As the holiday season approaches, you may be looking at the aisle of display computers gleaming in the electronics section and wondering if it’s time. Maybe the kids are heading off to college and need something to write essays and research papers.

Maybe you’re a small business owner and need to overhaul the machine to be able to do your accounting on. Maybe your last machine exploded into a ball of flame as you tried to load up that newest AAA game.

Before you decide on your next computer, ask yourself what are your needs in a device?

The Office Worker/Student

For basic tasks and browsing, I would recommend a laptop with at least 16 GB of RAM and a Solid State Drive of at least 512 GB. The rest of the specs can be pretty flexible. A current trend I’m seeing in the laptop market is a shift from on-system storage to........

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