Small Laptop Computers

Everyone wants small laptop computers today. This is the same consumer choice that was driving mini notebook computers or mini laptop sales. The good news is an ultra portable or ultra small laptop seems to be what the manufacturers are trying to sell you. The newest expression of this idea are ultra thin laptop computers, the ultrabooks Intel has been pushing as the future of laptop computers.

The primary reason for this is the video cards available. The best video card available in a 13 inch or smaller computer at the HP, Dell, or Apple websites was labelled "mid-range" on a gaming website. If the integrated graphics on both the newest AMD and Intel processors continue to improve, this will change.

The card is good enough to run most games, but not at even close to the highest settings, even for Worlds of Warcraft. It is good enough for most other uses though.

If you will be using your laptop for streaming video, gaming, or extensive video or photo editing, I suggest you buy a larger computer. Even the best small laptops do not have graphics cards suitable for these uses.

If you will be using your computer for surfing the internet, shopping, downloading music or videos, word processing and little else, you can buy a low entry level ultra portable laptop computer forr about 675. The computers have 4 G.B. RAM, a WXGA display, a wireless card, and a large enough hard drive.

If you shop carefully, you can probably find an equivalent 14 to 16 inch laptop with a DVD burner for $150 less.
When you compare the performance of ultra portable laptops to the even smaller net books or mini laptop computers, the laptops are more powerful. They have faster processors and more memory (ram). The laptop screen is larger and wxga compared to the wsvga on the mini-laptop. The graphics are better and the ultra portable laptop has a CD/DVD burner. The newest version of the ultra portable is the ultrabook.

On the other hand, the most commonly seen configuration of a mini laptop computer costs more than $300 less than the small laptop computers we are talking about. Even adding an external CD/DVD burner to a mini laptop will still keep you $200 under the price of the laptop.

The smallest laptop computer is still a version of the netbook.

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