I'm going to college in August and I obviously need a laptop. I'm going into business so im not doing heavy tasks...

I'm going to college in August and I obviously need a laptop. I'm going into business so im not doing heavy tasks, however I want a decent, high quality laptop just for small tasks. I was looking at the microsoft surface laptop which apparently is a meme, macbook pro and the dell xps 13. Any other suggestions also my price range is $1000-1300

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Buy a T60 and install CloverOS on it.

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nice copy pasta but I dont wanna look like a faggot with that laptop.

> I'm going into business
Save the money for lube instead. Your saliva probably wont do.

Why not a MacBook? Honestly you will look like a poorfagget without one and it's the most popular choice for students as it's software is best suited for university

Windows is better for games

Just buy a Surfacebook to be quite honest fampai.

They're battery lasts all fucking day, even at max brightness.

ThinkPad T470
Look out for shops which give student discounts

the school im going to is like 50% pc and 50% mac.

>recommending apple-tier hardware without premium anything

going into business you need to invest in either a macbook or something silver and sleek.

i7 Surface pro 4

This thing has insanely good cooling for a laptop/tablet thingy.

Also the i7 iGPU has close to xbox one performance.

>it's software is best suited for university

kill yourself

Depends, are you a sociable guy? Do you like to appear "normie" to people around you?

If so, get a macbook or surface pro.

If you don't give a shit, save yourself the money and get an older model Thinkpad. I've had an X220 since sophomore year after my macbook shit itself and didn't have the cash for a new one. It's the best laptop I've ever owned.

All memes aside, do not buy a mac for university work. Too many productivity programs do not work on macs, and the mac version of Office software blows (e.g., Mac Office Excel can't do pivot tables).

Either or are fine. If you do buy a surface though, make sure you disable the extra core on the i5 or i7, because that's the literal NSA back door (thanks Eternal Blue).

which is good too because you can just switch to windows over Bootcamp when you need it. The good thing about Macs is that they are able to run anything on the market.

Fuck off Microsoft. That shit is not worth it with that meme keyboard. Seriously what retard would want the same material for clothes and purses on their keyboard?

>core 2 duo

That shit can't even handle Youtube. Fuck off.

get this motherfucker
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It's like $200 cheaper than what you could get on the app store

* Apple Store

Buy a Chromebook, they're cheap and will do anything you need.
If you won't then at least don't buy anything with windows pre-installed. It would just support (((them))). You can always download an "illegal" version. Plus, there are plenty of laptops with Linux pre-installed. Or get a MacBook.

Get a third party one then you fuck. Not that I have one but I'd rather deal with than than homOS X and it's constantly overheating 800MHz processor.

this is actually a pretty good answer cos most ppl who ask for laptop recommendations wouldn't really tell the difference between a bad or a good laptop to be honest

Fuck off with your gay fashion accessory. OP needs to do work not browse pictures of cocks.

>I am proving my point based on the newest MBP when it was first released.
>Totally the same after almost a year

Chuwi SurBook

It's really not that hard. If it comes with an apple logo on the back then it's trash.

Exactly. macs are gat trash

> mid 2015
> we are in mid 2017 already
wew lad

>0.8Ghz
my sides

> samefagging this hard
no one believes in your shitty memes m8

...

>Trottle
this is what happens when you outsource shilling to pajeets

Just get a Macbook Pro. OS X is the only usable desktop OS and most Windows laptops are awful and have equally awful support.

Xps 13 is the best and you can get a version with Linux pre installed.

Get Windows
Business students that have Macs are bottom-tier idiots and don't understand that all relevant business software is for Windows

Thinkpads are pretty good.
My only advice is to make sure you are comfortable with the screensize and the weight of it.
The 270 is supposedly quite good and is very light - get the cheaper model on the lenovo store and go with 8GB of RAM, 1920 x 1080 screen resolution, upgrade the battery to 72WH and get an SSD. However, the only sizes of SSD on the site are tiny for that laptop.
If possible, would you consider upgrading it yourself?

If you aren't then you can go with a t470 (not t470s or t470p) and get the upgrades I mentioned above with a 256SSD.

This, even apple themselves don't want to use their own software. They'd rather put up with gimped software ported over to their shitty OS than their own "professional" software.

Just buy a Thinkpad t470 or x1 carbon 2017. They are portable, light, sleek, and have all the ports you will need for college.

macbook pro, MS stuff is VERY buggy and Dell's is inconsistent, theyre both poor attempts at a premium laptop and they both feel cheap and half baked. You get a macbook pro you can be sure itll last the entirety of college and then some. Another benefit to macbook pro is how easy customer support is, every mall will have an apple store, dont have to ship anything around.

Heres my ranking:
1. Macbook pro
2. Dell XPS
3. Asus Zenbook (also buggy and have to deal with chink warranty)
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∞. Surface

I dont like recommending macs but theyre honestly the best option when taken all factors into consideration, ignore thinkpad cucks, theyre probably just autistic manchildren who refuse to grow up.

Fucking street shitters

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>t. mactoddler shill

You can also get the Xiaomi Mi notebook Air in new condition for less than $800. There are two US sellers on eBay for them.

Prioritize battery life. 2kg less to carry (the charger) is more than you expect.
Try to get something from Dell outlet. The quality to price ratio is very good.

13" Macbook Pro. Nothing else comes even close.

thinkpad t420

imagine how greasy and impossible to clean this cloth might be.

>I'm going to college in August and I obviously need a laptop
A good tablet should be enough for watching porn.

2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. Also, learn to play the guitar. You'll be able to get with sluts fairly easily.

>I need a daily work laptop that isn't going to be doing anything too strenuous
>LET ME SPRING FOR AN EXPENSIVE PRODUCT I WILL NOT GET MY MONEY'S WORTH OUT OF
Just fucking buy a Dell Latitude. None of the bullshit of "j-just buy a used t-thinkpad and UPGRADE EVERYTHING" or the living memes known as the XPS, Mac-anything, and Surface (the first and third targeting specific audiences, the second being an aluminum pile of shit). Don't even THINK about chinkshit.

Since we're on the topic of laptops, what's the difference between mobile i3, i5, and i7? I know on the desktop i3 = dual core + ht, i5 = quad core no ht, i7 = quad core + ht.

>Nothing else comes even close.

This. Nothing comes even close to being as utter fucking shit as Macs, not even Acer.

You’re trying really hard at this point

>You could have a Core 2 Duo in a Mac and it would still run better than if it ran Windows
>There are people who still use Core 2 MacBooks because they still just werk
>Windows machines can't compete in performance, so they need flaming, power hungry desktop CPUs to get anything done
I'm so sorry you have never used optimized hardware before, user.

>macshit
>optimized

lmao

Literally even MICROSOFT makes better drivers for Macs than the streetshitter hispers at Applel.

Fuck you I've got a laptop with that shit in it and it runs YouTube just fine take your bullshit somewhere else

2017 version is out nigger

>tests performed on a macbook in windows sucked
>performed much better in OSX
it clearly says this in the article... so fucking dont use windows on a macbook?

ipad pro 10.9, w/ onenote

>appleapple.top
wow what a source

>that broken English
POO IN THE LOO

>mountain lion OS
>2012
is this all you have?

Holy shit MS shills are out itt

Don't get a surface book, you literally can't replace the battery period. If you buy the surface book that means you will have a dead product in three years. Since you want something high quality get a mac.

>all this anti mac spam
>multiple recommendations for surface products

yup, you best start believing in shills

Only a burger would mistake they're for their

MacBook or MacBook Pro.

Surface is SHIT!

youtube.com/watch?v=xAI6yIZI3rg

>high quality
>macshit

lmao

How many bitches will be on my dick if I install debian or fedora on a Surface book?

asus zenbook

Many many trannies.

>business

Any laptop that was made in the past 10 years is good enough, and no one really gives a shit
If you've got a mac or a surface, that's nice but no one cares

Get whatever you like and be done with it

>don't buy anything with windows pre-installed
Heed this advice OP! You can likely get a license for free from your university if you need it.

Chromebook.

no apps

Why an XPS and not Precision?

Why do you need a laptop?
I swear this is the biggest meme I hear from college students. In 80% of my classes in my undergrad, I was told that we could not use technology in the classes and was basically just told to use a notepad and paper.

At that point it was a waste to lug around my laptop for the rare class that did let me use it in class, I would rather just keep all my notes in one place and use a pen and paper at that point.

If you sit on campus all day and essentially need a laptop between classes then that's one thing, but then I would ask you why you haven't moved your schedule around to be lined up so you don't have spaces between your classes.

Idk where you studied but where I live everyone sits with laptops now, especially in computah classes

I studied at Montana State.
I am currently doing my post grad at UC Davis (political science) and I've heard from their students the same thing, most professors hate laptops in class.

Again, I'm not a CS major, but neither is OP.

Go to bed grandpa.

wtf do you do online hm on?
do you have a fucking desktop?
you sound like a NEET that never actually went to uni and doesn't know shit

Yeah, I would go back to my apartment and do my homework on the desktop.

Why is a laptop needed for HW? Jesus Christ.

did you never have group work/meetings?
who goes back to their apt to do hw when you can do shit in the library/coffee shop/student union/etc in between classes
and why tf would you bring a desktop to uni instead of a laptop? infinitely less practical
you sound like the type of person who doesn't get out and always complains about being busy but doesn't take advantage of their time and puts off assignments for the weekends or some shit

That's a lot of ad-hominem and terrible grammar, did you go to college? Let me answer some of those questions.
1. As you can see from my original post, I did have a laptop, but I did hardly use it.
2. I didn't sit on campus because it's a waste of time. I lined up my classes to be one after the other so I could go straight from school to work. I went to college on my own dime, and took no debt.
3. I did have group work, that's when I used a laptop. But; if you've ever actually gone to college you'd know this, every other person in the group will have a laptop and it's always easier to get all of your work done on ONE computer so you guys aren't constantly needing to send re-writes and merging files.

AND FINALLY: I am always busy. I married young and worked a lot. I didn't need to waste my time sitting around and spending 5 dollars on coffee and doing all my homework on my 2,000 dollar MacBook trying to impress anything.

You sound like the kind of person who gets triggered that people live different lives than you, and are an angry person. Much love user, you need to sort yourself out.

>3. I did have group work, that's when I used a laptop. But; if you've ever actually gone to college you'd know this, every other person in the group will have a laptop and it's always easier to get all of your work done on ONE computer so you guys aren't constantly needing to send re-writes and merging files.
>doesn't use google docs
your group members should all be doing separate tasks, all of which would require them having their own machines
>spending 5 dollars on coffee and doing all my homework on my 2,000 dollar MacBook trying to impress anything.
i made no such assertion. you don't need to buy coffee to study on campus, and your laptop doesn't need to be a macbook.
i never took notes in class with a laptop, but to suggest that you dont need one, or that a desktop is a better solution is absurd