Laptop For High School Junior (1 Viewer)

[James Daulton]

Thoughts on a good laptop for my daughter? It needs to run microsoft office for school, but other than that she really doesn't use it a ton other than internet surfing and downloading pics from her phone. I'd like it to last into the beginning of college at least too. I was thinking of a surface pro, thoughts?

 

[Abraham]

That's a nice machine for sure.

 

[brun]

You may want to look at some of the colleges that she's likely to attend. They sometimes have minimum requirements or capabilities for student computers.

 

[Fantasy_Freak]

Interested in the feedback, my daughter begins high school next year, looking to get her own laptop for her to do homework, probably get a new laptop when she gets to college. I am computer illiterate, I do not want to run to Best Buy and get one of their laptops that includes numerous extras.

 

[James Daulton]

Looking at the spec, the surface 3 is $200 less than the surface pro 3. And the performance difference between the two don't mean a whole lot for my high school kid. A surface 3, keyboard, and pen total $600 at Amazon.

 

[Thorpe]

Just about any new laptop you get will be more than good enough, and it should last 4 or 5 years and not 2 years. The only thing that would tax a laptop is gaming...

I would take her to Best Buy and have her try out a few, to see what keyboard/trackpad/screen size works best for her.

Stay away from a Windows 8 laptop, but either Windows 7 or 10 will work. Nobody liked Windows 8.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

My daughter picked a Lenovo Yoga 2 over a Surface Pro.