You’ve taken a great deal of time and effort to choose the right shoes, a fashion-forward jacket, and co-ordinating bag. Your home is filled with designer furniture that costs a fortune for the price-tag alone, and your kitchen is a haven for Smeg fridges and Krups coffee-makers. Now it comes to choosing a new computer and you’re buying that nondescript grey box with a slot for the CD drive?

Why, when there is so much choice out there, do we limit ourselves to the things we know best? Today’s computers and gadgets come in a range of colours shapes and sizes – built to fit your requirements for both fashion and functionality. Here are just a few reasons why you should choose trendy gadgets over run-of-the-mill ones.

Think of yourself as a brand, and what the items you carry say about your “brand”. Turn up to a business meeting with a dodgy old laptop and you’ll probably just get a “look”. Arrive with a state of the art Macbook, and you don’t just benefit from the latest technology; it’s also a conversation starter that makes you appear more professional. Apple puts a great deal of thought into its simple, yet functional, streamlined designs – and you’d recognise its quality on first glance. Check out the range of tablets at Ebuyer to get ahead of the curve.

In general, your gadgets will be with you for several years at the very least, and what’s cutting edge now probably won’t look so great after that time has passed. So give yourself a head start. Choosing the newest designs means they’ll take longer to go out of fashion, which means by the time it is old news to you, the bargain buyers will only just be catching on.

As with everything else, you pay more for items that look better – but it’s what your gadgets say about you that makes the real impact.