Best Laptops Under $1000
Laptops Under $1000
This list will feature the best laptops for the best price. Rather than going to Bestbuy and purchasing a standard laptop that will break. I will direct you to a more stable, reliable, powerful laptop that will help you get your work done.
What to look?
- Powerful CPU
- RAM
- GPU
- Battery
- Screen Resolution
- Comfortable Track-pad.
- SSD
CPU Benchmarks
Before buying a computer or laptop you will need to do some research on the type of processor it has. You need to have an idea of how much power you need your laptop to have so that it will be able to get the job done. You want to have this laptop last for at least 3-5 years, so it needs to be powerful.
What you have to do is go to cpu benchmarks https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html .
Find your CPU and make sure the score is atleast 4000.
Random-Access Memory
Ram comes in all sorts of different frequencies, but usually in laptops that are under $1000 RAM is 1600. You will want your laptop to have DDR-4 RAM. Currently it is popular to have at least 8GB of RAM. That amount will be more than enough for you to be able to do your work. Unless you need more RAM for video editing or some sort of rendering. You have to make sure that the laptop you are buying can upgrade its RAM to 16GB or 32GB.
Graphics Processing Unit
If you plan on gaming you need to have a GPU. I recommend having a GPU regardless. You never know when you might need the graphics! So always make sure you buy a laptop with a dedicated GPU and not integrated. Usually the dedicated graphics cards are the more high performance ones. They do not take memory from the RAM, but have their own.
Battery Type
Li-ion battery is what you will be looking for. Make sure it last at least 12 hours. These batteries recharge much quicker, and they do not have battery memory. So when you get your laptop you do not need to let it die so that the battery will be stronger.
Screen Resolution
Always try to look for 1920 x 1080 screen resolution. Anything below that is out of the question.
Solid State Drive
SSD's are 10-20 times faster than a regular hard drive so invest a little extra money into your laptop so you can have blazing fast start up and file access. This is the most important thing to have in my opinion. It makes your life way easier and you become way more efficient at your job.
For example - Photoshop starts up within 10 seconds, on a hard drive it would take 45 seconds to a minute. From having the laptop completely turned off to fully working takes about 15 seconds. It makes life much simpler so the extra money invested in your laptop will be well worth it.
For example - Photoshop starts up within 10 seconds, on a hard drive it would take 45 seconds to a minute. From having the laptop completely turned off to fully working takes about 15 seconds. It makes life much simpler so the extra money invested in your laptop will be well worth it.
