What criteria do you use when purchasing laptops and desktops?

[Madalam]

A workstation that was light weight that could be plugged into a docking station with only cable. The workstation could be plugged into the work office or the at home office with the same perphierals in both places.

[CPranathi]

i Consider always below points When Buying a Computer for professional work.
Processor
Hard Drive
Memory
Graphics Card
Operating System

[ManavModi]

The cost basically

[praveen]

Depends on the background behind the buy.
If for personal work, many factors like the usage etc. need to be checked and then shortlist the priority needs specs/cost etc.

If its for basic use then the specs may not matter and cost can be an consideration.

But if the specs need to be good, the cost will also be higher.

[Anuradha]

weight.

[Julio]

cost, weight, features and support.

[Ramesh]

Six things:<div>

1. Cost

2. Processor

3 Memory

4. HDD

5. Graphics card

6. O/S.

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[Anil]

For me its actul requirement then config for performance,Cost Durability & after sales support.

[RICK WILSON]

For Desktop:

Processor

Memory size

SDD storage

For Laptop

Battery Life

Processor

Memory size

SSD storage

Weight