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alright guys here's the big picture you're shopping for a laptop what are you doing what do you want what are you wanting a laptop where there's a whole lot of things that come and play when you're shopping for a new laptop PC now I happen to have a brand-new 17-inch model of this TVs the HP pavilion dv4 you but I'm just going to go through a list and you can see this link in the description of exactly how to pick what laptop you want to buy and I hope these tips are helpful for you so I'll go down the different parts of a laptop and see exactly what which ones you might be interested in so I'm going to start with the processor the processor is one of the key features of a laptop and determines how fast you're able to process information as far as opening and closing programs and downloading and installing and basically the ability to process things now some notebooks use AMD's and some unit notebooks use Intel I happen to have an Intel Core 2 Duo running at 223 gigahertz it's a decent it's a decent machine and I'm pretty sure this is a good processor for me to recommend to you guys now for I have to start by saying this is a 17-inch high-end notebook PC basically so I'm les first the second part is the brand of the processor which right now I have to recommend the Intel Core 2 Duo of course you can also go with an AMD turion you can go with the turning on 64 a 64-bit processor I can go a lot into processor features in a later video if you so desire so the next part I'm going to go into about your system is your RAM right off the bat I'm going to tell you I roll I have a there's a lot of stuff I goes into your RAM but right now I have an 8 gigabyte I've a biga bytes of ddr3 RAM that I actually had to install into this laptop manually because at the time that I customized it there was no option for 82 Ram so Windows Vista generally is going to require I'm going to say 2 gigabytes of RAM you're not going to want to go with anything less than 2 gigabytes of RAM even if your window running in Windows basic mode and with absolutely no themes turned on you're going to want at least two gigs of RAM for Windows Vista and there's also the ddr2 RAM versus ddr3 RAM and I highly recommend going with ddr3 if you can afford it I just gotta happen to pick up some ddr3 RAM it was extremely inexpensive and I'll give you the newegg.com link eventually if I can find it again but it's probably selling out so that that determines a lot of the speed of your computer the more RAM you have generally the more applications you can have running at once without having a little bit of lag when the animations coming by the way windows Aero I found out uses about 200 megabytes of RAM so if you turn arrow and transparency and everything off you'll save about 0.2 gigs of RAM so there's also the 32 bit versus 64 bit issue which again is going to be the topic for a separate video this 32 bit operating system which I've had the privilege to have I had four gigabytes of RAM at the time and I only had about three point two gigabytes recognized by that 32-bit operating system now of course I have eight gigs of ram so I needed obviously to upgrade to 64-bit Windows Vista which can handle up to a hundred and something gigabytes of RAM I'll get back to you on that so that is a really nice feature and I recommend getting at least two gigs of RAM again if you're using Windows Vista so and then I'll also extend your battery life of course because the more RAM you have the less time you have to access the hard drive which uses a lot of battery next is I'm going to say your hard drive I'm just going off the back here so just part of me the hard drive is there's two major components to the hard drive and that is the size and the speed the more hard drive space you can afford the more I recommend if you can go with the dual hard drive I also recommend that however if you do have external storage I don't recommend going for size I'm going to say go down the speed root when I was shopping for my laptop I noticed three different sizes of processors that you could actually run hard drives pardon me that you could actually go with you can go with a 4,200 4,200 rpm hard drive which is a very low-end not really it's like a 13-inch ultra portable that you just have you happen to have a CD drive and listening music then you go with the mainstream 5400 rpm hard drive and this laptop I got I decide I have a 500 gig external hard drive here made by Western Digital so I didn't need size so I just went with speed when I increase the price and I went with a 250 gigabyte 7200 rpm hard drive which is perfect for me and trust me the performance increase was worth it I was working with a 4200 rpm hard drive and I did not like that kind of experience so that is the hard drive part of it the next part is graphics your graphics card is probably one of the top most important parts of your laptop there's graphics memory based on how much is actually needed to dedicate it to processing your video the built in integrated graphics by Intel or whatever they're they're going to be terrible I'll tell you that off the bat they're going to be bad but if you do if you do go with an external graphics card obviously it uses a tiny bit more battery but gamers and highest desktop replacement notebooks are going to have you're going to want up a 512 Meg graphics card if I could pull it up here I'd show you but we have I have about I have a 512 Meg graphics card it's an NVIDIA GeForce 9700 M I believe but I'll have to double check on that so that's that's basically that's the basic mode on on graphics memory again a separate video if you so request the next is your screen mine laptops are continuing continually having larger and larger screens mine is a 17 inch desktop replacement you can go with a mainstream notebook with about a 15 point 4 inch or 14 point one inch and more portable ones have even smaller screens such as a 13-inch or when you get down to the netbooks like a 9 inch or anything but I've also seen 18 inch laptops and yes a 21 inch laptop so don't be surprised there are huge laptops out there and obviously more the bigger your screen and the brighter it is immoral stuff battery but hey that's the price you pay um what I would recommend is if you really like to game or watch a lot of videos and you would go with a higher definition screen obviously but there's really not much to talk about I have a 1680 by 1050 screen on the 17 inch laptop you could also go with 1440 by 900 or I know someone a 16 inch laptop whose resolution was about 1,300 by 768 anyway the last part I want to go over is your battery um when you again using a different processor will determine how much battery life you're going to get out of your laptop and Intel Core 2 Duo is going to last longer than AMD turion taking steps that I've shown you in other wireless or other videos I've shown you about battery so I'm just turning off wireless or using less graphics or background tasks can cut down on how much battery you actually use so that's basically that's basically my laptop tips tutorial for you guys subscribe if you like this video it was a pleasure teaching you guys exactly how I got my laptop and again customizing a laptop is going to be the best thing you want to do go online and look for different deals that you can get such as like online retailers like newegg.com which I'll show you guys later side Starcom a lot of videos are to come on these topics so again thanks for watching and I hope you like this video tutorial and any other video requests definitely PM me and I will get to it thanks guys please