Best Mac laptop

[Brettyboo]

Just asking your opinion on the best Mac laptop for a student. 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

5 minutes ago, Brettyboo said:

Just asking your opinion on the best Mac laptop for a student. 

The last generation MacBook Pro retina if you're doing programming. Air for practically anything else. 

[Airdragonz]

Depends on your needs. If you're doing web based things, get a regular MacBook. If you are doing anything else more cpu heavy, go with a MacBook pro

[AT0MAC]

as always, it kind of also depends of how much you want to spend

[Brettyboo]

16 minutes ago, AT0MAC said:

as always, it kind of also depends of how much you want to spend

Price wouldn't matter

[Techicolors]

depends on what you're planning on using it for

[Brettyboo]

Just now, Technicolors said:

depends on what you're planning on using it for

General school use

[kirashi]

1 hour ago, Brettyboo said:

Price wouldn't matter

Then buy the highest configured MacBook Pro you can afford, since you can't upgrade later. Most mobile devices, including non-Apple laptops, are designed to be thrown away when they become "outdated" anyway, so I'd buy a MacBook "Pro" with at least 16GB RAM and a 512GB NVMe drive at the minimum for school or business use.

 

Although I'd strongly encourage you to buy a real MacBook Pro, aka Dell's XPS 15 9560, so you can actually use it for professional purposes later without carrying around a bag of dongles. That being said, if you have no use for an SD card slot or HDMI output, and you need or prefer using MacOS, then just go for the MacBook and enjoy it.

[Brettyboo]

1 hour ago, kirashi said:

Then buy the highest configured MacBook Pro you can afford, since you can't upgrade later. Most mobile devices, including non-Apple laptops, are designed to be thrown away when they become "outdated" anyway, so I'd buy a MacBook "Pro" with at least 16GB RAM and a 512GB NVMe drive at the minimum for school or business use.

 

Although I'd strongly encourage you to buy a real MacBook Pro, aka Dell's XPS 15 9560, so you can actually use it for professional purposes later without carrying around a bag of dongles. That being said, if you have no use for an SD card slot or HDMI output, and you need or prefer using MacOS, then just go for the MacBook and enjoy it.

I've never used MacOS, I just thought that it may be easy to learn. I definitely wouldn't want the dongles with it. But I'm a fairly basic user so I don't need anything of the highest rank, but I'm looking for something that I won't have to worry about upgrading for a while.

[AT0MAC]

9 hours ago, Brettyboo said:

I've never used MacOS, I just thought that it may be easy to learn. I definitely wouldn't want the dongles with it. But I'm a fairly basic user so I don't need anything of the highest rank, but I'm looking for something that I won't have to worry about upgrading for a while.

i guess you are used to windows then?

to me that would make way more sense as you usually get better specs for the same amount of money and also can avoid the dongle nightmare on most windows laptops.

as you might know there is no such thing as future proofing tech, so get the best laptop within your budget and call it a day.

if you are a student there might even be deals to take because of that, like dell or microsoft or other bigger retailers sometimes have specific student discounts, take advantage of that

 

EDIT: Like look at this one here, looks like a pretty good deal to me