What laptops are recommended for studying Medicine?

I'm looking for budget friendly laptops that are good when studying Medicine

Reply 1

Hi there,

From an academic point of view, your choice of laptop shouldn't make a huge difference. However, some important and practical features I would consider are:

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Lightweight and portable - you'll be carrying your laptop practically everywhere you go (lectures, labs etc.)

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Sufficient battery life to last you a day outside your room (up to 6-8 hours)

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Storage (I wouldn't go for less than 256 GB)

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Performance (I wouldn't go for less than 8GB)

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Touchscreen capability - this comes down to personal choice, some students prefer being able to draw annotations on lecture slides, for example)

I personally use the Lenovo Ideapad Slim 5i which I find to be adequate for all the above factors (except touchscreen) and general use otherwise.
It's worth looking for deals/offers from various retailers - I got mine for a hefty discount from Curry's. And be sure to check for grants that your university may offer regarding academic spending (for which your laptop should qualify).

Hope this helps!

Reply 2

issac01

Original post

by Methene

Hi there,
From an academic point of view, your choice of laptop shouldn't make a huge difference. However, some important and practical features I would consider are:

•

Lightweight and portable - you'll be carrying your laptop practically everywhere you go (lectures, labs etc.)

•

Sufficient battery life to last you a day outside your room (up to 6-8 hours)

•

Storage (I wouldn't go for less than 256 GB)

•

Performance (I wouldn't go for less than 8GB)

•

Touchscreen capability - this comes down to personal choice, some students prefer being able to draw annotations on lecture slides, for example)

Hi, thank you so much for replying. Would you say the LENOVO IdeaPad Flex 5 14" 2 in 1 Chromebook Plus - Intel® Core™ i5, 512 GB SSD, Blue is good. It's touch screen as well and I think on the cheaper side?

Reply 3

Kingston Maddie

Official Rep

Hiya!

I don’t know what your course entails exactly, but if you are studying biosciences there’s a good chance you might need to use a large protein/gene database software. I have listed some. check your course page for the ones they use but here's a few I've gained experience with.

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Also you might need to use R programming so see if your device has the capacity to download that. Also I know a few of my friends with MACs found incompatibility issues.
Although most universities would have computer labs you can use, some like my Kingston University have computers you can check out and bring home like a library book, so if your personal device isn’t capable, you can still complete your studies. It just means that you can’t bring your work home and your freedom to work at your most comfortable place will be restricted.

Best, Maddie (Kingston Rep)

Reply 4

ErasistratusV

Lenovo laptops are pretty good. Make sure it has 16GB of RAM. Most of them have 1TB of storage now, you won't use all of that for medicine as you'll be saving all your work to cloud based services (Uni might give you some OneDrive space and access to MS Office apps). 16GB of RAM is the most important thing to have to ensure your laptop is good to go for the next 10 years.

A touchscreen device you can use a stylus on may be your preferred choice for note taking in lectures in which case Apple Ipad or the MS Surface are two devices to consider. Try out devices if you can in Apple store or PC world/Currys etc before purchase.

You likely won't need anything too complex or unusual for medicine in terms of software. See my other thread, I always found a second monitor very useful as it allowed me to read a textbook or watch an online or recorded lecture whilst making notes or writing Anki cards.