Let’s face it — shopping for the right laptop can be exhausting, and weeding through brain-wrecking terms like CPU, GPU, and SSD is enough to make your eyes cross. Add in the fact that gamers will want to look for different specs than students, who will want different specs than content creators — and you have yourself a conundrum.

We’ve compiled this guide to make buying your first laptop, or next laptop, a breeze. We explain the confusing computer jargon, so you can pinpoint the specs that fit your needs, and then we dole out recs for two different but equally awesome GIGABYTE laptop — the GIGABYTE GAMING A16 and GIGABYTE AERO X16 .

CPU, GPU, SSD, OMG!

Before you start sifting through specs, it’s important to understand what some of the more common tech terms mean.

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