You know, a month ago, I uploaded the “Watch
this BEFORE You Buy a PC!” to Youtube. Thank you very much for your interest and
for your comments. By the way, I’m reading them all. But in the comments many people asked me to
make the same video for laptops. So I decided to make this video. I will try to give you all the information
about laptops in the video, but if you are not computer-related, you can take note of
what I will tell you, it may seem a bit confusing to you. Then let’s get started. without knowing about laptops. You got up in the morning and went to the
computer store to buy a laptop. Upon arriving at the store, a store employee
greeted you. He asked you what you wanted. You said “I need a powerful laptop for work
or play”. He recommended this laptop model to you. You looked at the laptop in detail. You saw that the graphics card was something
with “mx”, you thought it was a very good card, then you looked at the processor, when
you saw that the processor was i7, you said ok, this is the laptop I was looking for. You didn’t look at the price in other stores
because you were too impressed with the laptop. You bought the laptop and then went home and
installed the programs and games. But you didn’t get the performance you expected. The performance you get in games is very bad,
and the rendering times in programs take a long time. But you still think you’re getting the best
laptop you can get for this price because you don’t know about laptops. Is the processor model of the laptop good? Is the graphics card good? Is the ram capacity of the laptop enough? You don’t have the slightest idea. Actually, you could have bought a better laptop. but you bought a weak laptop model that is
not enough for you. It’s not just these. Because you didn’t do price research from
other stores, you bought the laptop for $150 more than its normal price. Welcome to the club of overpayers. So what should you do to avoid joining the
overpayers club? Actually, the answer is very simple. You need to have some knowledge about components
such as processors, graphics cards and RAM in laptops. In this video, I will explain the components
to you as much as I can, but first we need to agree on a few things. 1) Desktop or Laptop? If you have a budget and you plan to buy a
computer in this budget, desktop PCs that you can buy for the same price are more powerful
than laptops. Because the engineering work of the components
in laptops is more costly than desktops. As a result, laptops cost more than desktops. Therefore, if you do not travel a lot and
do not need to move the computer, building a computer is much more advantageous than
buying a laptop. I think you understand this. 2) Purpose of using the laptop. You need to decide on the purpose of using
the laptop. Let me put it this way: We have several scenarios
in front of us. In the first scenario, there are laptops for
gamers. If you’re going to play games, the most important
component is the graphics card. Of course, the processor is also important
for you, but you do not need an incredible processor. When we move on to the second scenario, the
laptop will be used mostly for performance-requiring tasks such as 3d modeling, video editing and
rendering. So these laptops will be for rendering. The important component for us in this scenario
is the processor, but now you also need a good graphics card for these tasks. But why? We know that while playing games, we can get
higher performance according to the performance of the graphics card, but why is the graphics
card important in rendering? Let me explain it to you this way: Until a
few years ago, render engines were able to render mostly using the cores in the processor,
but now render engines use the cores of the graphics card instead of the processor cores. Although this is a newer technology, especially
in the 3d rendering industry, many of the render engines can now render with the graphics
card. In addition, rendering using the graphics
card takes much less time than rendering using the processor. That’s why I find the graphics card as important
as the processor in this scenario. By the way, let me give you another important
information. For this scenario, you need to choose a laptop
with nvidia graphics card. Because the cores called “CUDA” in Nvidia
graphics cards are very performant in rendering. You may be a little confused by this point,
but don’t worry, you will understand it all. Let me also say this: in this first and second
scenario, they both have the disadvantage of short battery life due to the high power
consumption. Therefore, in these two scenarios, we use
the laptop mostly plugged in. In the third scenario, there are laptops that
will not be used for gaming and rendering, less power and long battery life to be used
in the office. You have to choose a scenario that matches
your purpose. You have 5 seconds. Now let these 3 scenarios stay here, we will
come back to them. Let’s take a look at some components. 1) Processors. If you looked at the laptop models, you may
have seen names such as i5, i7, Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 in the title. These are the processor models found in laptops. Ryzen processors are produced by AMD, the
processors on the other side are produced by Intel. The performance hierarchy in Intel processors
is as follows: i3 includes entry-level, i5 mid-range, and i7 and i9 high-end processors. The same hierarchy exists in AMD’s Ryzen processors. We understand this info, but I see some numbers
and letters next to the processor, what do they mean? For example, let’s take the processor in this
laptop as an example and examine it. Now we look at the 4th and 5th digits from
the right. These numbers will show us the generation
of the processor. One, two, three, four and five. As you can see, the fourth and fifth digits
show the number 11, so this processor is an 11th generation i7 processor. So, does the performance increase as the processor
generation increases? Actually, that’s not exactly the case. But of course, there are newer technologies
due to the later release in a newer generation processor. We understood the processor and generation
connection. Let’s continue to examine the processor in
detail. Now listen carefully to what I have to say,
this is very important here. As you can see there is a letter at the end,
the letter “H”. What does this letter mean? At the end of the processors you will see
things like “H”, “G1”, “G7”, “Y” and “U”. These are very important for you to choose
the laptop you will buy. Processors with the letter “U” at the end
are processors designed for low power consumption. These processors are not very performant,
but they provide long battery life. This allows us to use these laptops for a
long time without being connected to the charger. So if you see the letter “U” on the processor
of a laptop, know that that laptop is designed for low power consumption. Let’s move on to the letter “Y”. Processors with the letter “Y” consume even
less power than processors with the letter “U”. So they are ultra low power consumption. The letters “G1” and “G7” indicate the level
of the internal graphics card in the laptop. The internal graphics card of the processor
with the G7 is more powerful than the processor with the G1. Of course, the processors I have shown so
far are not very powerful processors. We can’t get a very good performance. If we are doing things that require performance
such as playing games, 3d modeling and rendering, we need to choose processors with the letter
“H” at the end. Now let’s put these processors in the scenarios
I just showed. This is the current state of the table right
now. If you remember, I just told you that the
processor is very important for rendering. So how can I compare laptop processors according
to their rendering performance? First of all, I go to Google and type “laptopsreviewer
cinebench r23” in the search box and search. I go to the site laptopsreviewer.com. After scrolling down a bit, I click on this
option. And in front of me are the laptop processors
lined up. The rendering performance of these processors
decreases from top to bottom. Let me explain in a way you can understand
better. For example, a laptop with a 12900HK processor
gives better rendering performance than another laptop with a 6800H processor. You can take advantage of this list of processors
when choosing a laptop that fits your budget. Let me even tell you how to choose the laptop. Let’s choose a processor here as an example. I choose the 12900H processor. I am searching for i7 12900H laptop on google. It lists laptops with 12900H processors for
me. I check laptops but these laptops are out
of my budget. I go back to the list and select another processor
at the bottom of the list. I do the same search for this processor. And I find these laptops fit my budget. So the best laptop processor I can buy at
this price for rendering is 12700H. But there are two different laptop models
that fit my budget. So which one will I choose? Here you need to choose the graphics card. 2- Graphics Cards. First of all, know this: There are 2 most
preferred manufacturers for graphics cards. One is AMD, the other is Nvidia. If the graphics card has RTX, GTX, Quadro
in its name, this card is produced by Nvidia. If the card has RX in its name, this card
is produced by AMD. RTX series cards developed by Nvidia are known
for technologies such as ray tracing and DLSS. Ray tracing is a technology for creating realistic
images that calculates reflections in the image. If you are interested in this technology and
you say “it is indispensable for me, what would I do without this technology”, you have
to choose laptops with Nvidia RTX cards, because this ray tracing technology does not work
very well on AMD cards at the moment. It even works pretty badly. On the other hand, if you are interested in
rendering, you still have to choose a laptop with an Nvidia card, because if you remember,
I just told you that the cores called “CUDA” in Nvidia cards are very performant in rendering. Therefore, it will be much better for you
to choose Nvidia cards. So how do we compare graphics cards? How can I know which card is more performant? First of all, know this: in a video card series,
the higher number of video cards is more powerful than the other. For example, 3080 is better than 3070 and
3060 is better than 3050. So there is no list of it? of course there is. I typed “laptop gpu benchmark list” in the
search box and searched. I clicked on the site “laptopmedia.com”. When I scrolled down, I saw a list of graphics
cards. The performance of the graphics cards here
decreases from top to bottom. If you have noticed, there is the letter “w”
next to the graphics cards. This tells us the maximum wattage consumed
by the graphics card. Of the same two graphics cards, the model
with higher wattage is more performant and consumes more power than the other. As you can understand from here, not only
the “model” of the graphics cards is important, the watt values consumed are also important. You can find out this consumed watt value
from the specifications of the laptop. Now let’s go back to the render laptop, if
you remember we were undecided between the two models. As you can see here, one has an RTX 3050 TI
and one has an RTX 3060 graphics card. The laptop with the RTX 3060 inside is more
powerful. I choose the laptop with RTX 3060 and add
it to the render category in the table. We chose our render laptop. Now let’s move on to the gaming laptop category. As I said before, our first priority in a
gaming laptop is the graphics card, not the processor. So I go back to the graphics card list and
here I choose a graphics card from the top of the list. For example, we can look at the price of laptops
with 3070 Tİ graphics cards. I found a model that I can afford, and I’m
adding it to the game category. By the way, you can play games on the laptop
we chose for rendering, you can also render on the laptop we chose for the game. In other words, there is no rule that rendering
is not possible on a gaming laptop. It’s just a matter of preference. For whatever purpose you will use the laptop,
you can choose it. Well I understood everything so far but other
components like ram, ssd and laptop screen are not important? Of course, they are important but because
the options are more limited and it is easier to choose, I want to tell them all together
quickly. 3-Ram. For today’s games and programs, you have to
buy a laptop with at least 16 gigabyte ram. I even think that after a few years even 16
gigabyte ram will be insufficient. Even now, I can get insufficient ram errors
in my detailed after effects works. Therefore, the laptop you will buy must have
at least 16 gigabyte ram. It is true that you do not need high-capacity
ram in games, but when it comes to rendering, even 16 gigabyte ram can be insufficient. But 16 gigabyte ram is enough for entry level. 4-SSD. My advice to you is to buy a laptop with at
least 512 gigabyte ssd. The size of today’s games and programs has
increased a lot, so buying less than 512 gigabyte ssd may be the wrong choice. Over time you may have to delete something
to free up disk space. 5- Laptop Screen. If you are going to play games with a laptop,
it will be much better for you to buy a laptop with a high screen refresh rate. Because playing on a screen with a high screen
refresh rate, especially while playing competitive games, increases your performance in the game. For this reason, I recommend you to buy a
laptop with at least 144 hertz screen for gaming. But if you’re not gaming and need more accurate
colors, you need a screen with high color accuracy. There are standards such as NTSC and sRGB
that have been developed to determine this color accuracy. If you look at the detailed technical specifications
of the laptop you will buy, you will see the percentage values of these standards. This means that this screen can display 72%
of the NTSC color gamut. The higher this percentage value, the more
saturated and accurate the colors are. Therefore, you need to choose a laptop with
high color accuracy. Of course, it is a hard to find all these
features together, but if you have a budget, you can solve this problem by buying an external
reference monitor. Now let’s move on to the laptop in third scenario
. I have already explained the processors in this scenario. In such laptops, there are special series
of known brands. For example, Msi’s Summit series, Huawei’s
Matebook series, Lenovo’s Thinkpad series, Asus’ Zenbook series can be given as examples. You can look at the laptops in these series
and decide on the laptop you will buy according to your needs. Now we have finished the whole table, but
I would like to make one more addition to the work and render scenario here. If you remember, I told you that in first
and second scenarios we would have to stay plugged in because it consumes so much power. But I want to do my work and render at high
performance without being plugged in. Also, I don’t play any games. For this, we create an additional scenario
to this scenario and add Apple’s Macbook series here. By the way, know this: There is a problem
with most windows-based laptops: If we want to get full performance from the processor
and graphics card in these laptops, we have to use it plugged in. Because after unplugging the laptop, the processor
and graphics card reduce their performance to save power. Therefore, we cannot get high performance
from these laptops without being plugged in. On the other hand, old macbooks with intel
processors are not included, but the new Macbooks with M1 and M2 processors are both incredible
performances and can give this performance for a long time without being plugged in. Therefore, if you travel a lot and do not
play games, you can look at macbook models with m1 and m2 processors. Also, let me add something. If you are interested in music production
programs such as fl studio and Logic Pro X, you do not need a powerful graphics card,
but you need a powerful processor, so you can look at new Macbook models. Now let’s finish the video, but before that
I want to say two things: If you say “bro, I am not interested in computers,
I did not understand anything from this video, what should I do”. Laptop has chronic problem? Can you get a better laptop for this price? get the answers to the questions. And look at the price of the model you will
buy from many stores, do a price research