In the market for a laptop? The holidays usually bring some great prices on notebook computers in all shapes and sizes, whether you’re shopping for a netbook for yourself or you’re looking for a desktop replacement laptop to connect to an external monitor at home and even do some mild gaming on. The extremely knowledgeable Cisco Cheng (who I met when i visited the PCMag offices last week!) has put together an excellent primer on how you should go about buying a laptop that’s right for you – what you should look for, what you should avoid, and how to decide whether the features are right for you specifically in a market where so many laptops come with the same specs and the same hardware under very different hoods.

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