Buying a new laptop can be stressful and even more stressful when you are buying it first time. When buying a new laptop for students, its important to choose specifications that meet your budget and fulfill student’s educational needs. Consider that this laptop, fulfills requirements of today and atleast 4-5 years in future as well so that you don’t waste money on buying new laptop again and again. In this post, we will help you how to choose the best laptop for students.
All students have different budgets, some prefer to buy the top-notch technology without worrying about the cost but on the other hand some may have a very tight-budget to buy the best laptop for students.
As remote online learning is becoming more common, its important that a new laptop has all the features which enhance remote learning. Built-in webcam and speakers are common in all basic laptops, check connectivity for headset mic. Check processing power to handle web confrencing applications as these are needed to participate in online lectures.
Whether you are in library or riding the bus to and from your home and school, a right laptop can be the key factor in your online education success.
The vast majority of students use laptops for computing needs only. Rare students who won’t work ever on laptop outside the dormitory room might prefer to buy a desktop PC or high-performance workstation
How to Find the Best, Affordable Laptop for Students
Here are some key factors and suggestions to save on student laptop.
- Processors with multiple cores and clock speeds over 3.5Ghz are new top-of-the-line. But majority of students can do fine with any processor over 2.0 Ghz.
- Hard drive size is less important nowadays because of cloud storage and audio/video streaming. Don’t worry if the system has low internal storage.
- Unless the laptop will be used for graphics design or CAD design, a High definition (HD) display is enough for all tasks.
- Normally 4GB-8GB memory is the basic these days and all programs can run seamlessly. Don’t spend too much initially unless you really need a larger memory.
Best laptop for primary school students
For younger students (between class 1-5) a touchscreen gadget is easier to use than a keyboard and touchpad. Detachable 2-in-1 Laptops are the perfect for these students.
Check out:
- Lenovo IdeaPad D330: a 10.1″ Detachable 2-in-1 touchscreen Laptop
- HP Chromebook 11a: Thin and Light 11.6 inch HD Touchscreen Laptop
- ASUS BR1100 Notebook 12: 11.6-inch HD, Touch Screen laptop
- Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 11e: 11.6 inch HD 2-in-1 TouchScreen Laptop
Best laptop for junior school students
The students of junior schools in classes 6th-8th need laptops mainly for web-based school work and internet surfing to take the reference for their home assignments. All basic laptops can fulfill this requirement without affecting your pocket much.
We recommend, these students should buy 14-inch laptops which can be used in home and in schools whenever need arises because 14-inch laptops are easy to carry and light-weight.
Here is a list of all high rated laptops for students within economic range (20,000 – 30,000)
Check out:
- HP 245 G8 14 inch Laptop: AMD Ryzen 3 3250U/8 GB DDR4 RAM/512 GB SSD/14-inch/DOS
- ASUS Eeebook 14 Thin and Light Laptop: 4GB RAM/256GB SSD/14-inch/Windows 11/White/1.3 kg),
- Lenovo V14-IGL 14 inch laptop: Intel Celeron N4020/4 GB memory/ 256GB SSD/ 14″ HD display/Windows 11/MS-Office with Lifetime Validity/ 1 Year Onsite Warranty
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