Checklist needed to purchase laptop for business

We get frequent questions on what laptop needs to be chosen for business that happens to be one stop spot that you log onto everyday , choose to stay with throughout the day, switch off only when your business ends. Also, your website, blog that you would have created and have been maintaining to promote your brand online can be easily managed from your laptop A business website is launched to leverage our existing business or a brand new business position and promotion. Often the question comes if there is a need to choose between desktop, ipad, laptop. Based on our experience here is a simple checklist that comes handy while making your business laptop purchase . All you need to do would be to copy paste the given questions in your local notepad (or) write down these in a piece of paper that will let you generate your own roadmap 1) Which one do you like - Desktop (or) Laptop (or) ipad (or) all of these? 2) Are you into online training business now (or) will you launch your online (or) self-paced training near soon? #TIP : If you business involves creation of courses this involves installation of additional software, more storage space 3) What is the maximum amount you can pay towards your new machine? 4) What is your preferred screen size = 15.6 inches (or) more than 17 inches? 5) Will you store the recorded video session (videos) locally (or) will you host all videos in youtube? #TIP : Youtube videos form major part of media marketing and the storage space needed locally should be taken into consideration 6) Will you use this laptop for personal purpose in addition to business purpose? 7) Will you play games in your laptop? 8) Which OS do you prefer? We recently helped one of our client who avail our digital marketing service starting with the launch of their online blog to creating and maintaining their social accounts decide on purchasing their new laptop. Same capacity planning recommendations are applicable to desktop as well Business Laptop Purchase Checklist 1) Average RAM (memory) of a better computer is 8GB 2) Hard drive recommendation would be 500GB - It can be more if you choose to store all videos locally. Video blogging is future and most probably you will upload videos onto youtube. Hence 500GB would be sufficient to start with 3) Processor - i5 (or) i7 are found to be perform really good in wired and wireless environments 4) OS - Our client preferred Windows 7 Professional. But if you purchase a laptop with Pro license you can choose to stay in Windows 8.1 or windows 7 professional 5) Screen size - Optimal screen size would be 15.6 inches. 17 inches would be better if you like more luxury 6) Microsoft Office - No blogpost without microsoft word. This helps you easily create your first eBook digital product by converting word to PDF. Also, powerpoint slides can be digitized. Hence, microsoft office is a must