Wall Street Journal: An Updated Laptop Buying Guide
Walter Mossberg’s annual guide to selecting a laptop looks at new processors and graphics technology, talks about pricing and revisits the issue of Mac vs. PC. It’s addressed to ‘consumers’ but applies equally to small businesses.
“As consumers open their wallets again to buy new computers this spring, they’ll face a wide variety of choices and price points, ranging from bargain PCs for as little as $299 to heavily equipped machines for thousands of dollars. This season, there aren’t any big, new mainstream developments in the market, such as when tiny netbooks were introduced a couple of years ago. But there are some new processors and new graphics innovations.
To help guide you through these choices, here’s my annual spring computer buyers’ guide, a quick cheat sheet that tries to clarify some of the issues to make shopping easier.”
