About PriceGrabber.com and Best Selling Laptops and Notebooks

In a previous post about laptop buyers and Microsoft Windows where I argued a point made by Preston Gralla on his post about the same topic, I mentioned PriceGrabber.com related to best selling laptops. Now it’s time to go deep into this matter. PriceGrabber.com is an online comparison shopping engine with approximately 26 million consumers each month and up-to-date daily pricing of products supplied by more than 12,000 sellers. It’s pointless to say that we cannot provide a best selling laptops list from PriceGrabber.com since this is only an online shopping comparison engine and he cannot track online sales made on online stores that PriceGrabber.com is monitoring. The tool provided to online shoppers instead is a most popular list that tracks the clicks on items provided by its users. The conclusion is that PriceGrabber.com tracks the online shopping intention and not the actual transaction closing between buyer and the online shop. Considering the purpose of PriceGraber.com engine I think that this information can be reliable though. Most of us do not visit an online shopping comparison engine if we do not actually want to buy something. So, from now I will take a look at PriceGrabber.com’s most popular laptop list. Initially I wanted to use the most rated list too, but since the top rated product in laptops list is Powerbook G4 notebook I believe that this list is not relevant to our purpose. Below I present u the Top 15 Most Popular Laptops on PriceGrabber.com on April 12th, 2008:

1) Toshiba Satellite A205-S5804 Notebook
1.6GHz Intel Pentium Dual-Core T2330, 1GB DDR2, 120GB, DVD±RW DL, Windows Vista Home Premium, 15.4" LCD - MPN: PSAF3U0NR00V
2) Asus Eee PC 4G Surf Notebook - Black
900MHz Intel Celeron M 353 , 512MB DDR2, 4GB SSD, Linux, 7" LCD - MPN: 90OA01A20102111U305Q
3) Apple 13.3" MacBook Air Notebook
1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB DDR2, 80GB, Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard, 13.3" LCD - MPN: MB003LLA
4) HP (Hewlett-Packard) F750US Notebook
1.9GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 TK-57, 1GB DDR2, 120GB, DVD±RW DL, Windows Vista Home Premium, 15.4" LCD - MPN: KC489UA
5) Apple 13.3" MacBook Notebook
2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile, 1GB DDR2, 160GB, DVD±RW DL, Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard, 13.3" LCD - MPN: MB063LLB
6) Apple 15.4" MacBook Pro Notebook
2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile, 2GB DDR2, 160GB, DVD±RW DL, Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, 15.4" LCD - MPN: MA896LLA
7) Apple 15" MacBook Pro Notebook
2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB DDR2, 200GB, DVD±RW DL, Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard, 15" LCD - MPN: MB133LLA
8) Asus Eee PC 2G Surf Notebook - Blue
800MHz Intel Celeron M 353, 512MB DDR2, 2GB SSD, Linux, 7" LCD - MPN: 90OA02AC0004111U105Q
9) Asus Eee PC 4G Surf Notebook - White
900MHz Intel Celeron M 353, 512MB DDR2, 4GB SSD, Linux, 7" LCD - MPN: 90OA06A40101111U105Q
10) Sony VAIO VGN-FZ240E/B Notebook
2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile T7250, 2GB DDR2, 250GB, DVD±RW DL, Windows Vista Home Premium, 15.4" LCD - MPN: VGNFZ240EB
11) Dell Latitude D600 Notebook
1.3GHz Intel Pentium M, 256MB DDR, 20GB, CD-ROM, Windows XP, 14.1" LCD - MPN: D600
12) Apple 17" MacBook Pro Notebook
2.5GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile, 2GB DDR2, 250GB, DVD±RW DL, Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard, 17" LCD - MPN: MB166LLA
13) Sony VAIO VGN-CR320E/R Notebook
2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile T7250, 2GB DDR2, 250GB, DVD±RW DL, Windows Vista Home Premium, 14.1" LCD - MPN: VGNCR320ER
14) Apple 13.3" MacBook Notebook
2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB DDR2, 160GB, DVD±RW DL, Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard, 13.3" LCD - MPN: MB403LLA
15) Sony VAIO VGN-FZ340E/B Notebook
2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile T7250, 3GB DDR2, 250GB, DVD±RW DL,Windows Vista Home Premium, 15.4" LCD - MPN: VGNFZ340EB

On latter posts I will cover the notebooks that I didn’t reviewed on this blog yet.

Sony VAIO VGN-NR240E/S back on first place on Amazon.com best selling laptops folowed by Apple MacBook MB403LL/A

Today, when I checked Amazon.com best selling laptops i found that Sony VAIO VGN-NR240E/S is back in 1st place in best selling notebooks top. It is folowed by Apple MacBook MB403LL/A for some time so it is time to say something about this Apple toy.

Now i will bring you it's main features:
· 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3 MB shared L2 Cache
· 2 GB (two SO-DIMM) 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM; 160 GB 5400 rpm Serial ATA hard drive; 8x Double-Layer SuperDrive
· One FireWire 400, two USB 2.0 ports, DVI, VGA, S-video, and composite video (requires adapters, sold separately)
· Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) Ethernet; Built-in AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11n); built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) module
· 13.3-inch (diagonal) glossy TFT widescreen display, 1280 x 800 resolution; Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard

I will post latter more on Apple MacBook MB403LL/A.

Online Consumers Prefer Smaller and Lighter Portable-Style Laptops

On March 18, 2008, PriceGrabber.com® published a survey that research portable-style laptop trends in its latest Consumer Behavior Report. Results are based on a survey of 1,868 online consumers conducted in late February 2008. PriceGrabber.com defines portable-style laptops as weighing less than six pounds and having a screen size of less than 15 inches measured diagonally. Of the 72 percent of respondents who indicated owning or using a laptop, 58 percent own or use a portable-style laptop. The consumers who owns different laptops for different use: work/school and personal use, carry the burden of traveling with multiple laptops. Of those surveyed, 38 percent need two or more laptops. The demand for portable-style laptops has increased over the past year as more consumers find it unpleasant to carry around the standard-size laptop. 88% of respondents say they would consider a portable-style laptop when purchasing a new laptop and 44% of online consumers say they would travel more often with a laptop if it were smaller and lighter. 46% of consumers stated that performance is the most important feature to consider when purchasing a portable-style laptop. Of the nine percent of respondents who anticipate spending more than $2,000 for a portable-style laptop, 62 percent said they value performance as the most important feature, while 11 percent value battery life and nine percent value weight. PriceGrabber.com also reveals that Sony Vaio was the highest year-over-year traffic of the most popular portable-style laptops on the market, between January 2007 and January 2008. PriceGrabber.com is a major online comparison shopping engine, with approximately 26 million consumers each month and up-to-date daily pricing of products supplied by more than 12,000 sellers.

More on Sony VAIO VGN-NR240E/S laptop, Best selling notebook on Amazon.com

More on Sony VAIO VGN-NR240E/S as best selling laptop on Amazon.com. If you buy this computer you need to know that Sony does not support Windows XP downgrade on this line so those who want to do it will have to work for it, and the maximum RAM upgrade is 2GB on every Sony Vaio NR Series notebook PC specifications sheet I have read. The estimated battery life is between 2.5 and 4.5 hours. In a November 8th, 2007 review by Jerry Jackson I found few interesting good to know facts about this Sony Vaio NR laptop series. He discovered a design flaw a battery wiggle and bad screen vertical viewing angles. About heating and noise he noticed that Sony Vaio NR laptops run extremely quiet and the bottom side gets a bit warm when running, but comfortable enough to keep the NR notebook on the lap. The dimensions 10.6 x 14.2 x 1.5 inches and the weight of only 6.2 pounds makes this laptop quite portable although you might encounter some problems fitting it in some smaller 15.4" notebook bags.
Main Specifications :
1.6 GHz Intel Pentium T2330 dual-core processor, 200 GB hard drive, 1 GB RAM (2 GB max), 8x multi-format/dual-layer DVD drive
54g Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), 10/100 Ethernet, Intel X3100 video card with up to 251 MB of shared memory
Connectivity: 4 USB, 1 FireWire, ExpressCard 34 slot, Memory Stick & SD readers
Pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium (with Media Center capabilities)
Other: 1 Headphone out; 1 Microphone-in, 1 VGA
Preloaded software: Includes Sony Click to DVD (for easy DVD creation), Microsoft Works SE 9.0, Microsoft Office 2007 (60-day trial), Symantec Norton 360 All-In-One Security (with 60 days of Live Update).

Today's (April 2nd 2008) best selling laptop on Amazon.com

Today, 2nd of April 2008, the best selling laptop on Amazon.com is Sony VAIO VGN-NR240E/S 15.4" display Laptop (Intel Pentium Dual Core T2330 Processor, 1 GB RAM, 200 GB Hard Drive, Vista Premium) Granite. As Sony says on his website, the NR series was designed for everyday PC performance, a laptop for day-to-day productivity and entertainment needs, web surfing, working from home or building a media library of music and movies. This Vaio has the potential to be a good notebook. However an incredible amount of bloatware and rather sluggish Vista running may alter your Vaio NR laptop experience. Unnecessary software removal and purchasing of additional DDR memory will properly improve performance. The screen is pleasantly large and refreshingly crisp with vivid colors, Sony really knows how to produce superior displays. Expecting too much from the Vaio NR laptops line, an entry-level product line, is not a good idea. This laptop is not appropriate for power-users or serious gamers, but is well suited to surfing the Internet and watching movies. If you do not mind Vista, it is recommended for those purposes. Users may appreciate that almost everything is located on the side of the notebook instead of the back. It makes it easy to disconnect when you are on the go. In the end of this short first review of this Sony Vaio laptop I must notice the price which is half of what anyone normally pay for a notebook. I will be back latter with more details.