Choosing a laptop no longer means compromising on performance or ease of use, thanks to innovative new processors, brighter displays, better keypad layouts, and quicker DVD and CD drives. Laptops can easily handle many of our favourite applications, for organising music, movies and photos, communicating, surfing the web, creating and storing documents.

Picking the right laptop is all about understanding what you’ll be using it for and what all the jargon means. Here we set out to explain the jargon, help you decide what’s important for you and how you can approach buying a laptop.

With that information, you can then confidently browse our range of laptops from Toshiba, Lenovo, IBM, Acer, Samsung, Asus, and many more. Choose from a variety of features and budgets, whatever suits you.

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