list.
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8_How much storage (H.D.D Capacity) do you need?
Do we ask about optical drive, too? Most have DVD-RW these days standard but there are blu-ray floating around. And some that have external drives and some that don't have anything at all *cough* Macbook Air *cough* (ok, included at any rate).
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9_If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post the links to them.
Sites or models? Or both?
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10_How long do you want to keep your laptop?
I'm not entirely sure how to interpet answers to this. Are we assuming warranty coverage or assigning subjective analysis to various OEM's build quality, or re-sale value, upgradeability, or what?
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11_If you would like to mention some other things about purchasing your ideal laptop, post them.
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12_Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons.
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13_What country do you live in?
I wonder if it's worth asking about special connectors (SD, CF, FireWire, ExpressCard) or specifically mentioning these sorts of things in question 11.
And I agree its not really a FAQ well its a FAQ from the point of view as these are question we frequently ask those seeking advice, not get asked. Although a FAQ including questions that come up from time to time might help (even though the answers are pretty much available elsehwere), specifically:
AMD or Intel?
AMD/ATI or NVIDIA?
How do I get the data off my dead laptop's hard drive?
Can I build my own laptop?
How much memory can I put in my laptop?
Can I upgrade the procesor?
My laptop doesn't turn on anymore, what can I do?
How do I manually install a device driver?
and finally
Why didn't I listen to dwellman and buy a ThinkPad?
Hope you are all fine,well i though it would be good to write a FAQ for people to fill it before posting in the laptop section,and it will help others to answer more accurately and better.
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