Man slightly confused while buying new laptop

A man has today been found "slightly confused" while trying to buy a new laptop online. The man, Archibald Jones, 35, was attempting to research and buy a laptop for himself, for various seemingly reasonable tasks, but found himself becoming increasingly lost in the confusing world of "technical specifications" and models.

"It was difficult," Mr Jones told us. "Not only were there multiple models of the same name of laptop, and by the same manufacturer, but they themselves had different specification versions, such as an i3, i5 or i7 processor, and of which there were still multiple further options; on top of this were configurations of SSD size and memory options. The difficulty was being able to transfer my requirements to this array of options."

When posting his frustration online, various commentators suggested that Mr Jones was "old" and "stupid" for not understanding the various makes and models of intel processors (of which there are at least 60 variants inside currently on-sale computers), with one commentator declaring that confusion was only possible if "you're a re*tard.". Mr Jones did, however, find help on Mumsnet, which joined Mr Jones in his one-man campaign for increased clarity.

"The thing is:" Mr Jones complained, "once you've chosen the make and model, there are potentially many further options. Then you start looking at price and things get weird - on Amazon, for instance, seemingly the same product can exist multiple times, each with different prices, and with different titles. So you go to the review and the review model is completely different to the one on sale. And before you know it, you're looking at a different make and model altogether only to find that has the same problems! It's a crazy world out there." 

Mr Jones attempted to contact his congressman before we reminded him that he was in the UK and needed to contact his MP instead.