Whats the best laptop I can get for university, I don't have a maximum price, but I'd prefer to have it less than £1000. I want something I can use to watch films and emulate games. I don't need an absolute power machine but would like something good. Was thinking of an older macbook
Whats the best laptop I can get for university, I don't have a maximum price...
Also would like a decent amount of storage, at least 500GB and a 1080p screen
just buy a thinkpad x1 carbon
Shameless self bump
macbook pro
Another shameless self bump
Mac pro
seems quite pricey for a model with a bigger HD
These seem like the safe option, any tips for buying an older model?
this wasnt even me haha
the absolute state of Sup Forums
if your poor get a used macbook air (no older than 2013 otherwise expect shit battery due to no haswell battery gains). though if you can spend to or a bit above your limit and want something that will have even better longevity look at the current version of the 12" macbook
X230, new 9-cell batt, SSD, 8 or 16 GB RAM. Try to find one with an IPS screen or upgrade it yourself if you're adventurous. Run Linux
A good chromebook with a replacement ssd and flashable firmware to remove chromeOS and install Linux.
I might get the top end Macbook Pro from 2016 or 2016, but im not sure where to get a good deal on it
academic discount can get a 10-15% discount. otherwise i'd recommend looking at apple's own refurb store. reconditioned by apple and sold with warranty
agreed, apple refurb is best deal. never bought a new apple computer.
All the ones on the refurb store are the newest models. I want a model with actual USB ports
why not just go for the TB3/USB-C? I get dongles, yes, but in less than a year everything will be USB-C.
I understand that, but those models are a little cheaper too and I'm not really prepared to pay £2,000 for a model with 500GB HD
Muh nigga
I need a small notebook/tablet with keyboard for school stuff.
Should I go with
Lenovo Miix 300-10IBY
or
VisionBook 9Wi Pro
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iPad Pro
>Whats the best laptop I can get for university
$200 or less Thinkpad from ebay.
Anything else is a waste of money.
>iPad Pro
Out of my budget
that's dumb. you're never going to use those ports anyways. everything is wireless or on the cloud.
when i bought my first macbook air in 2011 i bought a shitload of dongles (ethernet, vga, usb hub etc) but ended up never using them. ever. sat in my fucking laptop messenger bag untouched for years. because there's always a better way to do things that doesn't involve external devices. fuck i hardly use USB sticks on my desktop. haven't in years. i permanently keep windows ISOs on them for whenever i need to inevitably reinstall Windows on a family members malware ridden PC. on my mac? i use airdrop to move files around and dropbox and my own file server for that shit.
you don't need a laptop for university.
2017 iPad and a $20 bluetooth keyboard. Not even shitting. It's a great device.
That's still out of my budget
Thinkpad X-/T-2XX/3XX/4XX (tablet would be a bonus). You need a mobile computer to make .doc, .xls, and .pdf, and "hello world" programs if youre a CS, nothing more. what til after school to build a gay-mer, 3d porn rendering desktop; you don't need one, especially not now
underrated
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>quite literally 3h of battery life
>chinkshit
cuckbook air, not even memeing
>just buy dongles
>you won't need USBs at college
Holy shit fuck off.
Is a nexbook flex 11 windows 10 even feasible to be good with its specs or does that shit need to go in the trash?
>64gb of space
>2gb of ram (holy shit)
>Intel Atom Z3735F processor with 1.83ghz clock rate
Ebay sells then for 100 bucks a pop.
name one use case where you're going to need to plug shit into your laptop frequently enough to justify intentionally buying older shit. for reference i'm a fucking developer and occasionally fill in for devops and have managed fine without
Acer has some pretty decent laptops with 1050s in them for about 1k.
>xps 13 with better chassis and keyboard
>shit specs
>just as expensive
fuck dell
Half off, business line is better anyway
Sabre 15
thinkpad t420 desu
I'm not doubting that, but fucking core m
thinkpad x200
Is Umax VisionBook 10Wi Pro good enough for Office stuff, HL1 and porn webms?