Thanks to the Pandemic, a lot of college students have had to switch to online classes. As a result, now more than ever, college students need a good laptop for college, to do their assignments and projects, and also watch Netflix and play games to keep their spirits up. Today we will discuss about Top 5 Laptops For College.

The problem, however, is that some people think that getting a laptop for college is all about going for the cheapest option. The sad truth they quickly realize, however, is that these options are quite limited in build quality, performance, and looks.

That doesn’t mean that to get a good laptop you need to spend an arm and a leg, far from it. With careful inspection, you can find a lot of good budget laptops out there that every student will love.

To prove it, we have gathered what we think are the five best laptops for students that you can get right now.

Top 5 Laptops For College

Number 5 – Acer Swift 3 (2020)

We are kicking off our list today with the best budget option. The Acer Swift 3 is the best laptop you will find in its price range. With a price tag that hovers between 650 and 670 dollars, this laptop can comfortably sit in competition against most of the other laptops on our list that are a couple of hundred dollars more.

Most times when you buy a budget laptop, you would have to sacrifice performance, but the Acer Swift 3 eliminates this with its AMD Ryzen 7 4700U CPU with integrated Radeon Vega 8 graphics.

The laptop has a very minimalist design with a matte silver finish. This gives it a very premium feel and with this, no one would know its a $600 laptop. It weighs just 2.7 pounds and is 0.6 inches thick, so you can easily carry this laptop around without feeling burdened, once it’s time to go back to the campus.

Top 5 Laptops For College

One of the most important things student laptops need to have is battery life. You don’t want to run helter-skelter looking for an outlet to charge when you’re on campus. Thankfully, this system has a really good battery life. A team tested the battery by looping a 1080p video and the laptop ran for about 7 hours and 6 minutes. If you’re just taking notes in class, then this should easily last you the whole day.

The Acer Swift 3 comes with a 14-inch 1080p display which is expected at this price point. Honestly, on such a small screen, you really can’t tell the difference between a 1080p screen and a 4K screen, expected you pixel peep.

The keyboard on this is nice and clicky and it gives spring-like feedback. It’s perfect if you do a lot of writing and note-taking with your laptop. The trackpad is not the best out there, but it’s good enough for most people. Finally, for security and quick access to your laptop, you get a fingerprint scanner.

All these features for just $650? You really can’t get a better deal on a student laptop. If you want to get this laptop as well as all the other laptops we’ll be discussing in this video, click the links in the description down below.

Number 4 – Microsoft Surface Go 2

If your schoolwork does not involve any sort of computing that would require hardcore performance from your laptop, then the Surface Go 2 is the perfect Surface device for you.

To start with, it is a very affordable convertible device that you can use as both a laptop and a tablet. The base model of the Surface Go 2 starts at about 400 dollars, and it comes with a design that looks just like the Surface Pro 7, just in a smaller form fact, with 4 gigabytes of RAM,  64 gigabytes of storage, and an Intel Pentium Gold 4425Y dual-core processor.

Now, before you start frowning and growling at this average specs, it’s also important to point out that this device is made by Microsoft who also makes Windows. So, the software is completely optimized for the hardware, offering you better than average performance.

And if you want more computing power, for more money, you can get better configurations of the Surface Go 2 with as much as 8 gigabytes of RAM and 128 gigabytes of Storage.

Top 5 Laptops For College

One thing we need to point out, though, is that it doesn’t come with a Type Cover. This is usually how you see the Surface Go in marketing campaigns so we know it can be confusing. To get this with the tablet, you would need to spend some extra money.

However, even with that, the Surface Go 2 is still more affordable than the iPad Pro, which is its direct competition, while offering a standard computer operating system, something the iPad Pro cannot boast of.

Circling back to two of the most important features to look out for in a student laptop, weight and battery life, the Surface Go 2 completely smashes both with a weight of just 1.2 pounds, and a battery life that lasts up to 8 hours.

Number 3 – Google Pixelbook Go

It is almost impossible to compile a list of laptops for college without talking about Chromebooks.

When Google Pixelbook came out in 2017, we saw what was the best Chromebook to hit the market at the time, and even now, it remains one of the best. Unfortunately, all the premium features in design and performance came at an equally premium price.

Thankfully, in 2019, Google released the Pixelbook Go which is a cut-down budget version of the original Pixelbook.

The Pixelbook Go is powered by an Intel Core m3-i7 CPU with Intel UHD Graphics 615. You also get either 8 or 16 gigabytes of RAM, and storage options ranging from 64 to 256 gigabytes.

As you would expect with any budget version of a product, there will have to be a few features to compromise on. This, however, does not mean that this device does not wipe out the competition with its features.

The laptop weighs just 2.3 pounds and has a battery life of over 11 hours. Add that to its truly premium design, excellent keyboard and mouse, and one of the best speakers in a laptop, and you can see why this laptop is a bargain at $650.

Number 2 – MacBook Air 2020

We’re now getting into the more powerful and, of course, pricier options. Once you see Mac in the title you already expect all the premium stuff, and this one does not fall short of that expectation.

This is the best, and most affordable Macbook option for students who are already in the Apple Ecosystem and want to stay in it.

The MacBook Air is powered by a 10th Gen Intel CPU that’s either i3, i5, or i7, depending on your selection, with an Intel Iris Plus GPU. You can also pick between 8 and 16 gigabytes of RAM, and storage options range from 256 gigabytes to 2 terabytes.

With a battery that lasts about 11 hours and a weight of just 2.8 pounds, this laptop is one of the best laptops for students out there, period. It starts out at $1000, which is actually not bad for a Macbook.

Number 1 – Dell XPS 13

This is the best premium laptop for any college student. It packs all the powerful performance features in a very sleek design at a pretty solid price too.

The Dell XPS 13 is powered by a 10th Generation Intel Core i3, i5, or i7 CPU. With integrated Intel graphics and an Intel Iris Plus GPU, this laptop is all set for both work and playtime.

RAM configurations include 8 or 16 gigabytes, while storage ranges from 256 gigabytes to 2 terabytes, very similar to what the Macbook Air offers.

Where the XPS 13 slightly edges the Macbook Air is in battery life. You get around 12 hours of battery life with this device compared to the 11 hours on the Macbook Air, and they both weigh the same thing at 2.8 pounds.

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