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How To Choose a Laptop For Students

Author: John Laps
by John Laps
Posted: Feb 21, 2019

If you plan to use a laptop in high school or college, we recommend that you follow these tips when buying laptops for students to invest your money well.

Screen size

The space of the desks and tables of the university is usually reduced, so we recommend that you bet on a 13-inch model. It is a more than enough size and the laptop will be much more compact, something that will also benefit you to move it from one place to another constantly as it will weigh considerably less than one of 15 inches or more.

That is, if you are going to use the computer for more than studying (entertainment, games, youtube, etc.), you can positively buy a 15-inch one to enjoy a larger screen size to consume multimedia content.

Autonomy

Many times you will not have any plug nearby to connect the laptop charger so it would be advisable that the model you buy is capable of holding at least 6 hours of use or more.

As a tip, try turning off the screen or the Wi-Fi connection at those times when you are not using the computer. With this simple trick, you will be able to extend the battery life of your laptop for students exponentially.

Power

Unless you're studying a career that uses powerful applications such as the Adobe suite or tools like AutoCAD, you will not need excessive power in the computer. What we recommend is that when choosing laptops for students, bet on models that have SSD hard drive and you will notice a performance increase more than considerable.

Although it will depend on your budget, we believe that a good notebook for studies should have at least the following characteristics:

  • Processor: Intel Core i3 or higher

  • RAM memory: 8GB would be ideal. With 4GB you will go very fair on some occasions.

  • Storage: if you do not plan to save movies or music, I would bet on something with 128 or 256GB but SSD to gain speed by opening applications. If you need a lot of space, then you will have to choose a model with at least 500GB but HDD to not increase the price.

Graphic card

Unless you want to play or use very powerful applications that require intensive use of the graphics card, the integrated is usually more than enough in most cases.

Budget

Normally the budget we have when we study is small (although every time you see more college with Mac that easily exceeds the barrier of 1,500 euros), so it is important to choose a model that fits well to our needs and not pay for functionalities extra that we will not use.

OS

We know that as a good student you like Apple and want a Mac but be careful, not all the programs that are used in the education sector are compatible with the operating system of the apple computers, which would force you to install Windows on the Mac and In the end you will have paid an extra cost for a computer that could have gone much cheaper in any other manufacturer.

Our recommendation is that for studios to buy a laptop equipped with Windows because it is the most used system in the world and all software is developed for it. Only this way you guarantee that you will not have any problem to use educational programs and applications that you get at school, books, etc.

With DVD or BluRay reader or without it?

Every time there are more laptops that do not come with an optical unit since with the use of memory cards and USB pen drives, their use has been limited to very specific occasions.

The advantages of a laptop without a CD, DVD or BluRay player are its smaller weight, less thickness and one less item to break. The only disadvantage is that we can not insert the discs of the books with didactic material, although luckily, more and more publishers are uploading these contents to the Internet, so having a laptop with an optical drive will not be essential in most cases.

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  • subhasghosh  -  5 years ago

    nice article...it is very helpful to student who want to buy a laptop..i am also write some articles about laptop Huawei matebokk X pro hope it help to someone.

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