Good laptop for high school students?

[SkyeP]

Hi, I'm shopping around for a decent school laptop, preferably one that can handle light photoshop use for around $600-700 ($500 USD)  can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks.

[Himommies]

Used macbook

Inspiron 15 5000

[Froody129]

Used Ideapads etc with quad core i7s are best bang for the buck but they'll be a bit heavier and of course you have to deal with finding used deals

[SkyeP]

Okay, sounds good I'll see what I can find.

[flibberdipper]

12 minutes ago, Himommies said:

Used macbook

Unless the OP wants to spend 300-400 bucks on one that isn't total trash, this is a terrible idea. Used second-gen (maybe third if you're lucky) i5/i7 Latitude's and ThinkPads are generally the best deals, though I was able to snag my E4300 a few years ago for about 80 bucks, and even though the C2D showed it's weakness sometimes, the battery life was nuts, especially when I locked it down to 800MHz (generally enough for what I had to do).

[Himommies]

13 minutes ago, Froody129 said:

Used Ideapads etc with quad core i7s are best bang for the buck but they'll be a bit heavier and of course you have to deal with finding used deals

I find that the battery life on those suck amd at school that might be a issue

[Himommies]

2 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Unless the OP wants to spend 300-400 bucks on one that isn't total trash,

wat

you can get a 2011 13 inch mac book pro for 500 easy.I found one that even has CS6

and you can get a 2016 macbook air too 

[Pavilion]

used Thinkpad's most of them are great with a great build quality.

[flibberdipper]

3 hours ago, Himommies said:

wat

you can get a 2011 13 inch mac book pro for 500 easy.I found one that even has CS6

and you can get a 2016 macbook air too 

500 bucks for 2011 laptop hardware is not a good deal, and the MBA is a joke (especially dat screen oof). Hell my E4310 cost me $100 bucks after shipping, and it has a better screen, 4GB of RAM (though another 20 bucks would have gotten me 8GB), and a marginally faster CPU (580M compared to the 2415M). Only thing I was willing to let slide was the 80GB hard drive, but that was because I already had an SSD. Again, another splash of money and you had a 250GB, a lot of which were 7200RPM.

[genexis_x]

4 hours ago, Braedon said:

Hi, I'm shopping around for a decent school laptop, preferably one that can handle light photoshop use for around $600-700 ($500 USD)  can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks.

Wait for 8th gen ULV laptops?

Acer Swift 3