Ah yes, I want a laptop but I am not going to spend a couple of thousand dollars for one. Well guess what you don’t have to. Laptop prices have come down dramatically over the past year alone & they will continue to do so as technology advances. But the trick here is to find good quality Laptop that fit your needs at the cheapest prices available today.

I would said that there probably is a store near you right now that has cheap laptop computers. In fact, many stores already have them. The reason being, like any other new product, Laptop were once considered the cream of the crop in the Laptop world which made them very expensive. However, all that has changed now. Laptop are a dime a dozen! The hand held digital assistants, Bluetooth cell phones & tablet pads are the new rage making laptop computers cheap.

Now, don’t get me wrong, this does not mean that they are cheaply made. Thanks to the wonders of the technological cycle, laptop computers are decreasing in price as their capabilities rise. Of course, there are the latest & greatest monsters out there that are made for gaming or high powered multimedia applications & these babies still cost a pretty penny.

But for the average user, you can find cheap laptop computers that provide all the power you need and then some. Every major manufacturer out there, like Dell, HP, Compaq, Gateway, & IBM have their lower end & intermediate models that come with more than enough speed & usability.

Now here is the key to finding the right cheap Laptop laptop for you, & that is to figure out exactly what you need it for.

Are you going to use it mainly for surfing the web or word processing? Do you need it to work from home or mainly to save your MP3s & digital pictures?

Ok, so now you have an idea of what you want to use your laptop for. Now lets go out shopping and compare. You can visit any of the top manufacturers websites or visit your local store and find their low end or intermediate models that may suit your needs. The three top components of a Laptop you want to look for is the hard drive size, memory, & processor speeds & take notes of each model you find on each component & model.

The hard drive, you can consider this the brain of your Laptop, this is where all your files, applications & folders are stored. If you plan on using your Laptop for MP3s & digital pictures your hard drive should be large since these files are usually very large. I personally would look at 80gb as minimum.

Next would be the memory, memory can be considered the brainstorm processes of your Laptop. As a minimum I would look at 512mb but if you plan on using your laptop for gaming of course this should be much larger, in the area of 1 to 2gb. Now memory is used whenever a program or application is running. So the more memory you have the faster your Laptop can process the program.

& finally your processor, now your processor is just that it processes all the inner workings of how each program runs. The faster the processor is, the faster the program instructions are processed. Again if your looking for a laptop for gaming uses you want your processor with high speeds 2ghz or more. For other uses you can go less.

Other parts of the Laptop to also consider are the ports involved that can connect your Laptop to your digital camera or your mp3 player for example. You also want to check that your laptop has wireless & broadband connectivity. Many cheap Laptop Laptop today already come with this but you want to make sure or you will have to pay additional, for example, a wireless card to install in your laptop to have this capability.