Identifying Needs & Choosing Technology To Meet Those Needs
For my personal life, I need a durable yet portable laptop that can be taken nearly everywhere (i.e. a classroom, a coffee shop or another person’s home yet has the computing power to be able to handle a vast majority of present-day applications and games. The ability of the laptop to play the latest games is the most important aspect since I happen to be an avid gamer and enjoy playing an assortment of games. This means having a laptop that has a graphics card of no less than 2GB, it must have a high capacity processor to ensure an optimum level of performance for the game engine and must have 8 to 16GB of RAM to ensure smooth gameplay.
Some of the specifications needed for this laptop come in the form of an Intel® Core™ i7 3630QM Processor as well as Windows 8 Pro. The reason behind this is the necessity of having a high enough capacity processor to handle an assortment of applications. Windows Pro is necessary due to the system requirements of several of today’s applications and older versions of Windows such as Windows XP (despite its continued popularity) simply cannot run the applications as I would want to. Aside from this, it would be necessary to have a 1 terabyte capacity hard drive due to the sheer amount of storage space necessary to run present-day games and applications. While it may be true that a smaller hard drive would be better, the fact is that I have a lot of files from school that I would need to store and, as such, a large hard drive would be preferable.
The following are the specifications that my laptop would need:
- Intel® Core™ i7 3630QM Processor
- DDR3 1600 MHz SDRAM, 4 x SO-DIMM socket for expansion up to 32 GB SDRAM
- NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 670MX with 3GB GDDR5 VRAM
- Blu-Ray DVD Combo Optical Drive
- Intel® HM77 Chipset
- All of these can be found in the ROG G75VX Gaming Laptop
I am not so picky about the display; however, the performance of the laptop must be up to the parts specified for me to be satisfied with it.
While a desktop would be the best choice when it comes to sheer computing power and storage capacity, the fact remains that it is far too bulky and cumbersome to be able to bring it from one location to another. With a laptop, its portability enables me to easily take it with me and be able to use it in class which I cannot do with a desktop. Given the hardware and software needs of present-day games and applications, the parts I chose for my laptop will enable me to easily run these applications.
It should also be noted that when choosing these parts I have taken into consideration the possibility of product obsolescence. The fact is that it is far easier to sell a laptop later on and use the money from the proceeds of the sale to get a new one as compared to selling off a desktop. Since technology keeps on improving at a rapid pace, it is important to be able to easily sell off your computer setup and get a new one, later on, to be able to run the latest applications.