What You Need to Know About Buying a New Laptop

The Really Useful Podcast is back with a brand new set of tips and tricks for finding, choosing, and buying a new laptop. Drawing on long experience of laptop buying, MakeUseOf's Christian Cawley and Ian Buckley discuss how to set a budget, determine a purpose, find the right specification, and choose your laptop in your own time, without any pressure from sales staff.We've also prepared some reading for you:The best laptop for programming and codingChoose the best computer for collegeHow to buy a refurbished MacWhich MacBook should you buy?Dell G5 5505 SE gaming laptop review This week's show is brought to you by Christian Cawley and Ian Buckley. You can contact them on Twitter as @thegadgetmonkey and @ianmbuckley with your suggestions for future topics.Look out for our other shows (featuring MakeUseOf contributors Ian Buckley and Ben Stegner). Head to thereallyusefulpodcast.transistor.fm for our other shows.Don't forget to subscribe to The Really Useful Podcast on iTunes and YouTube (be sure to hit the bell icon to be notified of new episodes) for more tips.