Laptop Buying Guide : Understanding Laptop Classification

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Laptop Buying Guide : Understanding Laptop Classification

Just like cars, laptop are classified into few criteria. for cars, they are Honda city and Toyota Vios for subcompact car, Civic and Corolla for compact car, Accord and Camry for large family car, CRV and Fortuner for SUV and so on. Laptop also classified in similar way.

The chart below describe laptop classification and it’s corresponding model.

Laptop Classification
	Toshiba	Acer	HP Compaq	Dell	Lenovo	Asus	Sony
Netbook Small, compact netbook PC, Suitable for non cpu intensive task	Mini Netbook	Aspire One	HP Mini	Inspiron Mini	Ideapad S Series	EEE PC	P Series M Series
General Purpose Laptop Mainstream laptop, able to do most task. Suitable for general usage. Budget wise.	Satellite	Aspire	Pavilion Compaq Presario	Inspiron 14 15 Studio	Ideapad G Series Ideapad Z Series	A Series	E Series S Series
Business Laptop Business class laptop usually have feature for business such as vPro, hard disk sensor, biometric scanner and encryption for security. And may have better build quality/More robust than mainstream laptop.	Tecra Satellite Pro	Travelmate	EliteBook ProBook	Latitude Vostro	ThinkPad Ideapad V series (small business)	B Series P Series PL Series	Z Series
Ultra Portable Ultra portable are light and compact laptop, have long battery life and may lack optical/dvd drive. Some ultra portable with low voltage CPU for longer battery life, but not as fast as general purpose laptop.	Portégé	Timeline		Latitude E4000 Series	ThinkPad X series (Business) Ideapad U series	U series	Z Series X Series
Gaming/Desktop replacement laptop These laptop have high performance hardware and dedicated graphic adapter making it suitable for advance gaming and task require high performance hardware. Usually have bigger screen and full keyboard with num pad. Some model have blu ray drive.	Qosmio	Aspire 8 Series	Envy	Alienware Studio 17 (desktop replacement)	IdeaPad Y series	G Series (Gaming) K Series (Desktop Replacement)	F Series

Netbook

If you need a very small netbook just for casual web browsing and some light work, Netbook is for you.

General Purpose Laptop

If you are a student or you need a general purpose laptop able to do most tasks, General Purpose Laptop is for you.

Business Laptop

If you want a laptop for your business, and you want it reliable and with management and security capability, Business laptop is for you.

Ultra Portable

If you work while travel, you need long battery life while traveling, Ultra Portable laptop is for you.

Gaming/Desktop replacement Laptop

If you want a laptop that can play advance gaming, get a gaming laptop. If you want a laptop that have big screen, full keyboard with num pad and performance close to desktop, go for desktop replacement laptop.

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