What is the Best Laptop for Everyday Use?

We’re here to help. We’ve spent plenty of time with the latest laptops, and come away impressed by some and underwhelmed by others. Backed by a dozen years of hands-on experience in laptop repair Bolton space, we can pool our collective knowledge for your gain.

There’s a lot you can do with a laptop, and our experts have a few tips that will help you make the right buying choice:

The latest laptops are powerful enough to handle any demanding task – and thin and light enough to carry around effortlessly. To find the right one, you just need to think about what kind of tasks you want to do with your laptop. Are you an avid photographer who wants impressive graphics? Do you like creating videos or playing demanding 3D games? Do you have specific business needs, such as a need for a touchscreen Chromebook or the ability to run virtual machines on your machine? Each of these activities has specific system requirements, so if you know what you’re using your laptop for, the search is much easier.

There are three main ingredients to any computer: The processor, the graphics processor and memory. To make things a lot simpler we’ll group them into two categories, laptops with high performance graphics processors and high-performance processors (for gaming), and laptops which manage to get by without. And they’re all going to fall into one of three operating systems.

There’s also a huge amount of people using Windows while there’s a relatively small number using ChromeOS. If you need to be fully compatible with what everyone else is doing, then Windows makes the most sense. MacOS is still very popular and it’s worth considering if you’re going to be buying any software or peripherals, as these are likely to be compatible with the Mac operating system.

For most people the best laptop for everyday use is a Chromebook. These are quick and responsive with instant-on technology, meaning you can quickly start browsing or working wherever you are, then disconnect to save battery when you’re done. They also have the added benefit of being easy on the eye as they use the popular new ‘Infinity Edge’ display that some ultrabooks use. All of this combines into a great user experience for anyone who uses their laptop for browsing the internet or writing documents.