There are a lot of articles and websites on the internet now showing ‘the best buy laptop’! But an important question you have to ask when reading these articles is ‘the best buy laptop’ for who?
Somebody who plays games will have a different ‘best buy’ to someone wanting to run a small office from home. If your laptop is your home media center with films and music stored on it then when you buy your next laptop it will have different specification to a businessman who wants a small, lightweight, extremely portable option.
But the questions don’t stop there. Once you have put yourself into a category you then have to decide the following. What criteria are you using to assume the laptop you are looking at is really a better buy than the one next to it? The amount of fancy numbers in the specification that is provided, such as memory, RAM or the processor? The fact that it is just so obviously much cheaper and affordable to you? Or what about choosing a well proven design and brand of laptop over a newer more recent addition to the market?
I think it is unfair, to the buyer, to list exact individual models when it comes to this category. The decision of what is ‘the best buy laptop’ is actually yours, not ours or anyone else’s, to make.
Firstly, decide what you want to use the laptop for and read up on laptop specifications, hardware, software, etc, that allow you to do so. Then consider your budget, allowing for the millions of optional extras that are available with laptops. Now, with budget and a rough idea of what you want in your computer have a look around for comparable models. When eventually you have made a short list read up on the good and bad things about each model. Visit forums or chat rooms to hear what other users have to say.
In the end you should only have to choose between 2 or 3 to find the best laptop for you. The last thing I use to decide the final winner is ‘looks’ – I spend many hours a day on my laptop and, especially first thing in the morning, I want to walk up to a sleek and sexy looking piece of computer hardware!
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I hate BestBuy……the sales associates are obnoxious!! I went to buy a macbook, but there was nobody to grab me one…. any body i asked said to ask the sales person in the laptop section, while there was no such guy in there……
I left the store, and i am glad i bought my mac from Apple’s official store.
I don’t believe your story here about Best Buy. I always shop at Best Buy, and I am surrounded with sales people from the very first time I walk through the door until I leave. Heck, sometimes those same sales people even follow me home to try and make a sale. LOL well, I am just kidding about the home part, but you get my meaning, right? Everyone of my Best Buy purchase experiences have been top-notch. They always let you know they are there to help you, but they don’t corode you with themselves. They usually just walk away and let you shop. And when I decide on a purchase and need their assistance, they are there and are always very helpful. They go get the product from the back if they need to, or they get the right person who can, and I am out of the store with my great purchase almost immediately. Well, unless the cash register aisle is full of people. But as far as them getting my items from the top shelf or from the back, they get it right away. So I am sorry that I can’t believe your story on this one, but I have had too many great and positive experiences with Best Buy that causes me Not to believe it. So, sorry dude, but your Best Buy story here is BS!!
Brian, you’re either really lucky, or a first name basis shopper at best buy. Whenever I go there, I have to wait around especially in the notebook area. Then, when I finally get someone, they have to go help someone else for a quick second, which turns out to be a little more than that.
I’m a little shocked by the Best Buy defender here, too… My experience: it’s hard to get the attention of the salespeople, and when you do, you get such genius advice as (I kid you not) “All laptops really have about the same amount of battery life. Oh, buy the warranty.” Never. Going. Back.
I just was on hold for the comp dept with bb 4 about an hour just to double check some specs. I also sent off a bunk hard drive to be serviced only to have them charge me and tell me it was bunk. without opening it or reading my instructions that i had spoken with the manufacturer and I just needed them to check for scratches and data recovery. Geek squad is different but guilty by association and paying the price for over expanding ahead of human recourses.
Brian, do you wear a very short skirt, stilletos, and make-up when you go there? That would be the only way you get ANY attention at Best Buy!
Agree with the others. Pain in the b…
I agree with everyone but Brian, I have had so many problems with Best Buy. Always a long wait to get help in the store, on the phone and in the line to check out. They claim to be knowledgable but are not. I bougt a washer and dryer there on my credit card, they tried to deliver it but it wouldn’t fit through the laundry room door so it was never delivered, but yet it took them three months and alot of agravasion to give me back my money. I’ve also had several computer issues with service and repair. I try to avoid that place as much as possible but I am stupid enough to go back on occasion because it’s the only local electronics store in town and I hate buying off the net in case there is a problem and you have to ship the item back.
I was just at Best Buy recently to buy a laptop. Ending up waiting forever to get help. I had help right when I walked in but I needed sometime to browse at the laptops. Finally when I had a question or find one that I liked I couldn’t get a salesperson to help me out. There were five to six of them and they were walking past me. My husband asked for help but we just had sales associates walking by. We couldn’t believe. Finally, when we got someone, we already were mad that we didn’t get our questions answered so we just picked out a lap top. The guy made it seem like we were getting a laptop. He offered to ring us up while he goes in the back to get it. When he came out, he told us they didn’t have any in stock. What a joke. We were so upset. I don’t think I’ll buy my laptop there.
I agree with Brian, bestbuy is the best technology store ever They always prompt to help. I am surrounded with sales people from the very first time I walk through the door. I have been shopping there for years and someone always eager to help me. Great return policies. I love that store!!!!
Best Buy always gives me gas, which is ok except for the fact that I do not start farting until I leave the store.
Best buy is a great place to get electronics. problems that people have can vary between stores. i went to one and couldnt get any service. i went on city over and immediately was helped. so it just depends on which one you go to. by the way my laptop works fine 6+ years
I was at Best Buy a few weeks ago, not for a laptop, but looked anyway. I tend to make the rounds and check out the new stuff. There was someone in every department eager to help and I was impressed by there courtesy and professionalism. I’m sure it was hard to keep the chin up knowing that 28 jobs were being sliced from that store alone. You’ll have greedy fat corporate America to thank for the lack of service in best buy in the future.