The school my daughter attends has a "bring your own technology" program. Basically, the students all need to bring their own laptop to school, and of course all kids at that age want an Apple Mac ("because everyone else has one so I need one too, and my friends say its the best one to get, and blah blah").
The only requirements the school has given is it must run Windows 8.1 or above, Max OS X 10.9 or above, support WPA2, between 11-15 inch screen, and weigh under 1.5Kg. Now I could go and buy a Macbook Air 11" for ~$1200 (1.6GHz/4GB/128GB), or I could use that $1200 and presumably get a lot more bang for my buck in some other brand Windows 10 beastie.
So what's a good spec laptop for around the $1200 price range, and any tips on how to convince the daughter she's better off without an Apple product even though all her friends will probably have one?
tell the little cunt that if she wants one she works for it. buy her a shitty chinkpad as a lesson
Brody Reed
THINKPAD H I N K P A D
Brody Walker
Your wife's daughter, you mean..
Eli Stewart
Why are you buying a kid a 1200 dollar laptop when a 200 dollar laptop will work identically?
Carter Williams
Find a school that isn't shit.
Connor Ross
When I was buying a laptop for college I originally was going to buy some windows laptop instead of a macbook because I thought I could get more bang out of my buck and that macbooks were overpriced. That turned out to be a mistake, bought a MacBook Air and do not regret it.
Charles Nelson
Dell XPS 13
Luis Johnson
2nd hand 2011 mac airs are a great machine - plentiful and affordable
t. 2011 256gb 2.7ghz i5 4gb ram mac air - debian + cinnamon user here
