What would be the best student laptop?

Question

What would be the best student laptop?

Answer 1

I had a toshiba satellite for my sophomore and freshman years of college and it was pretty good.



However, I'm in the process of buying an HP tx2500z tablet pc. I think that this may be the best for students because the ablity to use the stylus to write directly on the screen makes it great for taking notes. It is also a very attractive style for young people; I think it's cute, at least.

Answer 2

Everyone will mention a specific model based on their experience. Generally you should get a laptop with a core 2 duo cpu at a speed of over 1.66ghz and 2GB of ram, especially if it comes with vista.



The popular ones right now are:

*MacBook

http://www.apple.com/macbook/



*Dell (Inspiron-Studio-XPS)

http://www.dell.com/



*HP

http://www.hp.com/

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I personally prefer Thinkpads from Lenovo to the other ones, but they're not cheap.

http://www.lenovo.com/planetwide/select/selector.html

Answer 3

It really depends. Some Liberal art major student will satisfy with the most basic laptop or even a 3-5 years old used laptop, becuase mostly they do is typing paper, and facebooking. (no offense if you are going to be one.) But if you are a Computer Science, or Engineering student, they probably need to use the laptop for drafting, AutoCad or things like that, and they need a high end computer. So.. it's really depend.



But overall I would suggest to buy a Dell, with the Intel processor, dont get the AMD, coz 5 out of 6 of my fd use a AMD laptop have overheat issues and coz the laptop to froze or even damage the CPU.



They are very reliable, they don't have all those fancy preinstall on your computer to slow it down. ( I personally using a Sony laptop, and it got all kind of fancy preinstall, which is no use at all. I end up need to get rid of the preinstall and install a new window myself which is suck, time consuming)



Apple will not be a good buy, coz they are not compatiable with all the computer at school. I have fd using a ibook and make a powerpoint but since the school computer don't have quick time, so none of his picture and chart show up, and he end up fail this project. honestly it could be a more stable station, would you buy a more stable computer but you need to go back to school and use the library to type paper or powerpoint? Your call.

Answer 4

HP. They really are the best. I have one and i haven't had any problems. It's fast and reliable.



Good Luck

Answer 5

Get a dell

Answer 6

you know what i had an HP pavilion , best lap top ever, great for school work, music and all other kinds of entertainment , it never gave me problems. and hp has alot of features what other brands dont . try it out you will have fun

Answer 7

Anything but a dell.Buy a hp pavilion instead.

Answer 8

PCs they are number one in universities. Macs are good for graphic arts majors

Answer 9

anything from Dell. they're very good.

Answer 10

It's hard to specify a model because even one model will come with different options - yes, lappies are just like cars. You can easily get a cheap lappie, but whether that's a good idea is another thing. The cheapest MacBook (not the Macbook Pro) configured with 3gb of RAM and 3 years of Applecare will easily exceed $1200. But a cheaper system with comparable performance on paper could crap out on you. Another problem is that you can get a cheap system to run on Vista (unless you go to Dell or buy something used, you'll have to get Vista) but whether that system is really optimized for it is another story entirely.



I would recommend -

Core 2 Duo, at least 2ghz

3gb RAM

I'm not sure what size HD is sufficient these days, but try to get one that spins at least 5400rpm - anything else is too slow.

When it comes to graphics, go for integrated grapics over those from a "discrete" card. IG are weaker than those you'll get from an add-on card, but they consume less power and generate less heat than cards do, and IG lappies tend to be smaller and lighter and cheaper than those with graphics cards. You won't be able to do any modern gaming, but you'll get more work done than that guy with the Alienware Area-51m (and that guy will probably be getting nothing done.)



If you're going to college this fall, that's a prime buying season for laptops - but many campus stores offer decent discounts (just don't sign up for those credit card offers).

Answer 11

Cons: There is no doubt that windows has flaws but too many people here still think macs don't have or are safe from viruses. OS X is essentially a free operating system called freeBSD which apple knew had a very low marketshare. They based OS X off of this completely but did some messing about to make it 'look nicer and be easier to use'. Through this, they ruined (somehow) the security of one of the most secure OSes around and started calling it unique and different. In an official hacking competition OS X came out third behind vista (yes, vista is more secure) and Linux in a round to check how secure they were. More and more viruses are emerging for OS X but macs, at present have no good protection or antiviruses. Vista is a heavily guarded house in a rough neighbourhood with a high crime rate while OS X is a poorly secured hut in a neighbourhood with a steadily rising crime rate. Both BSD and Linux are forts in the middle of a safe neighbourhood. If you're too thick to notice, neighbourhood=viruses and security. Macs used to profess that they were secure. Get a thinkpad (most reliable make around) and install a Linux distro.

Answer 12

Well I am a student in maryland and I just bought well my boyfriend just bought me a dell XPS model M1530 and its the best...it has a fingerprint security on it which I love and its just all around a great laptop. You can do so much if you are a gamer or to someone who just do a lot of work in general. I am a accounting major and it works great.

Answer 13

Why on EARTH would you want



Viruses

Intrusions

Spyware

Trojans

Adware?



Not quite sure what you mean by "the lone software".





Office for Macs is identical

The OS is just better (it'd take me forever to list the reasons why).

All formats are compatible

You can get a 2.4GHz MacBook for around $1,200 with a student discount (as well as a voucher for a free 8GB Touch or 8GB Nano).



If you could elaborate on what you mean by "lone software" then I'd be able to assist you more...