College Laptop with good display

[AndyGamming]

Hi, as I mentioned in the title, I'm looking for a laptop for college. I'm not using it for gaming, just office and watching movies.

The main atuu for this laptop should be the screen, to have the best experience while watching movies.

I was looking at a MacBook Air, but I cant really decide.

The bugdet is around 1000-1200 euros.

[kelvinhall05]

Don't get a Macbook (or any Mac for that regard) unless you NEED MacOS and aren't interested in doing a hackintosh.

 

Do you have a screen size preference? And what do you mean by "good display"?

[AndyGamming]

1 minute ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Don't get a Macbook (or any Mac for that regard) unless you NEED MacOS and aren't interested in doing a hackintosh.

 

Do you have a screen size preference? And what do you mean by "good display"?

Hi, by saying good display I mean a bright display, with good colors and view angles.

About screen size, I'd say around 14 inch.

[kelvinhall05]

Just now, AndyGamming said:

Hi, by saying good display I mean a bright display, with good colors and view angles.

About screen size, I'd say around 14 inch.

I'd look into a used X1 Carbon or T-series if you want more IO.

[Roswell]

4 hours ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Don't get a Macbook (or any Mac for that regard) unless you NEED MacOS and aren't interested in doing a hackintosh.

 

Do you have a screen size preference? And what do you mean by "good display"?

If they say they want the best display then there’s no reason to exclude MacBooks since... well, they have some of the most accurate panels on the market. They also have hands down the best speakers which would be a plus for OP’s media consumption.

[Lord Vile]

9 hours ago, AndyGamming said:

Hi, as I mentioned in the title, I'm looking for a laptop for college. I'm not using it for gaming, just office and watching movies.

The main atuu for this laptop should be the screen, to have the best experience while watching movies.

I was looking at a MacBook Air, but I cant really decide.

The bugdet is around 1000-1200 euros.

Can you get a student discount? If so look at the base 13" Pro. You get a free office suite with it, a 16:10 aspect ratio screen which is great for productivity, the best trackpad in the game by miles and MacOS is a much better place to exist than Windows

[Darkseth]

11 hours ago, kelvinhall05 said:

I'd look into a used X1 Carbon or T-series if you want more IO.

Well, he said he want's to watch movies too.

 

The macbook Air will give a MUCH better experience there than a Thinkpad T-series. I had both here, speaker can't even compare. Macbook Air wins here by ALOT
And the Display was better too on the Macbook.

Let alone the navigation because of the much better Touchpad and gestures.

 

So from me: Macbook > Any Thinkpad for Multimedia.

In Fact, i would even say: do NOT get any Thinkpad model, because the speakers are trash.

 

But i wouldn't get a Macbook Air, when the Apple Silicon Macbook Pro 13" will probably come with very minimal price difference, and ALOT more performance.

[AndyGamming]

1 hour ago, Darkseth said:

Well, he said he want's to watch movies too.

 

The macbook Air will give a MUCH better experience there than a Thinkpad T-series. I had both here, speaker can't even compare. Macbook Air wins here by ALOT
And the Display was better too on the Macbook.

Let alone the navigation because of the much better Touchpad and gestures.

 

So from me: Macbook > Any Thinkpad for Multimedia.

In Fact, i would even say: do NOT get any Thinkpad model, because the speakers are trash.

 

But i wouldn't get a Macbook Air, when the Apple Silicon Macbook Pro 13" will probably come with very minimal price difference, and ALOT more performance.

So you're suggesting to waitfor the next mac gen?

[Lord Vile]

1 hour ago, Darkseth said:

Well, he said he want's to watch movies too.

 

The macbook Air will give a MUCH better experience there than a Thinkpad T-series. I had both here, speaker can't even compare. Macbook Air wins here by ALOT
And the Display was better too on the Macbook.

Let alone the navigation because of the much better Touchpad and gestures.

 

So from me: Macbook > Any Thinkpad for Multimedia.

In Fact, i would even say: do NOT get any Thinkpad model, because the speakers are trash.

 

But i wouldn't get a Macbook Air, when the Apple Silicon Macbook Pro 13" will probably come with very minimal price difference, and ALOT more performance.

Depends how they turn out though and you'd be essentially a beta tester. Thought the price was leaked a while ago at $800~