Back to school - Laptops beat netbooks

Visits to laptops in August confirm that small, powerful laptops are the back to school favourite, with 3 times more visits than netbooks, reveals Twenga, the new generation shopping search engine.

The two most-searched for models this August were the Dell Inspiron N5010, and the Acer Aspire 5732Z. Top screen sizes are 13” or 15”, as opposed to smaller 8”-12” netbook screen sizes. Back-to-school shoppers are after well-performing laptops of around 4GB RAM, with sizable hard-drives from 260GB to 500GB for storage. The most popular colours are purple, white, pink, orange and brown, as parents and students snap up hot deals for the new term.

Visitors to Twenga can compare over 14,000 laptops from 460 online shops.

Top 5 laptop
screen sizes
1 13"
2 15"
3 12"
4 17"
5 20"

Top 5
laptop colours
1 Purple
2 White
3 Pink
4 Orange
5 Brown

* Statistics based on visits to twenga.co.uk for the month of August 2010