How to Buy the Right Computer for You

This article will show you how or give you a better understanding in what to look for when going out to find a new laptop, desktop computer, and or a mac computer. It will start with ask you what type of computer is best for and what you want in the new computer that you wanting to get. Then what you should do in getting that right computer and then tips on how to cape running smooth as when you first got it. 

Steps

1. What type of computer would you like: a desktop computer, laptop, netbook, or an alternative to a desktop computer is a Mac Mini or IMac or other mac computers or all-in one desktop which a touch screen computer that look like just a screen.
   
2. Think what you will be using your laptop/desktop/netbook for: like gaming, video editing, or just looking at Facebook and your emails.
3. Ask yourself how much you are will to spend on your new computer and is this realist to want you want in the computer.
   
4. Think what computer components you will want in your computer like hard drive space, RAM, CPU/Processor (like Intel I7 2nd generation), Graphics Card (like NVidia GeForce GTX 590, top of the line graphic card), CD Drive / DVD Drive / and or Blu-ray Drive, webcam, fingerprintreader. A person who uses a computer for just looking at emails will need 3-4GB of RAM, wont’ t really need to about graphic because won’t be playing high performance games, maybe will need 250GB of hard drive, and will really only have to get a Intel I3 processor and you should have to pay more than $600(before taxes and warranty). A person who is into more editing videos, plays some games some time will need made at the most 350-500GB of hard drive room, 6GB of RAM, a medium graphic card, a Intel I5 processor, and shouldn’t really pay more than $1000 (before taxes and warranty). A person who will is a hard gamer, video editor, photo editor, some 3D Animation from time to time should look at least 8GB of RAM, top of the ling graphic card or very close to the top end models, at least 500GB of hard drive, a Intel I7 or Intel I7 extreme edition, this will most likely start at $1300 up (before taxes and warranty) depending of some of the components the company or you choice to put in the computer you choice.
   
5. Then after looking at the computer components, what you may want to do is look at the screen size depending what type of computer you are thinking on getting like for a desktop a good 19inch screen or bigger is good, for a laptop that you will be carrying around, the biggest you want to get is 15.6inch screen because bigger the screen heaver it gets for laptop.
   
6. Operation System that you may want in your computer is like Mac OS X, Windows, Linux or whatever other operation system you like.
   
7. Research by going to websites, computer review website, by selecting Best Buy and or Future Shop compare buttons on their websites, and if you have found one you like and it is the right price for you, I would Google it and find reviews on it to see if it is a good laptop for the price and is it reliable by the reviews that you have read for it. But at the same time there may not be any reviews on it because it may have just came out a couple weeks ago.
8. Pick a computer brand that you like and think make good products or that you have bought computers from in the past or maybe try a different brand this time around. Me personally I like HP Computers and really dislike Dell computers because I have had one it was simply put it just was a bad computer all rounded and I also know people that have Dell computers and did not like them either but that is my option. Also there many other computer companies like Samsung, Acer, Toshiba, Sony, and etc...
   
9. Go buy it and test it out and make sure that you like it and it is the right computer for you. And if you buy it from a store like Best Buy or Future Shop you do have 14 days to bring it back get a full money return on the price of computer and warranty but not on the software that you may have bought with the computer because due to copyright laws, once software, DVD, and CD’s package is open you can’t return it to get your money back but you can just reinstall that software and use the serial on other computer that you switch to.
10. 1BUY A WARRANTY with your computer, now the cost of the warranty will be more with a more experience of computer that you buy and this should also be put into your budget because it can cost up to a other $600 on top of the computer and software you may be buying with it.
11. After buying it, the best way to take care of your laptop is by cape it clean, cape it update with the anti-virus program, computer components companies like if you graphic card has a update ready to be installed and also Windows update, and scanning on weekly bases, also defrag your computer on a weekly bases too.

Tips

• Cape it up to date with Windows update and the programs that you have on your computer.
• Defrag your computer weekly by: START>Search"DEFRAG">it show up as "Disk Defragmenter" in search and open that and pressing "Defragment Disk" also you can make run weekly on a scheduled time and day this process helps your computer run faster.
• Run your anti-virus programming every week or so to make sure you don't infected with viruses, Trojan, malware.
• Then what like to do is run "Disk Clean Up tool" to delete anything in my temp folder, internet cache, windows updates stuff which also helps run faster. And get there by going to START>All PROGRAMS>ACCESSORIES>SYSTEM TOOLS>DISK CLEAN
• Back-up your most important stuff to a external hard drive to make your stuff like music, programs,games, or whatever is important to you.

Warnings

• When install new graphic card driver make sure to cape a previous version because there maybe glitches in the new version where you have to reinstall the previous version to make graphics card work right once again.
• Really do your research to know what you really want because the employees of the store you are buying from may try to get you to buy the more expensive one, which them you be paying more for something that you don't need and won't use to its full potential.

Source : wikihow.com