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How to Buy a Laptop Computer

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Summary: When buying a laptop computer in a computer store, retail outlet or on the Internet, look for the best deals on certain days. Hear about the best days to buy a laptop computer with tips from a computer technician in this free video on computer hardware.

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Chris Bryce is the owner and operator of Super Computers Sales and Service located in Georgetown, Texas. He took his computer technician and systems management background and went into...read more

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"Hi, I'm Chris Bryce from superservice.com. Let's talk about how to buy a laptop computer. The best way to go about buying a laptop computer is either online or in a local computer store or even sometimes retail outlets such as Wal-Marts and Targets and that. The best times to buy a laptop computer if you're buying online, in my opinion, is to buy on a Wednesday or at the end of a month. Those seem to be when you get the best deals online. If you're buying in an actual retail outlet, for some reason, in my experience, its best to buy on Mondays. Places like Wal-Mart and Target and other companies tend to have deals that happen on Mondays and allow you to get sometimes several hundred dollars in savings on that laptop computer. Also a thing to look at is bundles. You may be looking at going out and getting a laptop and then you were going to buy some software and maybe a case and you thought about getting a printer. If you're planning on doing these things anyway, you may want to look at some of the retail centers for or electronic stores for buying bundle packages that might save you a ton of money. Sometimes the laptop itself may be say 699 dollars, but if you get the bundle that has the case and printer and everything with it, you might only spend 799 or an extra hundred dollars to get all of those extra things that might be a 3 or 4 hundred dollar value. So it might behoove you to look at getting the better value in a bundle than in saving a little bit of money on just the system itself by going online or finding a deal somewhere else. That's the best way to buy a laptop computer."

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