Are MacBooks a good choice for students?

Question

Are MacBooks an option that students should contemplate for their school requirements?

Answer 1

Apple’s MacBooks make an exceptional option for students owing to the quality construction, good battery life, quiet fans, and high performance. Unfortunately, they often come at a high cost, especially with the costs of upgrades, and certain software, mainly AAA games and the use of Linux, are not too well supported.

Comments

Do not buy a Mac if you are studying finance or something that will frequently use Excel/ MS Office. It has limited functionality and all of your courses will follow windows shortcuts and assume windows features.

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I will be studying computer science however I am really leaning towards the new surface laptops

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A MacBook Pro with an M2 Pro and 16 GB RAM and 1 TB storage is the best laptop choice for students. You probably have to install Parallels VM with Windows so you can run Windows-only software. Software such as Solidworks will run in the VM. Not sure about games; if gaming is important, then maybe not Apple. Otherwise, the weight, size, battery life, and ecosystem are worth the cost.

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FWIW, If you want linux, macs arent an awful options - fedora Asahi is pretty complete, even has openGL and planed vulkan support, and supports most of the hardware like camera and trackpad.

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i love my macbook air m2 with 16gbs of ram and 512 gbs of storage i basically falls into the harvey's team and im trying to get into trinity team as well personally i was contemplating wether to buy a zenbook 14 or this and after using some of my fri's windows i cannot vibe with it so going with luxury feel it is! also my last laptop is also a mac and yeah if you're already in the apple ecosystem, just get the m2 it'll be worth it trust me.