War of the Laptops
July 25, 2007

Laptops made life really easy. Today you can have you entire office with you. In bus, train, airplane or anywhere you can be connected with everybody and do your work through your laptop. Initially laptops were considered as heavy gadgets and people were more inclined to have regular desktop only. Another reason for this inclination was the price of the device. At that time at the price of one laptop you could have bought as many as 3 desktops. So it was quite obvious that people were preferring desktops. Since that time there were few manufacturers who were there in laptop market so competition wasn’t that high and people has less choice for a laptop. And if you wished to buy a laptop then you had to go to a single dealer and without any choice you had to buy that laptop. But with time things have changed drastically. Now laptop is no more a big thing for anybody and it has become a ubiquitous gadget today. From students to the working class, everybody is now relying on their laptops for work. And the thing which made this possible is the competition in the laptop manufacturing market. Now you can find numerous companies dedicatedly designing and distributing laptops. If this gadget is becoming popular then the big hand is of the manufacturer to make it so. So now the big war is between the laptop manufacturers who are trying their best to allure more and more customers to buy their product.
From slimmest laptop to a laptop with leather covering for that impeccable design, companies are trying every possible trick to have more customers. Today the major laptop brands are HP, Compaq, Apple, Sony, Toshiba, Fujitsu and many more. After the invasion of the Korean companies, laptop has become a familiar word in every house hold. And thanks to Apple and Toshiba, laptop has also become a style statement, something which shows how powerful you are. Like any other gadget laptops have also gone under various changes in their design and features. And still manufacturers are trying to put things which can give them more customers than what their competitors have.
If we take a look at the recent developments in laptop then we cans see how these gadgets have influenced the buyer’s choice. Even if the buyer had any other need but he compelled to go for a particular laptop. Apple is always busy in making its Macs the best possible gadget in the market. With the advent of Macintosh, geeks got a new style of mobile computing. If Apple launched its new operating system for its laptops then how could our other manufacturers stay silent? Sony introduced the slimmest laptop which is the most attractive model any one has ever seen. Loaded with many features this laptop is an epitome of craftsmanship. So the war is still on and only geeks and these manufacturers know when they will take a halt.



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