This is my friend's Toshiba laptop. It only works upside down, with weights on its mainboard. The pic is just there for laughs, the poor laptop got cocoa poured all over it, and it suffered from serious overusage. Anyway, when I saw it while browsing my pictures, I thought that I'd share my tips about laptop brands, with some additions from my friends' opinions.

However, before I should say that this brand is good and that one is horrible, I must state that this is not that simple in all cases.

When we finally exit the shop with a huge box in our hands, all we want to do is to go home as fast as possible, plug our freshly bought computer in and experiment with it, right?

This is usually how it goes: people get excited when they buy new stuff. However, the Devil, and more importantly, the laws of Murphy never sleep, therefore when something can go wrong, it will. Here are a few tips to avoid the destruction of our PC before we even take it home.

Yes, that is very easily doable.

The above question raised so many battles between PC and Mac fans, but I will try to make my point without fueling this war too much. Most people know the basic differences between Apple computers and regular PCs: Macintosh computers have a different operating system, they look much better, and they are a gazillion times more expensive than a PC.

The question is: do you want to buy a Mac?

The following three posts will lay down some basic guidelines about buying a computer. These will be about the following topics (in order of posting):

• What to look out for when buying a computer (probably this will be posted in two parts to avoid having a wall of text)
• Macintosh or PC? (Spoiler alert: I'll say PC)
• Taking our freshly bought computer home

Let's start out with the most important one. You only need to answer a very simple question to yourself: What will I use my new PC for? This may seem an easy one at first, but it breaks down to many tougher questions which we'll go through now.

I'm in the middle of moving in to my new apartment, and on top of that, I got a terrible fever yesterday. Isn't this the best time for my first blogpost?

On a more serious note, I am Matthias, a BA student at Budapest, and you are reading EZ-Tec. This blog will mostly be about two things: IT support for total beginners (As we know, if something can go wrong, it will, and if we can solve a problem ourselves, why nag others?), and reviews of Budapest PC stores. These two will preferably alternate weekly, but as it would be ridiculous to have one post per week, I'll post more tips and tricks during weekdays. The blog will be mostly PC-orientated, that means we're gonna deal with a lot less Apple Macintosh stuff (however, there will be a post on when to buy one and when not to).

For starters, I think it would be appropriate to take a look at the numerous factors we need to take into consideration when buying a new PC. What are those fancy terms used to describe the parameters of a computer? How much do I need to spend on a decent machine? What is a decent machine, anyway? Let's find out, but first of all, we should have a look at the parts of a computer so these terms and abbreviations will not cause a headache later. Also, these parts will have the most influence on the effectiveness and the price of our future computer.