Now, more and more people buy laptops, the dealer's stand-alone profit is much smaller than a few years ago, although it is said to be a small profit, but many salesmen will not be satisfied with this, perhaps accidentally you got into the way he was slaughtered a meal, but also did not get a good laptop. Although not everyone can meet JS, but you still need to keep an extra eye, do not be tricked. Here, I summarize the most taboo behavior in the process of buying a laptop, not only can prevent the wrongdoing of JS, the face of a wide range of laptop computers can also manage your money bag.
Taboo one: do not pretend to understand, think they
I have a friend last year, a person ran to buy a laptop, see one of their own still appropriate, want to buy but feel 24 times the speed of the CD-ROM and desktop compared to what seems to be a bit very outdated, ask the salesman to change to 50 speed to add how much money (laptop is currently there is no 50-speed CD-ROM drive). Ask: this way to buy people can not be ripped off? Buy a computer before you must do a little knowledge base, these days because of the individual product profits are getting lower and lower, selling things people are practiced, the rookie was found, the slaughter do not discuss. For example, the sales staff know that even the basic knowledge of the notebook people do not know, certainly do not know to consider those who look like a laptop "portable microcomputer", the use of desktop CPU and motherboard chipset, it looks as if the configuration of a little higher, the price is also much cheaper to listen to the sales staff to recommend, immediately! Buy, but also feel that they earn a lot. Waiting to use a period of time to find that their own notebook long and others are not the same, no 1394 port, and even no PCMCIA expansion slot, simply a freak. But the world can't buy regret medicine, use it and not work, sell it and not worth money, how to do?
What I'm trying to say here is that if you're not too good at this and need to buy your own laptop, you can find a friend who knows what they're doing to help you do it. Of course, it is best to do a little knowledge base yourself! Otherwise you will be ripped off and still be grateful. Of course, we are not asking you to become a laptop expert just to buy a laptop! It's always good to know a little bit about it, unless you're rich enough to buy a high-end laptop and don't care about the thousands of dollars or the big name stores you can go to.
Taboo No. 2: unrealistic, catching up with the trend
For laptops, the trend is only just promoted, advertised more, but this is not necessarily all very good. Now a lot of friends to buy the kind of ultra-low-end Centrino, may be able to illustrate this problem to a certain extent. Some time ago, some of the hot copy of the domestic brands hit the low price of 10,000 yuan below the Centrino notebook, through comparison we can also find that many of them can only satisfy the Centrino and WindowsXP basic running configuration, not to say that the experience of Centrino superiority, the big deal is that the battery life of the strong point, but the performance of the same price than the P4 model may be a lot worse.
The key is to look at your needs, and if you are particularly fond of the new experience technology you need to support your pocket, do not buy the cheapest new product. The super cheap Centrino may not always be able to match the performance of some of the P3 laptops in the same price range. In this age of buying wrong and selling wrong, we must grasp the principle of "enough is enough", there are so many good things, the trend can never catch up.
First of all, they buy a laptop is used to do what, on the machine performance, mobile performance, battery life and some of the requirements, and then slightly expanded on the basic requirements, basically you are more suitable for the machine.
Taboo No. 3: haphazardly cut the price
Many people in the free market to buy things to buy more, used to the "waist a chop, and then 20% off" shopping theory, to buy a laptop is desperately trying to pay back the price, but also a little bit of the price of course it is good, can be, after all, making money is not so easy. Give a little less, they can spend a little more in addition. However, you have to know to buy a laptop is not to buy food, 2000 years ago to sell a medium and high-end laptop is indeed earn big thousands, now these days not, only IBM, Sony and other such high-end brand profits are very high, general foreign first-line brands like Toshiba, NEC, Sharp's profits are also still relatively substantial outside of the majority of domestic laptop profits Not very high (certainly a lot higher than the computer city selling desktops).
I said, perhaps you are not very clear what kind of laptop in the offer below how much money, because there is no uniform standard. Can only be "comparison shopping not to lose", more walk, ask more, more see, of course, this is in the same brand in the same model, the same configuration to compare. If your time is very valuable, then directly find a good dealership reputation. The only thing you can do is to let people know that you're not in the business, and that you're wasting your time, and that you can't buy anything if you don't want to do business with them.
Taboo No. 4: Superstitious Reviews
Now all the big and small media have their own evaluation department, specializing in third-party evaluation of some products, and then the results of their evaluation through various channels published in the public. A lot of friends now buy digital products everywhere in the query related to the review. This is good, you can fully understand the details of the machine, as well as, but in addition to the choice of their own need to consider clearly, can not be obsessed with reviews.
Reviews are just a way for the media to provide users with advice on choosing from a wide range of products when buying. Can not let the review completely dominate your thinking, so we consumers should not see a review that this notebook is good ah, immediately selected this, everyone has different needs for the machine, only according to their own needs to synthesize the various aspects of the recommendations, so that we can really choose to a most satisfactory product.
Taboo No. 5: superstitious advertising
This point we do not expand in detail to say, the ultimate goal is only one, so that you pay out of pocket, seize the "our products are good ah", "buy our products affordable ah," to encourage the Consumers to buy. Borrowing a proverb "can not not believe, not all believe", in the letter and do not believe between, you need to test yourself, advertising selling point is not what you need to pay attention to this.
Taboo No. 6: blindly follow the big manufacturers
Even the big manufacturers, he also has low-end products, most of these products are not advertised by the big manufacturers is the configuration and quality, but the price of these low-end products are often equivalent to the price of mainstream products in the market, so don't be obsessed with the big brands, to be practical, to choose the right product for themselves.
Taboo No. 7: buy informal channels of products
The current market of laptop water goods is no longer the traditional sense of smuggling through the products, there are counterfeit products, refurbished products. There is also a part of the manufacturer's production for the Chinese region of the product, and did not enter the market through the formal channels of circulation, may allow a part of the consumer to produce parallel imports and the regular product is not much difference between the idea. But in fact, the harm caused by parallel imports is very great.
First of all, parallel imports of the operating environment and domestic users have a lot of places are not compatible, some of the parallel imports of notebook computers do not have a Chinese operating system, or with a pirated version of the Chinese operating system, and before leaving the factory to do the various compatibility, stability testing is not for the Chinese environment to measure is. There is also the keyboard is not in line with the habits of Chinese people, such as the Japanese keyboard and our layout is not the same at all, the operation is difficult to get used to, after familiar with the Chinese environment and not accustomed to.
Secondly, the water goods can not enjoy the genuine system recovery and special software to use and upgrade services.
Again, most of the parallel imports enjoy normal after-sales service, not to mention the international warranty. Most of the distributors of parallel imports are not fixed, and it is impossible to provide spare parts for replacement, while it may cost more to enjoy the after-sales service of regular channels and still not get fair treatment.
Finally, we need to consider whether the parallel imports are really cheaper and can save the cost of burdening for the laptop. You need to consider the cost of buying genuine software, after-sales service and other additional expenses. Therefore, in the process of purchasing a machine do not see around some buy a parallel-cargo laptop seems to be a little cheaper, go with the tide to buy that kind of informal channels of notebook, now assembled, refurbished are a lot of Japan has a professional IBM laptop refurbishment factories, refurbished through the informal channels to flow through the countries.
Taboo eight, do not open the box to carefully check and test the specifications
Some friends have seen after trying the prototype, feel more satisfied, the box are not open on the report to go away. Here we introduce a few basic check to verify the specification configuration steps for your reference:
1. Check the serial number on the label
Check carefully whether the serial number on the laptop's outer box matches the serial number on the machine's body. The serial number on the body of the machine is usually on the base of the laptop body, in checking the serial number at the same time, but also to check whether it has ever been altered, was re-posted traces. In addition, when you turn on the laptop, you should first enter the laptop's motherboard BIOS, check whether the serial number in the BIOS and the serial number of the body is consistent. Three numbers are consistent, the source of the laptop computer is basically no problem, if there is an inconsistency, are water goods or assembled goods undoubtedly. Formal channels into the domestic market of notebook computers, its official agent will generally be affixed to the bottom of the special label, write the product model. Such as IBM's ThinkPad laptop, the bottom of the machine has a product model and serial number, the last one of its product model is to end with C, said China. can enjoy three years of global warranty, so that even if it is to take out of the country do not have to worry about it, if not, that is parallel imports. Therefore, after selecting the book must first look for the label, on the number, otherwise, if the money with the goods to buy a water goods, not only the price of a big loss, but also can not enjoy a lot of services. Once the love machine out of the problem, that can be miserable. It is best to go online or call to check, more insurance.
2. Packaging
First, check whether the packaging is complete. General laptop after unpacking, there are power adapters, related accessories, product manuals, warranty vouchers (number and laptop number is the same), warranty card record card, etc. In addition, but also pay attention to the operating system recovery disk, installation disk with the machine on the operating system is consistent. Look, this a barrier to make forgery becomes difficult, so in the purchase must open your eyes, remember to look more carefully yo!
3. Check the appearance
Check the appearance of the laptop whether there are touch, rub, scratch, crack and other scars, liquid crystal display (LCD) whether there are scratches, bad spots, ripples, screws, whether there is the phenomenon of paint. When shopping should try to find a machine without bad spots, because bad spots on the LCD are likely to spread gradually. Appearance is also very critical, buy a new thing if there are scratches, it certainly does not look good.
4. Check the battery
It's important to note here that new laptop batteries should be charged no more than three times, and the charge should be no higher than 3%. And usually the dealer will not insert the battery during the test run, but connect it directly to the power outlet. If the battery is too high or has been charged and discharged too many times, it is at least a machine that has been used, and Sony and IBM's battery management software can tell how many times the battery has been charged. In addition, there are also some specialized testing software we will talk about later, this must be tested on the spot to prevent future problems.
Taboo of nine, do not check the accessories and gifts
In the purchase must also pay attention to carefully check the box attached to the product accessories, attached to the operating system and drivers, such as whether the same with the instructions of the kit description. Also check whether there should be freebies, such as backpacks, USB flash drives, mice, and memory for some brands.
If the product confirms that there is no problem, and then try to operate the operating system is abnormal; multimedia playback sound, image is normal; MODEM/LAN Internet access is normal; cooling fan work is normal; laptop mouse positioning is normal; transformer (ADAPTER) charging is normal; fan noise is acceptable and so on. In addition, if the laptop is also equipped with a DVD drive, it is also necessary to check the DVD drive to read the disk. If it is a CD-RW, its ability to burn CDs should be tested.
Nowadays, there are more promotional activities of each manufacturer's agent, which usually sends some practical things, such as wireless LAN card, bags and so on. Don't forget to ask the dealer for Oh, this is not to take white not to take, the cost has been calculated to your head.
The taboo of ten, no written after-sales service commitment
Laptop and desktop are not the same, belong to a very delicate kind, so after-sales service is very heavy. Regardless of the brand, it is important to consider in terms of the laptop, its maintenance is how to promise. When you buy, do not be confused by PL's MM rhetoric, pay attention to ask these things, after-sales service period is how long, after-sales service specific content is what, repair and replacement cycle is generally how long.
Generally speaking, notebook products are mostly based on 1 year free replacement parts, 3 years of limited after-sales service, most of the product repair and replacement cycle in about 15 days. When choosing a notebook is recommended to choose a better after-sales service of some imported brands and domestic products, such as IBM, Lenovo, Founder, Acer, Asus, Toshiba's products to implement the after-sales service are very good. And IBM in this regard launched the Blue Express service, the national 3-year warranty, and in contrast to the domestic, in the quality of maintenance and repair stations set up by the manufacturers there are still a lot of road to go, especially want to buy just entered the field of the brand's friends must be inquired about the after-sales service problems and then shell out the money to pay through the bill there is no regrets.
After all, ten thousand yuan of consumer spending is not a small amount, and then the good quality can not guarantee that a few years without problems, therefore, in the money out of the business before you do not forget to ask for a written warranty commitment, that is, to get a copy of the business to produce a formal warranty vouchers. Check the quality of the warranty of the conditions are reasonable, confirm the business when the goods have problems, whether you can return or exchange, repair, and at the same time to confirm the warranty period, repair location, send repair time, etc., Oh, but also to finally check the warranty whether there is a seal of the business. Don't make trouble, a lot of things unexpected yo.
Additionally, some friends to buy a laptop when the time does not care about anything, just run a few sellers, a hard than the price and ignore the other, is also very important. It is also very important to make a good budget before buying a laptop, so that you can manage your pocketbook. Well, this article ends here, want to buy a laptop friends should go out when the shot oh!