Macbook Air, Macbook Pro or a Windows laptop?

It is. But instead, you could buy two or three windows laptops (one of which should be quite pretty). Then you could take the cheaper laptops apart to get the bits that look pretty and then stick those onto the expensive laptop (i'd recommend using cellotape or super glue as they're transparent, but also have the right level of stickyness). So then you have a powerful laptop that looks pretty. As a final step, you could buy some stickers to stick on there to make it look even better. You would probably still have some money left over to buy pens and paper or a lawnmower or something.

It's an extreme comparison but not a stupid one. The difference between a Mac and some of the other laptops suggested in this thread is more like £600 not a couple of hundred. I'm not denying that people have a right to buy them or enjoy owning them, just don't expect me to enthusiastically endorse them when asked what laptop I'd recommend to a student who's just going to use it for browsing and documents.

Do you have any windows laptop suggestions?

Do you have any windows laptop suggestions?

I'm guessing you don't mean for use in the way mentioned in my previous post .

What are the main things you're looking for? Battery life? Weight? Prettyness? Touch screen?

A light pretty one with a long battery life would be nice.
When I say a Windows laptop I mean a laptop that runs windows not one of those laptops with all the colourful boxes like a windows phone. I've used one of those and hated it.

Bet half the people in this thread only buy tesco value stuff.



No comparatively priced windows laptop can compete with the air13 if you care about weight and battery life.

Would I not need something portable while at university? Do you think I should get a tablet as well as a desktop for when I need something portable?

Ignore that advice. Telling someone to bring a desktop to University is ridiculous. A laptop of some description is what you want.

Exactly, not to mention having to lug the thing around when you're off to Uni, then back home if you want to do any work during the holidays. Laughably bad advice.

Do you have anything other than attacking someone for their personal opinion?

No? Why would you? You've already demonstrated that you think you might need the portability for some reason but have absolutely no idea what that reason is.




Are you on drugs? Why must you have portability? And it's hardly "lugging" it around. You put it in the back of the care and away you go. You move it, what, 6 times a year - not exactly Atlas trying to haul the Earth around, really.


Umm... yeah? See post 2, where I provide some sensible advice rather than "OMG I LOVE MY MAC SO MUCH!". ****ing Macolytes.

If your requirements are light, pretty, and long battery life, I don't think you'll find anything that beats the Macbook Air at the same price.

The colourful boxes thing IS Windows. It can be disabled/hidden so that it works more like older Windows.

Bet half the people in this thread only buy tesco value stuff.
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Telling someone to get a desktop whilst at university it perhaps the worst advice I've heard in a while

I never said I expected you to endorse them, but as someone who only browses the web and reads documents, I don't at all think me owning a MacBook was an extravagant or unnecessary purchase and I doubt many people who own them do. If someone has the option to buy one, as OP said her parents were willing to buy it, then me saying that I love mine and would never get anything different is not an extreme comment to make at all. It's not as if I'm telling someone who has to choose between a MacBook or the mortgage, that would be silly of me.

Why?

You wouldn't download a car.

Why?

Because why would you want to restrict yourself to being able to use your computer in one place, whereas at least with a laptop (MacBook or not) you have the ability to use it wherever you want which most people tend to do these days.

Because why would you want to restrict yourself to being able to use your computer in one place, whereas at least with a laptop (MacBook or not) you have the ability to use it wherever you want which most people tend to do these days.

It's unnecessary in the sense that you're paying for additional processing power that you won't make use of. I understand that some people aren't bothered by that but I still think it's a valid criticism. I don't have anything against people who buy Macs, if you have the money and find them particularly appealing then why not.

Do you have an air? What do you use it for and do you feel that the weight and battery life are worth the price?

It's not my money but I'd feel a little bad if it turns out it was a waste of my parents' money (though they don't mind)

Oh come on, samba, that's a bit of a pretentious and snobby statement. I don't see what that has to do with the price of fish. Typically, students should, owing to the woeful state of their finances, be looking at value for money above all else in these situations.