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To me, polls like thse are pointless. In part, that is because most regular participants of this forum are very experienced users with a good understanding of pcs, and this sort of person will be more choosy.
Out there, the main criterion of Joe Public will simply be price and budget. This means the majority will buy low end to medium end off the shelf laptops, with main selection criteria beiing drive storage and screen resolution. Only a tiny fraction will gravitate toward high end lsptops. The shops sort of categorise laptops with advertising terms like "suitable for gaming" to push more expensive models.
In the end, most people set a budget and get the best laptop that meets there meed.
I recently bought a new laptop within my budget and it is much faate rhan old laptop. On benchmarks it comes in at lower end of high end laptops. To get anything more powerful (which I do not really need), I would double my costs for very little gain, as most of time I would not really use the extra power i.e. I rarely do high end computing or play cpu/gpu intensive games.
In the end, it is like buying a car. I always had a medium to large sallon car with at least 2litrevengine aa I travelled around 30,000 miles yearly (motorway). So a Ford Sierra waa the sort of car - moderately powerful at a medium price range. I never paid for high end cars e.g. BMWs aa out of my price bracket.
However, now I do less than 6,000 miles per year on local town traffic, so a small runaround with a much smaller engine e.g. 1.2 litre suffices. My main criterion is that the run around can accelerate fairly well.
Laptops are basically the same - define your budget, and get best you can.
Out there, the main criterion of Joe Public will simply be price and budget. This means the majority will buy low end to medium end off the shelf laptops, with main selection criteria beiing drive storage and screen resolution. Only a tiny fraction will gravitate toward high end lsptops. The shops sort of categorise laptops with advertising terms like "suitable for gaming" to push more expensive models.
In the end, most people set a budget and get the best laptop that meets there meed.
I recently bought a new laptop within my budget and it is much faate rhan old laptop. On benchmarks it comes in at lower end of high end laptops. To get anything more powerful (which I do not really need), I would double my costs for very little gain, as most of time I would not really use the extra power i.e. I rarely do high end computing or play cpu/gpu intensive games.
In the end, it is like buying a car. I always had a medium to large sallon car with at least 2litrevengine aa I travelled around 30,000 miles yearly (motorway). So a Ford Sierra waa the sort of car - moderately powerful at a medium price range. I never paid for high end cars e.g. BMWs aa out of my price bracket.
However, now I do less than 6,000 miles per year on local town traffic, so a small runaround with a much smaller engine e.g. 1.2 litre suffices. My main criterion is that the run around can accelerate fairly well.
Laptops are basically the same - define your budget, and get best you can.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 10 Pro + others in VHDs
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- ASUS Vivobook 14
- CPU
- I7
- Motherboard
- Yep, Laptop has one.
- Memory
- 16 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Integrated Intel Iris XE
- Sound Card
- Realtek built in
- Monitor(s) Displays
- N/A
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- 1 TB Optane NVME SSD, 1 TB NVME SSD
- PSU
- Yep, got one
- Case
- Yep, got one
- Cooling
- Stella Artois
- Keyboard
- Built in
- Mouse
- Bluetooth , wired
- Internet Speed
- 72 Mb/s :-(
- Browser
- Edge mostly
- Antivirus
- Defender
- Other Info
- TPM 2.0