In recent years, laptops have evolved pile in popularity compared to desktop computers. Various types of laptops are available depending on your needs. It is very easy to find (cheap) laptop that will meet your needs. The question is however, what you're looking for on your laptop? Do I want a long battery life on my laptop? Am I going to carry my laptop around a lot? These are all questions you should ask yourself before buying laptops for sketchup. In this post I will explain "laptop user profile" and this typical spec to be reckoned with for any of this profile.
Student
Typically students will be looking for a laptop that is cheap, compared to other categories of laptops. laptop will need to have good battery life (in the case of the possibility that you are the last to go to class, and all your classmates have been stalled power-outlet) and be portable (you do not want to get rid of your student 15 by hauling around bulky laptops, you would rather want get rid of it by carrying around a case beer..right?).
Often this results in a choice for a netbook or mini-laptop. This is a very good choice for frequent battery life of this netbook will be above average standard, and they are very portable. There are some points you should take in account though. The benefits that this brings the portability of a smaller-sized laptops also bring negative; screen / keyboard / CPU underpowered smaller. So you have to decide whether this is OK for you, will you be using software hardcore to work on projects of your school? Will you be using the laptop for 'afterschool activities' as well? Continues to these questions in the back of your head while you are looking for a suitable partner.
A good option is to look for a bit of 'greatness' netbooks, such as 13-inch laptop. These laptops typically have a larger CPU, and thus will have a little more power. I will not go bigger than 13 inches though, because it will start to have a major effect on the experience of portability.
Key suggested specification: long battery life, at least 1GB of RAM; 160GB HDD and <13-inch screen.
traveler
As a (business) traveler you will be looking for a laptop that has enough computing power, as well as portable and built into a sturdy case to keep all your work documents or pictures wonders of the world. A netbook will be out of the question in this case, because it only has to small computing power to keep up with basic needs in this category. A decent selection will be in the category of laptop 'portable' 12 to 15-inch laptop. Laptops usually have more powerful computing power, which is built a little more powerful and still very portable.
However, you will notice that these laptops often do not come with optical (DVD) drive. This should not be a problem for you, because you will be using USB and hard disk whenever you can as a traveler. This laptop is a little pricier than netbooks, but the performance in this category certainly make up for it.