If you currently don’t own a portable laptop, then you may not understand the frenzy about size. Normally, bigger is better. However when it comes to laptops, the situation is a bit more complex than it is for a car.

Again, there are other irrational factors that come into play when buying a laptop – just like with many other assets. Just when your pockets are itching with money and you want to buy a great laptop, you get bombarded with people offering you differently sizes and each giving you a different lecture about size and functionality. Hoping that you don’t have much money now to make you confused, lets look at the relationship between size and other laptop features.

Size and Functionality

Generally, laptop manufactures aim to come up with laptops by compressing the features of a desktop into a laptop. However, this is not an easy exercise as it requires greater technology than for a simple machine. So, the general rule is simple: the smaller your portable laptop, the less functions it has. This is usually the case for the development of mini-notebooks which have got many functions and features of laptops removed so as to bring down the prices. On the other hand, gaming laptops are usually bigger in size compared to the average laptop because they heat up rather fast. This means that they need a larger cooling system compared to the average laptop.

Size and Portability

Portable laptops should be just that – portable. In fact, this is their single most important advantage over desktops. Obviously, the larger the laptop, the bulkier and more difficult it is to carry around the large laptop as it would mean carrying around a few extra pounds. On the other hand, the smaller the laptop, the easier it is to carry it around.

3. Cost

The issue of cost is also pretty confusing. Here, size and functionality must come together before you can determine the effect of size on cost. The smaller your laptop, the more portable it will be for you and the more difficult it will be for the manufacturer. This means that you will be getting more benefits –portability, while the manufacturer will be incurring the cost of expensive technology. Automatically, this translates to higher prices for smaller laptops with the same functionality with their bigger counterparts; however, having a smaller laptop may also mean giving up certain laptop features so as to get the cost benefits – as it is with mini-notebooks.

4. Power consumption

The larger you portable laptop is, the more likely it is that it consumes huge amounts of energy. This comes because the functions of a large laptop may demand more power compared to that of a much smaller laptop.

Like any other machine, there are more than just one or two things that are needed to be considered when buying a new machine. You must be able to balance between convenience and functionality if you are to have a machine that will serve you for a long time.