What's the perfect laptop for a college student?

What's the perfect laptop for a college student?

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The one that can resist water spill and cost less than 200$

Macbook if you want to have friends and casual sex.

This, also one that is light and has decent battery life. I.e. not a meme gaming machine
t. uni student

Memepads don't hold anyhing bigger than a few drops of pure water.

T420?

How useful is a surface pro for note taking and such?

Heavy enough to bash chads and tyrones in the head and soft enough to leave any visible bruises

X230

thinkpad or elitebook or latitude

>cheap (won't have to worry about breaking it)
>comfy screen size
>comfy resolution( 1366x768)
>looks like a piece of shit so no one will steal it
>powerful for the price
>tough (drop it and will still work)


>taking an expensive laptop to school

only a retard does this

use pen and paper

Seconding except for
>comfy resolution( 1366x768)

No one likes that shit.

it's for college. why the fuck would you need anything better than 1366x768?

Porn it is college after all

Tbhfamalam a chink android tablet with a Bluetooth keyboard is all any typical college student 'needs'

Reading and writing texts for longer than half-hour.

Macbook Pro is the most comfiest
>Pages for writing papers
>Best environment for programming if CompSci student
>2560x1600 screen, 16:10 aspect ratio
>god-tier trackpad
>aesthetic as fuck, bitches and faggots turn heads
Macbook Air is also comfy as fuck if you can stand the awful screen
Thinkpad T420 is also just as good for different reasons

Underrated

Dell Latitude with 12.5 inch screen
its keyboard is the best you can get on a laptop

Thinkpad T420

Cheap, powerful, easy to type on. All you need.

Cheap

t. mactoddler

Thinkpad X201 or X220. They are small, have great keyboards, and long battery life. And perfect compatibility with Linux.

1366*768 is pretty okay on a screen sized 11.6~12.5

Not an issue.

i used my SP4 this year to take notes. works great. battery lasts all day, onenote is great, and you don't have to carry a shit tonne of books.

>Macbook if you want to have friends and casual gay sex.
FTFY

I don't have friends & casual sex but I have a macbook
wtf I hate Apple now

In college you're a lowkey loser if you don't use a macbook. Get the 2015 rMBP for best results.

Who actually believes this?

Everyone at most US colleges.

found the lowkey loser

Getting a macbook is the most basic and overrated machine for a college student, and not to mention overpriced.

Get an ultrabook like an Asus Zenbook or an Lenovo Ideapad. You get a lot more bang for your buck.

>TFW got a razer blade
should have got a surface or a 2015 rMBP. Just end it lads

>gaming laptops
>school

lmao

Wtf, have you even approached another gay man? Just say "hey, I have a macbook, wanna fuck my butt?" 99.9% of the time the other Mac user will say yes

What's wrong with the blade? I heard the keyboard and trackpad are kinda meh, but the keyboards on macbooks and surface machines are dogshit. Otherwise, I've seen pretty positive reviews for the blade. Is the battery life terrible because of the dGPU?

I know this feel. I bought an MSI GE60 my senior year of high school. The things way too heavy to transport back and forth to school and the battery life is terrible. I now plug an external keyboard, monitor, and mouse into it and it acts as a desktop.

Then I got even more retarded and bought a Macbook 2015. The screen and battery life are the only redeeming aspects.

If I were to go back and do it again, I'd just buy a desktop and x220 w/ a good battery and throw linux or windows on it.

>have friends
>have casual gay sex
>have macbook
Can confirm.

>pure water

LEL APPLELFAGS BTFO

Id like a laptop that has a good battery life and is light. Everyone i ask says buy a macbook but i hate the os. If i found one used for cheap could i just through mint or ubuntu on it or would that be a pain

The Asus ultrabooks are pretty nice

The zen line is their ultrabooks right? Do they all run windows 10?

If it's coffee or something sweet, the keyboard is ded

due to its retina display for design and npm friendly system for server side javascript web apps, i'd say the Macbook Pro

he gets it

refurbished latitude or thinkpad ~200-300 dollars every other answer is wrong

it's also the correct answer to every "what laptop should I get for ___" question

As someone who used to review laptops for a living the Zenbook line is not really advisable. The keyboard is utter shit and so is the trackpad. And for a laptop those things are going to be your interface for everything 99% of the time that you're using it.

It doesn't matter how thin they market it to be, not to mention the fact that Windows 10 is the default OS on them. The hardware is not the best and the software is garbage, so you're kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place.

The best way to go is really get one of the more recent older ThinkPads and run Windows 7 on it. Otherwise, just get a 2015 MacBook Pro or MacBook Air.

A college student that does't need graphics design only needs a cheap, sturdy machine. I would recommend a cheap intel chromebook. Chromeos fills most student's needs, and linux can replace it if you need more control/resources/freedom.

Ive never used a chrome book but it sounds like if i dont use googles products it will be a pain. They look worth checking out. Can you sell me on one?

>pay 30k for a semester doing some unemployable meme degree
>pay 2k for a shiny expensive laptop you'll use to.... browse Facebook and type documents

Why do Americans make such silly financial decisions?

My 150 dollar Thinkpad got me fine through uni. It can edit text and send emails.

I used a Chromebook as my main laptop for a while last year. If your browser of choice is Chrome you will be right at home on a Chromebook. You can have some apps available offline if they're on the Chrome App Store. The battery life is actually incredible. The main problem I had with it is that I really required the use of certain programs that were only available on Windows. One example is MS Paint, and another is gedit which is my preferred text editor. If you can live in Chrome, you won't have any problems at all. And if you can follow simple instructions you can even install Ubuntu via chroot with a USB flash drive.

when a guy says he needs a laptop for school, he means a gaming laptop. he just uses the school thing to justify buying one.


you don't need a powerful laptop with high resolution for school

This. They're also easy to repair if you break a component

old model macbook air

I invested into a meme gaming laptop (MSI Leopard Pro) and so far it hasn't disappointed me yet

even the FUCKING BATTERY LIFE is oke since my university has plugs everywhere

No 'real' software would be a problem, can't imagine not having access to a decent writing environment.

Same here. Inspiron 17r se. Upgraded the ram to 16gb and put a 500gb ssd in and the thing is incredible

>What is the perfect utensil for eating food?

Sure, some work for more situations, but every person has different needs.

Does the student want to game? Do they already have a gaming desktop they're bringing?

Does the student do graphics design, or architecture?

Will the student likely use macOS software for their studies?

Will the student be in harsh environments with the laptop?

Does the student need to be able to draw things accurately? Only the occasional finger-sketched circle or arrow on a chart?

How much money does the student have? More importantly, what is the specific budget?

I own a mbp and I agree however I had to cover the glowing apple to feel better

xps 13. small, lightweight, god-tier battery, sexy and has windows (some uni professors actually write their own programs for their class which is by default only windows)

android tabs with a keyboard maybe for some liberal arts major but not for anything with engineering.

This, macOS is great for students.

Thinkpad X301

Fast enough for doing research and writing papers

Too slow to do anything fun and distracting

Small and light

Rare

thinkpad

Lenovo Ideapads are junk. X, W and T series are the best Lenovo Laptops

College students don't need laptops. Use a fucking notebook and your desktop PC at home.

Faggot.

You aren't even allowed to enroll at the school of engineering at NCSU without a laptop.

What laptop should an engineering student get? I've got a budget desktop (fx6300 and r7 370) but I'm looking to get a laptop for school that can run solid works decently well and has a nice battery life

How much money can you spend?

I don't want to spend a whole lot, I'm really just looking for suggestions at a few different price ranges

15" RMBP with Radeon Pro 455 for $2800 would be a solid choice

used thinkpad.

Acer C4W4
CPU: Intel Celeron N3160, 4x 1.60GHz
RAM: 4GB DDR3L
SSD: 128GB
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 400 (IGP)
Display: 11.6 " , 1366x768, non-glare
Connections: 1x USB-A 3.0, 1x USB-A 2.0 802.11a / b / g / n / ac
Bluetooth 4.0
Cardreader: SD
3220mAh, 48Wh, 12h running time
1.40kg
fanless
Windows 10
280 euros
Did I good Sup Forums ?

X220

Dont forget its also thin and light

Chromebook. My gf had a default dell laptop and her world changed when she got the lenovo chromebook at a steal price of 150$. Does all she wants (especially now with office 365), good battery life, instant boot, sturdy. Used thinkpads of that price range are unattractive, heavy and don't have comparable battery life.

thinkpad x220 dual booting windows 7 and Linux

>apple is gay xDXDXDDD

T420 w/ i7 - $150
4GB RAM to total it to 8GB - $30
500GB SSD - $130

For $310 you have what would be almost one of the best laptops you could. I got through school with a t60, something like a thinkpad is much preferable to an ultrabook

>T420 w/ i7 - $150
Which planet do you live on? One with a i5 retails at $300

>cares about keyboard quality
>recommends fucking macbooks
The trackpad is good, sure, but the keyboards are shit

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>Which planet do you live on? One with a i5 retails at $300

Dude what. i5-2520 T420s are barely $100 laptops any more. I'd sell you mine for $300 if you think it's worth that.

I just bought a whole bunch of i5-3360 and i7-3540 Latitudes and Elitebooks for around $125-150 each on eBay.

>almost one of the best laptops you could

Yeah, almost. I replaced my T420 with an E6430 because Lenovo never figured out how to make a screen that isn't dark and washed out as fuck. Got tired of going to a client's place and their laptops were actually easy to read.

Well, for me taking notes and browsing the web, I've found the screen fine. I don't really think there's a need for extreme color accuracy unless you are doing work that requires it, but that's just my situation.

for someone in college, a laptop over 3 pounds and a screen bigger than 14 inches that is thick is a bad buy and you are going to regret it when you have to carry 3 5 pound books everywhere around campus.

you dont have to spend a $1000 on one, you can get a a t440s cheap these days on ebay.

For me it wasn't anything as complicated as color accuracy. Just that the Dell screen had actual white and black and the Thinkpad was shades of gray. And the brightness could be turned up twice as high. So much easier to read stuff.

Same situation on all the T420s and T520s I've worked on.

is the vivobook a meme or is it good?

Huh. I never noticed it being that extreme. Is it just the crappy TN ones? Or have you tried any of the IPS ones?

It's not good enough to be a meme.

It's terrible.

Never seen an IPS Thinkpad in the wild. I image it'd be a big improvement.

Asus aspire e15
It has a really long battery life, 8gb ram, an SSD, 1080p screen, and is only like $500.
Also comes with a gt 940MX which is better than an integrated card.

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its not color accuracy, its just much better contrast that ips is capable of

if you actually looked at a ips vs a tn display, you would be saying different. The TN screens on old thinkpads arent even good fora tn, they are pretty downright awful and something you would see on a $200 laptop.

I literally only have to write on it really

>college student
>doesn't know what machine to buy

God, you're all fucking hopeless.

anything with good battery life that is relatively small and portable, macbook air is a good option and a ton of college students have one but it is not necessary to shell out that much

Just get a Mac like every other basic bitch

>Le retina screen meymey.

1366x768 is ok for work. Why do you need more for?