Price Isn't Everything.

Here at The Webworks we pride ourselves in giving our customers what they want and not push what we want to sell on to them. We also believe in giving our customers the best in value for money, which is why we will not sell some of the budget machines our rivals do as their performance can be only a quarter of what a computer costing only 20% more would be.

Laptop, Desktop or Tablet?

Here is another great debate and here is our opinion

Laptops are very fashionable. They are portable, compact, convenient and appear to be cheap. but there are a number of serious down sides:

• In terms of power for your pound you get a bad deal with a laptop:
  
  • Drives tend to ber smaller in capacity.
  • Processors are slower. Typically laptops are ony around a half of the speed of desktops for the same sort of money despite looking the same on paper.
  • Due to their portability they are more vulnerable to developing faults. Modern, domestic grade laptops are built so shodily that many of their casings start to collapse before they are even 3 years old.
  • They are also much easier to nick steal than a desktop - a consideration if you are planning on equiping a son or daughter with a computer to help with their studying.
    
• There is much less that can go wrong with a laptop before it is not economical to repair:
  • Spill a drink on a desktop's keyboard and it's a tenner for a new keyboard. Do that on a laptop keyboard and without immediate action it will usually mean the end of the laptop and is not covered under most warranties.
  • Close the lid on a laptop with a pen on the keyboard and the screen will probably break. Costing between £100 and £200 to fix - uneconomical for some older laptops.
    Some laptops now have their RAM and storage soldered onto the motherboard. Meaning if the motherboard fails all data will be lost and unrecoverable.
• When a laptop can be repaired the costs are normally much higher:
  • Several times each week we see laptops that have had their power connector broken, usually by the power cable being tripped over or pulled out without the highest level of care. This typicaly costs £80 to repair but it is almost impossible for the same to happen to a desktop.
  • If the motherboard fails on a laptop it is usually, once again an uneconomical repair. but on a desktop it is normally a simply replaceable part costing as little as £60.
  • Laptops have very limited upgrade options. More memory and a bigger storage and that's about it when they are not soldered in place as is becomming more and more common. But, with a desktop the sky is usually the limit. If a new game comes out that requires a better graphics card it can normally be fitted in a matter of minutes.

If you think that laptops have their problems then you really don't want to know the problems tablets can have.

• Should the screen get smashed on a tablet that is worth less than £150 then you would be wiser buying a new one.
• Power socket repairs are even trickier and therefore can be more expensive than laptop socket repairs - sometimes resulting in the screen needing replacement due to it shattering when being removed.
• There are no upgrade possibilities on most tablets. Some but specifically not Ipads can have extra storage added in the form of SD cards, but thats it.
• If you think laptops are nickable then just think how easier it would be to loose a tablet.
• The storage in a laptop is usually removable so if the laptop dies the data can normally be retrieved. This is unfortunately not possible with tablest as their storage is fixed.

So when considering a new computer have a think about what really is suitable for your needs. If this list has left you confused then give us a call and we will gladly help you.