Purpose
I am shopping around for a laptop, printer, and software for the primary purpose of using it for school work and, secondary, entertainment. My goal is to find a laptop that is properly suited for online research, typing (writing software), playing games, and streaming/downloading movies, videos, and music. Therefore, I will need a laptop that has lots of space/memory, can multi-task without lagging, a good video/audio card and speakers, and a fast processor with good amount of RAM. I will therefore be comparing the 3 laptops mainly in those areas. I will also need a printer to print the research papers I type up and other school work such as articles for researching. I found 3 laptops that I will compare in order to determine which of the 3 best suits my needs. All 3 are sold by BestBuy.
The first laptop is a Dell Inspiron, which costs $549.99. It has an Intel Dual Core processor with a speed of 3 GHz. It has a 6 GB RAM memory and 4 MB of cache memory. Therefore, these specs show that this laptop is good enough to run multiple (but not too many) programs simultaneously without lagging and perform fast. Furthermore, it has a hard drive disk space of 1 TB, which is sufficient to run the Windows 10 operating system, the software I am interested in (which will be discussed later in the “Software” section), and any word, spreadsheet, or presentation documents I will need to save to the hard drive. Additionally, it will suffice for any videos, movies, or music I will download. It also has an HD graphics card with a MaxxAudio sound card and speakers which “delivers unparalleled audio performance, with sound that is louder, clearer, fuller and more intelligible.” It also has a DVDRW optical drive, which will allow me to use it for several functions: copy data onto CDs/DVDs, backup and restore data, and play DVD/CD video or audio. It comes with a 6-month free trial of Kaspersky Antivirus. For warranty, it includes a 1-year warranty on parts but...