Student notebook recommendations

LandyMan said:
Hi all
So apparently 15" notebooks are too big for the students to use in lecture halls. Excluding Macbooks, what recommendations are there from students/parents of students that had to look at getting a notebook for their studies.
Thanks
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11-13" then which most schools opt for. The only issue depending on what they doing is the lack of numpad but you get those seperatly if it is a issue. Except Asus machines that have embedded numpad / calculator to the touchpad.

Depending on the need if its good to avoid celerons or pentiums and go for at least core i3 8gb ram min 16gb is a good sweet spot depending on the workload with a Solid state drive either be a 2.5" sata or a nvme either will do fine above 128gb better.

in AMD would be Ryzen 3 if not in intel core i3.

I dont see much options for 13" etc except this 14" but its going to set you in the R20k region
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Same with this 13.3" asus

ASUS ExpertBook FLIP|B5302FEA-I716512B0X|13.3'' OLED FHD|BLACK|I7-1165G7|16GB DDR4 (OB+SD)|512GB PCIE SSD|Stylus|NumbaPad|WIN11P​

Busy listing these should be R22 600 at the time of this post (yes there is stock)
Link to asus since im still busy with the asus listings
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ExpertBook B5 Flip OLED B5302FEA Business Laptop

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Notice its OLED as well so great with colours maybe a bit of a waste for basics
 
backstreetboy said:
Cloud storage is where it's at.
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Depending on the cloud some require you to physically have the same physical storage as your machine

Onedrive by microsoft gives you 1tb if you have a 365 sub which doesnt require physical storage of this size (ive customised it aswell to sync D Drive folders to sync with the laptop from the desktop
icloud requires physical storage (yes works on windows)
google drive unsure dont use it suspect the same as Dropbox
Dropbox last i checked requires physical storage size.
 
Tech Guy SA said:
Depending on the cloud some require you to physically have the same physical storage as your machine

Onedrive by microsoft gives you 1tb if you have a 365 sub which doesnt require physical storage of this size (ive customised it aswell to sync D Drive folders to sync with the laptop from the desktop
icloud requires physical storage (yes works on windows)
google drive unsure dont use it suspect the same as Dropbox
Dropbox last i checked requires physical storage size.
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My 10tb Pcloud don’t. It mounts a drive under P: .
 
Jackal46 said:
Apple is good, just expensive. I don't use them because of Apple tax.
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Most laptops in the likes of Game and IC have small batteries that only last 3 hours max, any idea how much a laptop with least 6 to 8 hour battery life cost?
 
Both kids are using Lenovo T470 and T480 for last 5-6 years and will continue to do so, we upgraded nvme drives, added more memory.
Batteries are not that good but they are still using them.
For daughters boyfriend I got HP Elitebook end of last year which is also upgradeable.

All were bought from carbonite.

I would go with Lenovo Thinkpad 14" of some sort.
 
HP Elitebook 820/830/840 (the 2, 3 and 4 reflects the size of the screen ie 12", 13", 14"

The newer Generations ie from the 7th Gen CPUs have pretty good battery life.

As for SSD. Make sure it has an NVME drive and not a normal SSD. SSD are SLOW. I never get it why someone has a 500Mbps drive, but then has Empty NVME slots that runs normally 7x faster than the standard SSD. Its MADNESS. Especially if you have a newer gen NVME that runs 14x faster even.

Alas most Zbooks has bigger screens ie 15" and 16". They are perfect for this.

Ironic that they say the screen is too big especially due to finance. Lots of spreadsheets etc.
 
Most Macbook users work in the cloud, so they dont really need grunt.

Zbook with 64gb of Drive and NVME drives. Using the Quadro card for calculating. Anything Intel HD or Apple M1/2 just falls flat on its face for calculating however then we are speaking serious number crunching. But doubt he would need to go that advanced unless he is a Data Engineer/Data Scientist.
 
LandyMan said:
Lenovo IdeaPad 340L I think. Replaced the HDD with SSD a year ago. GREAT machine
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Its a Gaming machine? If yes, I can understand why he feelts its too big for a desk.

Those types of machines are huge, hence I asked for the model number.

It's more about the device/chassis size than the screensize.
 
Dylan_G said:
Its a Gaming machine? If yes, I can understand why he feelts its too big for a desk.

Those types of machines are huge, hence I asked for the model number.

It's more about the device/chassis size than the screensize.
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Not really gaming ... it has a numpad that makes it a bit bigger. but bigger screen by default mean bigger chassis, other wise you have a lobsided folding thing :)

I asked him to take a picture of how it is not fitting on the desk ... yet to receive it ... so I called BS :)
 
aleksandar said:
Both kids are using Lenovo T470 and T480 for last 5-6 years and will continue to do so, we upgraded nvme drives, added more memory.
Batteries are not that good but they are still using them.
For daughters boyfriend I got HP Elitebook end of last year which is also upgradeable.

All were bought from carbonite.

I would go with Lenovo Thinkpad 14" of some sort.
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for your daughters boyfriend? FFS are we under that obligation as well?
 
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