Just about every month or so -- except around the holidays when it’s every week -- some PC maker ships a new laptop with a whole bunch of new specs that they try to convince you is absolutely the best one you should buy. The company rattles off a whole list of numbers and magical features (mostly AI-related these days) and hopes you’ll just buy it because it sounds fancy or powerful.

The truth is that the specs rarely, if ever, tell the whole story of a laptop and for most people, those don’t matter as much as they once did -- especially the storage.

Depends on what you use your laptop for

One of the most common questions I get asked as a tech journalist (mostly from my friends and family) is, "How much storage do I need in my laptop?" My first response is, “What will you use the laptop

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