Laptop, Computer, Tablet and Smartphone is very precious things in this era. All of us with our own work need Laptop, Computer, Tablet or Smartphone with a great performance to support our work better. In other story, If you re a millionaire it is so easy to get a best laptop, just buy the higher price and the most powerfull laptop you will get it all.
But you will never grow if you just give all to your moneys. Use your brain..
In this post I will talk about three most important things to know before buying a new Laptop, Computer, Tablet or Smartphone and what real purpose of these parts.
In analogy world.. For example, you have new bicycle. Bicycle have some important part, those are heels, body, steer, and brake. That parts have their unique effect and use, same as laptop.
In laptop, we need greatvspeed, good multitasking, fast internet, better sound, record, high definition display, smooth key, and other.
But you do not need to bought ALL in ONE high specs laptop, it will ruin your money hahahah... So you need understand the part by part to get a better result and less money for sure.
Let us start from most..
Processor (Chip)
If you think about speed in computer you will also think about
Where is the speed came from? Now think about your brain, how about having 2 brains, or 4 brains, or have 8 brains? It will give you a incredible thinking process and speed. For 8 brains you able to do 8 math question in one time, so fasttt...
Also for laptop's processor, you will get high speed with a greater processor. For intel, Intel inside dual core have 2 subs, and intel core i7 have 8 subs or brains. So it will be a huge different between dual core and core i7. And also have a great cost difference.
Do not forget, each core have their own specification so becarefull.
Processor needed to process some task, it mean if you have a great process task you need better processor. For example, design using photoshop need less process than gaming, for same memory used. Processing data mean you do more and more click, move, and do something with your process.
In design the process used the most in rendering or exporting file.
RAM (Random Access Memory)
RAM (Read Access Memory) from wiki :
Random-access memory (RAM /ræm/) is a form of computer data storage that stores data and machine code currently being used. A random-access memory device allows data items to be read or written in almost the same amount of time irrespective of the physical location of data inside the memory. In contrast, with other direct-access data storage media such as hard disks, CD-RWs, DVD-RWs and the older magnetic tapes and drum memory, the time required to read and write data items varies significantly depending on their physical locations on the recording medium, due to mechanical limitations such as media rotation speeds and arm movement.
In simple thing RAM is a temporal memory. You can not save something in this memory permanently, it will deleted on shut down. Fell useless? no, this part imortant, you computer will not able to launch without RAM. The process by CPU or Processor saved temporaly in RAM.
In purpose, if you are drinking your mouth is like RAM, it save water for a several time and then going in to your body. In computer process that shown on your display is saved on RAM, all process in background saved in RAM, and your video on watch is saved in RAM while on play.
So.. For gaming RAM is needed to save your game process, if you play a 2gb game not all of your game file will stored in RAM, just the process. But for design in photoshop, SAI, after effect, etc, all of your design process, your layer, your music, your photos are saved in RAM while designing.
But RAM unlike processor that have more expensive cost to buy, RAM need less. And also, average laptop have 2 slot of RAM, but your processor have their max available RAM, so if you have too many RAM storage it will not cause effect because processor can not process that.
My dual core laptop have 32gb max RAM, and other core i3 have 16gb max RAM. This max size depend on what processor it is. You can check your max RAM storage with some step in my next post.
So becarefull before selecting a new laptop depend on that max RAM storage.
Video Card (GPU)
A video card (also called a display card, graphics card, display adapter or graphics adapter) is an expansion card which generates a feed of output images to a display (such as a computer monitor). Frequently, these are advertised as discrete or dedicated graphics cards, emphasizing the distinction between these and integrated graphics. At the core of both is the graphics processing unit (GPU), which is the main part that does the actual computations, but should not be confused as the video card as a whole, although "GPU" is often used to refer to video cards.
Why i write video card into three of the most important thing in laptop? Because my laptop fail in this part. sad
Video Card or better know as VGA card is important to get a high detail on your display. This card needed in both design and gaming.
For design, you need better Video Card to get a better look design on design process, for video editing this part will more important than editing photos.
For gaming, you need this part more if you play a high graphic game. Gaming need better video card for their graphic, effect, enviroment, and UI. If you just focused on gaming, you should buy the newest VGA card for best result. And i think all of newest version of game need some VGA requirement before able to play. So this part needed to be better.
Thats all
Yeah, thats all three of the most important things to know before buying a new computer, laptop, or smartphone. Hope this explanation can help you more. See you next post
