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Computer Configurators

HP is the best selling computer brand in the U. S. and the world. One of the reasons they are, at least in the U. S. is their direct sales from their website. This website sells notebook computers in ready to ship configurations or made to your order. While your selection of hardware is limited, the site is very useful when you are shopping for a notebook. You can go there and get a "ballpark" price for the best deal on laptop computers. Unless you go to checkout though, you won't see the final price. Shipping and sales tax aren't added until then.

How To Customize Your Laptop

Using a configurator is what I consider the first step in how to buy a laptop. While this configurator is useful, it seems deliberately confusing. Entry level laptops are generally the best laptop to buy, but the hardest to find. This is a link to the HP Home and Home Office store, where we will look for the best deal on laptop computers. If you happen to click on this link and buy something now from this site, I will get a commission.

Today, new Intel or AMD processors have graphics processors with them that are much better than the integrated graphics of two years ago. Even so, some games have become so demanding that only top end graphics cards can play them well. Like I have said, I would not put a top end graphics card in anything smaller than a 17 inch laptop.

With a 13.3 or smaller laptop, there really isn't much reason to get discrete graphics.

A Nvidia Geforce GT 555M or an AMD Radeon HD 6770M graphics card are about the minimum cards to run all games. Most makers feel comfortable about putting then in a 15 inch laptop.

When you get to the HP website, click on "Laptops."

What I'm looking for is under the "high performance" group to find the laptop we want quickest.

Now you

• Pick your screen size The 16 inch models are our size. There are 4.
• Find the model with your key component-- The AMD powered model offers the AMD Radeon HD 6750M as an upgrade. While this isn't exactly what we are looking for, when combined with the graphics processor on the APU it forms the asymmetrical crossfire combination known as the AMD Radeon HD 6755G2. This will also play all current games, so it is good enough. All three of the Intel powered models offer the AMD Radeon HD 6770M.
• Check the processor--The APU upgrade to the Quad-Core A8-3530MX would be something I would do for the AMD model. This will give us essentially the equivalent of an Intel i5 processor. The most expensive of the Intel models has only Core i7 processors. That is overkill with the availlable video so I will ignore that line. The other two lines offer processors more appropriate to the video so we will upgrade to the i5 2520M ad well as the AMD Radeon HD 6770M
• Be sure you have 4GB of RAM--the upgrade to 6 GB is free today.
• Be sure you have a 64 bit OS--64 bit Windows 7 is standard.
• Check that the display, hard drive, wireless card and optical drive are what we want.--what we want is standard, but it can't hurt to check.

When you check these components they are as expected but we will upgrade to a high capacity battery for $20.

The website keeps a running total of what that company will charge for the computer you are building. Its $754.99 with the AMD processor. With the Intel i5 the price is $899.99 or $919.99. We will use these prices to find the best deal on a laptop. The AMD and Intel models aren't exact equivalents. The AMD model games a bit better. The Intel models will crunch numbers better and are better for video encoding.

If you are happy with the price, you can just purchase the laptop. Remember though, the price does not include tax and shipping.

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