MacBook Air good and reliable for College?

[Trey A]

I wanted to hear some people’s opinons on the MacBook Air and whether or not it’s a good computer for college. Would rather not hear biased opinions against Apple. I simply want to hear from people who use the computer or have tried it and did/didn’t like it. Things like essays, multi-tasking, research and  battery life. Thanks!

[m0k]

no

[TheKDub]

I'd go for something else. What's your budget?

[Trey A]

Just now, TheKDub said:

I'd go for something else. What's your budget?

Nothing over $1000. Honestly the Apple education pricing of $899 would be the highest I’d go. I’m also considering Dell or Lenovo. 

[rtpb5642]

Just now, Trey A said:

Nothing over $1000. Honestly the Apple education pricing of $899 would be the highest I’d go. I’m also considering Dell or Lenovo. 

Thinkpad, cant go wrong. T series

[TheKDub]

1 minute ago, Trey A said:

Nothing over $1000. Honestly the Apple education pricing of $899 would be the highest I’d go. I’m also considering Dell or Lenovo. 

Lenovo has some pretty solid options. I got a Lenovo Y710-15IKB back in December and it's been great. Good battery life (5+ hours easily under light use), great display (1080p IPS), looks and feels great, not too heavy or thick either. My biggest complaint with it is the screen hinge isn't as rigid as it could be. If the screen is within around 30 degrees of closing, the weight of the screen pulls it down, and if you touch the screen (it's touchscreen, so that happens every now and then), the screen wiggles back and forth a little bit more than I'd like, and the GPU isn't the most powerful thing ever by any means, but is great for general school/office work.

[Daniel Z.]

1 minute ago, Trey A said:

Nothing over $1000. Honestly the Apple education pricing of $899 would be the highest I’d go. I’m also considering Dell or Lenovo. 

yeah thinkpads are real good. The razer blade stealth pro late 2019 tea lake with titan XJ is also pretty good

[Trey A]

i keep hearing the thinkpad come up every time I ask so I’m thinking I’ll start looking into that. T series Ultrabook? Or just T series?

[Aytex]

5 minutes ago, Trey A said:

I wanted to hear some people’s opinons on the MacBook Air and whether or not it’s a good computer for college. Would rather not hear biased opinions against Apple. I simply want to hear from people who use the computer or have tried it and did/didn’t like it. Things like essays, multi-tasking, research and  battery life. Thanks!

Im a huge windows guy but I recently got to use a Macbook with the adobe suite and it felt really smooth and good. Of course you can get much better price/performance. but if you're editing anything, doing it on the mac with a mouse is pretty nice.

[rtpb5642]

1 minute ago, Daniel Z. said:

yeah thinkpads are real good. 

Yeah my family we own 4 of them, three T series and one W, battery life is great and the built quality is so durable

[rtpb5642]

1 minute ago, Trey A said:

i keep hearing the thinkpad come up every time I ask so I’m thinking I’ll start looking into that. T series Ultrabook? Or just T series?

Just T series not ultrabook. easy to upgrade the T with an SSD later

[LienusLateTips]

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Zenbook! Zenbook.

Or a i7 model:

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[Hugs12343]

I have one because that it what my school gives me. I personally hate macOS. and they are way too expensive. THey are like $1800 AUD which is crazy considering my PC (1600 AUD) is 10 times better in cpu performance and about 800 times better graphics performance

[Trey A]

You guys have been really helpful. Thank you! I think I’ll cross out Mac. Seems like I can get just as good or even better. I’ll be looking into the thinkpad. 

[rtpb5642]

i got a use W520 two years ago and its been great, two SSDs in it now, and 20GB RAM

[Daniel Z.]

1 minute ago, rtpb5642 said:

Yeah my family we own 4 of them, three T series and one W, battery life is great and the built quality is so durable

yes, I have a core 2 duo t61 and it is a good web browsing machine after I installed win10 and an SSD. The battery holds like 20m charge cause I got it off lease but it is a good ltt/youtube PC for when I am not at my desk. My S7 kinda replaces it tho and my Lineage Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 is pretty great for youtube

[Trey A]

That’s what I keep hearing. Mac is good no doubt but pretty overpriced. 

[mrchow19910319]

I'll go against the crowd and say macbook is a really solid choice. 

 

Macbook air, maybe not so much. It has a great battery life, much better than windows laptop, but the screen is kind of crappy compares to retina display. Save a little more and get a 12 inch macbook. You won't regret it. 

 

Or if you really don't like os x, then get a thinkpad T series like other people suggested., 

 

Just be cautious because not every model of T series has top notch build quality. Only a certain number of them has great build quality. Do some research then purchase the right model. You can't go wrong with either these 2. 

 

Personally I would go for macbook. Cos I really prefer os x over windows.