First laptop and what to buy today for gaming
The history of the first portable computing machine, which later entered colloquial speech as a laptop, begins in 1968 - then the head of the Xerox research laboratory, Alan Kay, proposed creating a device the size of a notepad, with a flat-panel monitor and a wireless connection to networks.
His idea was realized only in 1982, when the first laptop called Grid Compass saw the light of day with very modest parameters today - RAM with a capacity of only 340 kilobytes and a processor with a clock frequency of 8 megahertz. This laptop was produced by order of the US State Department and cost from eight to ten thousand dollars.
In addition, the new product was in demand and was even used by NASA in shuttles.
In civilian use, the first laptop, called Osborne 1, was released a year earlier, in 1981, but had much more modest parameters - a 4 megahertz processor and 64 kilobytes of RAM. (Compare with the filling that today has gaming laptop). But such a machine was also sold at a price of almost $1800.
Almost 40 years have passed since then, over these years the market has developed to unprecedented sizes - today dozens of different laptop models from a large number of manufacturers are sold on various websites and in specialized stores, capable of satisfying, perhaps, any user needs. To attract buyers, online platforms offer huge discounts and all sorts of additional client programs, and the laptop itself can be selected depending on needs.
Those who need a modern typewriter only for typing can choose cheaper models. A gaming laptop is traditionally chosen to be more expensive - these are options with more powerful graphics, more RAM and enhanced cooling.
Experts note that modern games require more and more RAM and, if recently the 8 GB “bar” was quite competitive, today you won’t surprise anyone with parameters of 16 GB.
A modern gaming laptop should also be equipped with a high-speed storage device - for this, an SSD drive is most suitable instead of a classic HDD. Its volume is also important - here it is worth starting from a drive with a capacity of 128 gigabytes or more. It is also worth paying attention to the screen size - the optimal diagonal is 17 inches or higher with a resolution from 1920x1080 pixels to 3840x2160, supporting 4K video streaming.
So, to summarize the above, when choosing a gaming laptop, according to the advice of professionals, you should pay attention to the following:
- amount of RAM;
- hard drive volume;
- CPU frequency;
- Screen size;
- video card parameters;
- cooling, etc.
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