Choosing a laptop

The introduction

Hello everyone, I hope, that you are all doing just fine!

In this article I want to tell you about my experience in searching for some good ultrabooks for myself and I will tell you where exactly you should be looking for those notebooks if you want to buy some.

Choosing a laptop

Well, first of all, you should know, what type of notebook you want to buy, because there are lots of them and there are all kinds of notebooks for different type of people. It all depends on how you are going to use those laptops which you want to buy for yourself. So, there are those, who just need the laptops for typing mostly and they don’t need very strong laptops, I must say. Some of them just want to have the laptops for playing games and for that you will need a pretty strong notebook with great features and stuff, of course. There are also laptops with average capacity and they are mostly sold, I guess. and, of course, you should know whether you want a normal laptop or a small one, because there are the normal 15. 6” and then there are 14” and 13. 3” and for me, I preferred having the 13. 3” one, because that was pretty small, however, they were kind of expensive, too.

You should also know, that the laptop you choose must at least have a core of i3 processor or higher and that’s what they told me in the technic supermarkets and that’s what my friends told me, too.

The frequency is important, too. My laptop has the main frequency of 1. 80 GHz and that’s how I know, that I need to buy laptop with that feature or more and not less, because I don’t’ really know, what less is going to do when I open all those tabs in my web browser and all those Microsoft word files in my laptop, which I usually do and I just love that multitasking and I have everything opened at the same time.

When choosing a laptop everybody thinks, that it’s a piece of cake or something like that and most people think, that they can just go to the supermarket and choose a laptop and buy it just with one visit to the supermarket. But it’s not like that, trust me.

Well, it’s easier to choose if you are looking for those normal size laptops, which are 15. 6”, however, it’s really hard to find a good smaller ones in reasonable prices and that’s why I have been looking for my new laptop all over the places for such a long time. To be honest, I didn’t really think, that it would be so hard to choose the right laptop, because once you think, that you have found the right one, then you see its specifications and you realize, that it’s not what you want. For example, I saw this cute lovely laptop from Acer, it was Acer Swift 1 and it was just the right size and weight and I really loved it at one sight and the price was pretty good, too, however, when I saw its specifications and saw this 1. 1 GHz, I realized, that it was not for me, because it wouldn’t be able to do all the tasks, that I intended to do with my laptop. So that, it’s pretty hard to choose between those small size laptops, when you want to buy a good one in reasonable price, although there are pretty good ones in a really expensive price!

Anyways, someone asked me some time ago, when I said, that I was looking for some small laptops, why I didn’t search them online. Well, of course, the Georgian technic supermarkets have their web pages on the Internet and they have uploaded the pictures and information about their products and everything and you can easily go online and search them without any walking and going to those different stores, which are not close to each other. You practically have to go to all the different places throughout the city.

Of course, it’s easier to search for the laptops in the Internet and I have done that, too, however, when you search them there and see those specifications, they don’t always have the full specifications on their web pages and then you have to google them and read them on other web pages and sometimes there are so many laptops on the web page, that you cant’ really search all of them and usually they don’t write the measurements of the laptops on their web pages, so that I can’t really understand, whether those laptops can fit into my criteria or not and that’s why I preferred going to the supermarkets, where I can see the laptops myself and touch them and see everything there. And, besides, I can just talk to the assistant people around the supermarket, who can tell me which ones are better and which ones are not. However, I really don’t like talking to them, because then I almost think about buying any of those things there. They speak about the products and then they choose them for you and they talk to you so much, that finally you may even buy something, that you didn’t intend to buy and that’s why I don’t like talking to them.

The places to buy laptops

There are some places, where there are all those large technic supermarkets, where you can just go and visit all of them and then compare the laptops and you don’t need to go here and there. It’s just everything in one large space, as they call it. It’s really good, that someone thought about that and they opened all those large supermarkets together, so that people won’t get tired of going to the different supermarkets all over the city.

One of the great places for the technic shopping is East Point in Tbilisi, which is just very close to my apartment and that’s why I went there first. Besides, I knew, that they had all those large supermarkets there and they would have a variety of laptops offered to the buyers.

So that, there are Elit Electronics, Metro Mart, Megatechnica, Beko, Alta-Okay, Lenovo, Zoomer supermarkets in East Point. And those supermarkets are pretty large, so that they have plenty of choices there. And getting there is not that hard, either. Well, I usually go there by microbus no. 176, which just comes to my apartment and it’s really easy to take it to the East Point and it costs 80 Tetris. I can even take it to my home from East Point, too, because it goes to my apartment back from East Point and it’s a really great thing, if you ask me.

You can also get to East Point by microbus no. 224 from Varketili metro station. It just waits there across the road and you can easily see it, or you can just ask people and they will tell you where to go to find it. And it costs only 50 Tetris.

The second place, where you can visit all those supermarkets is the Station Square territory, where there is this Tbilisi Central, where the railway station is and there’s this huge building, where there are those technic supermarkets among other things.

You can get there by many things, however, I prefer getting there by metro, you just have to get out of it on the station Station Square and when you get out, you will see this building of Tbilisi Central. There are also many buses going there, because there’s this bus station or something like that and there are lots of buses and microbuses in front of the building. For example, you can take the bus no. 9 or no. 47 to get there, etc. However, if you go there by your car, it’s kind of difficult to get there, because you have to drive through all those streets, where there can be some traffic jams, and, frankly speaking, not a single driver likes going to the Station Square.

It’s a really good place, however, there are those floors and you should visit each of them to get to those supermarkets, I mean, this Elit Electronics is on the first floor, while the Zoomer and Megatechnica are on the top floor, etc.

The third place, where there are those large supermarkets together is the City Mall on Kavtaradze street on Saburtalo somewhere between the Delisi metro station and Vazha-pshavela metro station and getting there is easy, too. I mean, if you get to the Delisi metro station, then you can take bus no. 150 or no. 21 and in just one stop, you can get off the bus and cross the road and there you are, in the City Mall! And if you go there by your car, it’s pretty easy and there’s a great parking lot there and you can just relax and shop there without any worries. However, you shouldn’t go there after 6 p. m. or something like that, because that’s the rush hour and it starts then and if you don’t live somewhere nearby, you will just have to be in that traffic jam.

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