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If you haven’t actually bought your college-going kit a laptop yet, he is probably pestering you for one right about now.

How do you pick the best laptop for students going to college, actually?

Does he really need a full-blown laptop that costs $1200?

Won’t a $400 netbook do just as well if they just want to take notes in class or something?

Well, your kid probably so badly wants an iPad at this point that he’ll try to convince you that it could be his main computer for college.

Don’t buy that line of argument though. Most of what your kid will do in college, will involve typing. And doing that on an iPad can be a pain – even with a Bluetooth keyboard.

So basically, the best laptop for students is a laptop (surprise!). How powerful a computer is your kid going to need?

Well, he is going to need something for his homework – which, unless he is studying animation or computer music composition, is going to be fairly routine.

An Intel Corei3 processor and a 15-inch screen could do.

If your kid is a slightly built girl though, that kind of computer might be all too heavy to lug around between classroom, dormitory, library and home. A 13-inch laptop should be completely serviceable and should be large enough too.

You can’t just buy a computer for what it does though. Even if it’s technically exactly what it needs to be. College is as much about the social experience of being with your friends and getting along as actually getting work done. Basically, you want to get a machine that’s good-looking, too.

If you really like the idea of an ultrabook – which would be something like the MacBook Air – that might be workable, except that it’s really expensive without really bringing anything to the table other than lightness of weight.

Which actually brings us to an important point. College kids are not known for how careful they are with their possessions.

There’s certainly going to be a fair amount of being dropped, and being slid across floors, and being sat on involved (for the laptop, and not the kid).

While the idea of getting a really lightweight computer might appeal, and ultrabook like the MacBook Air is not really going to be suitable.

Because these computers are by definition, really, really thin and light. They aren’t going to take that kind of abuse. This isn’t the best laptop for students.

You could go with a standard MacBook or MacBook Pro depending on your budget. That’ll cost you about $1200 or so.

On the Windows side of the aisle, ta Core2 Duo or Core i3 should be perfectly adequate. A Core i5 and a 1TB hard drive wouldn’t be a bad idea, either. A machine like this shouldn’t cost more than $600 or so.

Do see if you can get an educational discount. You can usually get $100 off when you’re buying a laptop for a student.

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People who travel on business certainly do need and like their laptops. Manufacturers have always tried their best to provide their users with the best lightweight laptop experience possible; while they have succeeded to a remarkable degree, the latest full-blown laptops out there can still be bulky and heavy to carry around.

Now that tablet computers like the iPad are here and everyone has one, business travelers who are sick of carrying 6-pound laptop bags all around the world look at this new product and wonder if it could possibly replace the hated laptop bag on their shoulder.

Is the iPad the best lightweight laptop ever? It has the potential. Once you load it up suitably with the right apps.

The first thing you need to turn your iPad into a lightweight laptop for business use is a small portable Bluetooth keyboard. This should let you type into every office productivity application you need.

With that out of the way, let’s start with two of the most important business apps you need to make your iPad usable in a business laptop context – Numbers and Pages. Read the rest of this entry →

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A lot of people know of the Apple iPad, even if they have not seen or used one of them personally. For a long time it was a buzz word, and everyone wanted one. They didn’t come cheap however and this meant that a lot of people were left wanting.

That was until the copy cat market began to refine their products from the rough and ready tablet computers that were selling on price tag alone. Over the past six months in particular, the tablet computer has become more powerful and easy to use.

The most common operating system on the cheaper tablets is Android. Unfortunately this lightweight operating system was aimed at the smartphone market and not the tablet market, and only fully supported devices up to seven inches in screen size. Though larger devices still work, applications were not made available for the larger screens.

This will change soon, with Android supporting the ten inch variety fully. Once this happens, the availability of applications on the ten inch aPad will level the playing field a little more between the aPad and the iPad.

There are a lot of things that the aPad offers that the iPad does not. The first and foremost is an affordable price tag. Like comparing a PC to a Mac, the aPad is significantly cheaper than the iPad, and what’s more there are a great deal more options, including in the hardware built into the devices. Read the rest of this entry →

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