Many people today searches for the cheapest products because they know that, due to the globalisation and to open markets, the competition between brands and companies benefit the final consumer. A couple of years before, buying the cheapest computer could be a bad decision. But today, even the cheapest laptop offers the one that buys it ‘the same’ that would offer him the latest developed laptop on the market.
It is a matter of needs. If you are compelled by your work activities to have a powerful machine, you will have to get it. But nowadays even the cheapest laptops are suitable to perform tasks better than the most complex computers from the recent past, and the cheapest software from today can accomplish very well the aims for which it has been created. The current information technologies become day after day cheaper, since, day after day, computer scientist and technicians develop different gadgets and processes that ease the customer his contact to the technologies.
But not always the cheapest thing is the best thing. Take for instance the case of the cheapest hotel you found in an unknown place. A cheap hotel may be confortable, but not all of them, not every cheap hotel is a nice place to be, and some of them are just traps where tourists fall. Not good for a vacation... It may be a source of stress. Try to economize as much as you can, but don’t be sparing with the place you will pass the night...