Laptop for uni

What laptops do you recommend for university, studying law

What's your budget? Would you rather have a big screen or something small and portable? Do you want to use it for anything besides your university work?

Hi @liberating-heart ,
The main thing you would want to look out for is weight and form factor. Personally I find a screen about 14-15 inches to be most comfortable, but it would be good for you to test out. I have a computationally strong laptop, but it's so heavy and I end up not bringing it to campus! Macbooks are really common and I had a Macbook Air that lasted me 5 years prior to this one. As for Windows, anything with an i5 and 8GB ram (though 16GB is a good upgrade) will be comfortable for lots of tabs and light games. @TNGFR makes a great point. The right laptop is very different depending on your needs, but generally for browsing and documents, you do not need something expensive. Make sure to make use of your student discounts (Lenovo, Samsung, Apple, HP, etc.) - I'm not sure if I would reccommend a secondhand if you don't know the seller.
Hope this helps,
Crystal (Lancaster University Student Ambassador)
3rd Year MSci Mathematics and Computer Science

Budget- max is like £500 pounds, big screen but portable not too heavy, university work and watching shows, but mainly just something with 16gb Ram, and enough storage so like 512gb

https://box.co.uk/x1605va-mb130w-asus-vivobook-16-intel-core-i5-laptop
This would be my choice. It's got the 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD you asked for alongside a solid processor with enough power for anything a law degree might involve, a big 16" screen for movie watching while still being the same size as a 15" laptop thanks to small bezels and lightweight for a laptop of this size at under 2kg.

Last week I bought a good condition used Dell Latitude 5520 (with an Intel 11th gen i5 CPU) for £145 off ebay. As a present for my girlfriend.
It weighs 1.6 kgs, has 16GB RAM and a 500GB SSD internal hard drive. I'll be upgrading it to 32GB RAM to take advantage of the additional graphics performance for this generation of Intel CPU that comes from having 2 x RAM sticks. And I've set aside £35 for a replacement battery.
This model of laptop can take 2 internal SSD hard drives, which is a really nice feature for future expandability.
I've installed Debian with KDE, as this is much better than clunky annoying Windows 11.
I will be migrating her data from her old laptop in the next couple days (including her browser favourites and cached passwords).
This model of laptop at £150ish would make a huge amount of sense for your needs liberating-heart.

What laptops do you recommend for university, studying law

Hi @liberating-heart,
I see that people have already suggested plenty of laptops too you which is good! My piece of advice is that it may be best to wait until after results day. This is because you can get student discount on a lot of laptops including MacBooks. This is via Unidays and student beans which you can sign up to using your university email when you receive it.
I hope this helps.
Jack,LJMU Rep.

Last week I bought a good condition used Dell Latitude 5520 (with an Intel 11th gen i5 CPU) for £145 off ebay. As a present for my girlfriend.
It weighs 1.6 kgs, has 16GB RAM and a 500GB SSD internal hard drive. I'll be upgrading it to 32GB RAM to take advantage of the additional graphics performance for this generation of Intel CPU that comes from having 2 x RAM sticks. And I've set aside £35 for a replacement battery.
This model of laptop can take 2 internal SSD hard drives, which is a really nice feature for future expandability.

I've installed Debian with KDE, as this is much better than clunky annoying Windows 11.
I will be migrating her data from her old laptop in the next couple days (including her browser favourites and cached passwords).

This model of laptop at £150ish would make a huge amount of sense for your needs liberating-heart.

That’s actually really smart, but I don’t have time or the brain capacity to do that, lol, but thanks for the suggestion

Not to derail OP's topic, but what do you think about the rising RAM prices? 👀