The “Break it Down” Blog

I was looking around the web at some laptop’s from different manufacturers and while some are so clearly laid out from lowest to highest (Apple) others seemed to be named in a completely random fashion, making it impossible to tell a damn difference between them without seeing a side-by-side comparison matrix (Lenovo, Samsung).

Are these companies incapable or realizing that a person, looking for a laptop, just wants a laptop? Maybe they could break it down by use case or just stick to what folks used to be able to do: tell which number is higher, and that’s the better model.

Now have a look at the Samsung page and tell me which laptop you want. Go ahead, take a look at that entire page and tell me if you have any inkling of what those model numbers mean. That’s the frustrating part… because they mean nothing and indicate no progression between each other, you might as well not have any labels… which means that might as well be a flat list of 20 pictures, with a link at the bottom saying “Choose your computer”… completely useless and confusing.

*sigh*

I was surprised to see that Dell’s laptop page is actually pretty straight forward. Higher the number, the better. Good deal.