15 Laptop BUYING MISTAKES! 2024 Laptop Buying Guide

No 1: Buying from Amazon

What's a good laptop to buy for college Under $1000??

Anyone else here after a new Apple update killed their perfectly fine laptop? True it was old but still... grrr. Thanks for the review, @techgeartalk!

Very up to the point !
Thanks

"But moaaaamm i dont want the toshiba handibookkk"

What 17in laptop works for a long time

I reccently buy used laptop and i made mistake buying to big and heavy one its hp pavilon dv7 i know it old but my budget was tight, is pain in the ass to carry it aroud.The good side is i can finnaly pley all game i wanted like gta 4 or gta 5 my older lapotp was hp compaq cq58 it was weeery weak so i could pley anything exceps Lol

Hello, even this is video is from 2 years ago, I am still find out these are very neutral opinions for considering buying a laptop. I appreciate for the tips for saving my money!

Need to buy a new one my laptop broke with at least 1tb internal harddrive me looking around they seem to no longer make them also me so many chroomebook types laptops at a cheap price

All this products that you white EuroAsians are devaluing is needed here in Afrika which the Rae materials is been taken from to Europe and Asia and you should know that all this laptops are still important here in Afrika.
My Advice to you white people is to stop devaluing this technologies which is mankind life very expensive for Afirikans here in the continent of Afirika.

U r a life saver bro!! Keep it up the marvelous job you're doing.

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Nice video. I always tell folks that: A) the TWO things that you enter act with on a computer are the keyboard and screen so you better TRY the keyboard and get the best screen you can afford and B) whatever you buy you have to lug around so imagine the device (and any/all accessories) in your back pack, brief case, laptop case or whatever you use to transport it BEFORE buying it.

I dearly miss my glossy display of the Asus G51-JX. There was something just better than even my current Lenovo P53 , 100% sRGB 4K matte display I am using. I wouldn't count that as a mistake.. I would take a glossy display any day to watch movies in the dark.

I have a pet peeve that I keep in the basement. His name is Irving and I have to feed him every day so he won’t hurt me…much!

Will you be using the laptop for a paperweight?

Some places have the laptop chained to the display table so you can’t lift it to see how light or heavy it is.m

Best vid out there. ❤

Small peace of advice. Don't buy ssd + hard drive pcs because you'll suffer from configuring storage path for applications especially if you're ssd is to small

Very valid points. Thumbs up :)

I actually love u this video was so helpful, ive been looking for a laptop as i havent had my own working one for about a year or two, and im currently using a school borrowed laptop before i get a new one. I will be going to uni next yr (hopefully) and will b needing a laptop soon. Ive used hp laptops all my life and icl i really dont like them (tbf the ones ive used r like 12 years old LOL) and theyre also very very heavy. So im looking for a laptop thats good for computer science and light gaming, after watching this video i dont think ill be aiming for anything over rhe price of £900 (is that good? Idk) and portability will defo contribute in narrowing the list down. As well as this, i know ill need good battery (the school borrowed laptop has amazing battery life and ive realised how important that actually is), decent reso (doesnt have to be amazing), has ports so that i can plug in my mouse, a nice keyboard, will last for years, can be used in the sunlight if i go outside, 16gb ram, 256gb ssd or more idk, good cooling system and thats about it lol

In the past I had a ipad2 and as time went past would not support many websites. Looked at your videos taking in your recommendations on the iPad Air 4 you convinced me to buy one. I have no regrets, it is all you need for a portable device. Many thanks for the advice.

Here is the mistake, not buying a Thinkpad (unless you are a gamer).

Got a laptop recently after my HP Pavillion is running like an overgrown dino. Like a work laptop specs, i7 Decacore 16 Gb RAM 512 Gb SSHD, and tried an Acer this time, $800 CDN range. Wish me luck.

Always get a laptop with a dedicated GPU

ASUS DUO. That is a bad mistake.

yup I made the mistake of buying a acer nitro 5 because I was hyped about having a RTX3060 1tb of SSD and Ryzen 7 cpu, once I got into the a.i scene for work, I suddenly needed a egpu setup just to find out the usb C it came with was NOT thunderbolt....and im like great....and compared my nitro 5 to a dell 5520 2023 12th gen I5, its 23% slower and that particular laptop has 2x thunderbolt 4's that would make my laptop very modular

I don’t care if it is big small or efficienct .

I want my laptop to do anything I throw at it

Ports and storage scalability important

Good advice, thank you

i had to buy a new one for Photoshop since im a Media student and it was flickering everything due to RAK

Exactly to the point!! I like this video more than any laptop advisers that would've spent 30mins to explain less than what u did in 10

Great Review, you are well aware of other people’s concerns and you address these well in the review. Good Job :) Thanks

my friend, breath between segments.

Number one mistake people is getting an apple don't do it

You've made my day I was sad cause a buy that I done. But most lf your recomendations touch me.

I'm gonna buy a windows laptop for better productivity.

I want my next Lap Top computer to be strong enough to hack NORAD so I can target Donald Trump if he gets off.

Also remember the year 2027 when eu requires that portable electronics including smartphones and laptops have user replaceable batteries. Dont buy one without just before it will be evereywhere!

NEVER buy a non-upgradable storage. One day the storage will be dead, far sooner for SSD. You don't want your expensive laptop totally dead in 5 years just because its SSD reached its TBW limit.

pretty much only pc builders won't make any mistake, tipical people don't understand

You didn't mentioned the 17th point:After sale service. That's what I always look for in my area because if you can't get a service or have to wait for a couple of weeks to get parts replaced, there's no point of buying from that company

Thankfully, I got a chance to try and use my dad's older model laptops thats very heavy with certain screens real estate and one that is very small and light for a few years each that when I got around to buy one for college, I avoid some of these mistakes unknowingly. Although, I'm guilty of not even trying the keyboard and track pad etc., and I also didnt do proper research for the GPU capability, not knowing my college class would require that at some point. Definitely gonna try to avoid those next time I'm buying though. Good video!

And you were secretly marketing MacBook pro which i am contemplating. 🙂

Mistake #16 Beware! My Macbook Air M1 chip has a cracked screen after just over two years despite that I was super careful with it... And I am NOT the only one this has happened to. Repairing it is ALWAYS out of warranty as this is blamed on the user, even if you have Apple Care... It costs 508 euro to repair and getting cash instead would get you only 120 euro's from Apple. So the 'good price for performance' as stated in this video does NOT consider SCREEN DURABILITY!

Apple abuses their power to the maximum, and got me deeply out of love with their predatory tactics, and hope I find a viable alternative so I never need to come back to them... I used macs (and PCs at work) and an occasional iPhone here and there (iPhone 5 and 8 had too many issues) but am now happily using a Huawei Mate 19 for over 5 years which still performs well! If Huawei has laptops with higher durability screens and good front camera and not too noisy during the use (what I like about the Apple chips) then I would hopefully buy a good one even if its pricier than Apple, but with better value for money... What do you think? Is Apple turning out worse than you had expected?

I don’t feel comfortable with a Mac book because it makes it 10x more complicated to do excel sheets or windows.

My #1 advice: Buy used. Laptops are SO cheap 2nd hand. Even Macbooks. I can get an M1 Air for 600€ in good condition, a Razer Blade 14 2021 for 1000€ etc. That's usually around 50-70% of what they cost brand new, and if you pick it up in person or buy from a site like eBay with buyers protection, then you're very unlikely to be scammed. I haven't bought a new smartphone, PC parts or a Laptop ever, and I've had no issues ever.

I spent $5200 in the best Macbook pro in 2017. Only 2 years later; The screen totally destroyed, the keyboard crap (4 keys do not work), the battery terrible and solded so more problems... then I bought a Lenovo for $1800 and 3.5 years later everything is totally perfect and i fact the keyboard is way better, I can finally use excel properly... never again I would even consider Apple