There are thousands of laptop models in the market

There are thousands of laptop models in the market. It is difficult to choose wisely.

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The new year is knocking on the door. Many people are thinking about buying a new laptop. Before buying, you need to think about exactly what you need your laptop for. Buyers in our country mainly use laptops for three types of work.

Study and office work: Most users buy laptops for daily office work, browsing, social media use, minor image editing, document creation, keeping accounts in Excel sheets or creating presentations on the power bank. Along with these tasks, students also use laptops for research and programming. For such work, users need a laptop with a processor and RAM capable of running office software, programming software and multitasking, and a battery that provides long-term backup. Most laptops in the market have similar battery capacities, and battery life depends on the processor.

Gaming: Many people choose laptops for office and educational work as well as for gaming. In that case, battery life will have to be sacrificed a lot. The laptop should be selected keeping in mind the powerful GPU and cooling system. A high refresh rate display is essential for gamers.

Creating multimedia content: Graphic designers, video editors, animators, or architects have very different laptop needs. Those who do such work need to pay attention to both the CPU and GPU when buying a laptop. The main difference between a gaming laptop and a multimedia laptop is that the CPU and GPU work equally in multimedia work, while the GPU is used more in gaming laptops. Those who work with multimedia content should also pay attention to battery life.

For example, budget requirements: If you want to buy a laptop for study, business or office work, you should keep a budget of at least 30 to 50 thousand taka. If you want to buy a gaming laptop, you must keep a budget of 75 thousand to 150 thousand taka. If you want to buy a laptop for multimedia work, you must keep a budget of more than 80 thousand. It can be up to several lakhs depending on the work requirements.

Laptop processor: Except for Apple Mac or Microsoft Surface, laptops usually use processors from evil manufacturers – Intel Core series and AMD’s Ryzen.

This year, Intel has brought new processors, Core Ultra series to the market – Ultra 5, Ultra 7 and Ultra 9. The previous Core i3, 5, 7> series are also on the market. The Ultra series processors are the most powerful processors currently made by Intel. AMD also released the Ryzen AI series this year. AMD processors also have Ryzen 3. 5. 7 and 9 models. In both cases, the 3 series is the most powerful and the 1 series is the most powerful. Most users use Core i3 or 5. You don’t need a processor more powerful than Core Ultra 5 or Ryzen 3 or 5. For gaming and working with multimedia content, you should choose at least Core i5 or 7. Core Ultra 7 or Ryzen 7 series.

If you pay attention to the naming of the processor, you will see some numbers and letters in addition to Core, Core Ultra or Ryzen. The processor is for high-power work or long battery life, these numbers and letters go through. The name of the processor consists of 5 numbers and a letter. The first two numbers indicate the generation of the processor, the next three numbers indicate the model series and the letter indicates the processor model. In the case of AMD Ryzen, the model name will have four numbers, the first of which indicates the generation and the next three indicate the processor model. The letters are U, H and HX. U indicates battery saving, H indicates high performance, and the more powerful HX model. Whether Intel or AMD, U series processors are sufficient in most cases for office, study or daily work. For gaming or multimedia work, you need at least an H series processor. Try to buy a laptop with at least Intel’s 12th and AMD’s fifth generation processors.

GPU is required for gaming and multimedia: A low-power GPU or graphics processing unit is provided within the laptop processor. The degree of difference between the new Intel and AMD processors is enough for playing today/a little bit of games. For example, the latest Intel Core – Ultra series has an Orky series GPU or the AMD Ryzen and series

RedN GPUs can run high-quality graphics games without any problems. Those who are buying a laptop must keep in mind whether it has at least an Nvidia RTX 3050 or above GPU. Nvidia’s laptop GPU performance is currently ahead of laptops with Radeon GPUs

You have to buy Intel or Nvidia GPUs for multimedia work because Radeon GPUs still don’t do multimedia rendering well, especially in video rendering, Intel’s built-in GPU beats Radeon’s powerful gaming GPU.

You should get enough RAM at the time of purchase: Currently, you should not buy a laptop with less than 16 GB of RAM. Another thing to keep in mind is that the RAM of the laptop you choose should be a slot system. Some laptops do not have RAM slots, so there is no way to add or change additional RAM. It is better to buy 24 or 32 GB of RAM while keeping the future in mind.

There should also be enough space: Currently, no laptop without an SSD.Even if you only keep files like movies or songs on the hard disk, the speed of the entire laptop will decrease. There are three generations of NVME technology used in current laptops. When buying a laptop, you should make sure that it has an empty NVME slot and that it supports Gen-4 technology. You should try not to buy a laptop with storage below 512 GB. For gaming and multimedia work, you should have one to two terabytes of SSD.

Display: The shape and weight of the laptop can be largely understood by the shape of the display. Those who have to travel should buy a laptop with a 12 to 14-inch display. In the case of gaming laptops, you must check the refresh rate. The display of a gaming laptop should have a refresh rate of at least 144 Hz. For multimedia work, you must pay attention to color accuracy. Most of the laptop displays in the market have 1080p Full HD resolution, it would not be right to buy a laptop with a display of a resolution below this.

Conclusion: Another thing, you should definitely buy a legally imported laptop, otherwise you will not get after-sales service.