Best Laptop for Students: 2024 Edition

The ULTIMATE Guide to Picking a Laptop for School

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00:00 Intro
00:42 Size of Laptop
01:39 Type of Laptop to Buy
01:44 Apple Laptops
02:32 Intel or AMD Laptops
03:40 Qualcomm Snapdragon CoPilot+ Laptops
04:41 Chromebooks & Tablets
04:50 Important - Verify YOUR Software Needs
05:19 Configuration to Buy - Memory & Storage
05:49 Warranty & Servicability
06:19 How to Save Money
06:30 Recommended Laptops
07:13 MacBook Air
08:23 Zenbook 14
09:43 Spectre 14
10:58 Framework 13
12:11 Surface Laptop 7
13:21 Students Who Want Performance
13:27 MacBook Pro 14
15:00 Gamers
15:08 Legion Slim 5 14
14:55 Omen Transcend 14
16:13 Zephyrus G14
17:01 Yoga Pro 9i 16
17:51 Conclusion

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[kung_flu]

“Yes mom I need an rog strix for college work”

[Sokenro]

If you go into engineering, absolutely DO NOT buy an Apple laptop. Many engineering applications do not run on them, the best example of which is solidworks.

[LouisDuran]

I bought the Zenbook 14 for my son when he went off to college in Australia. He likes it. I got a very good deal from BestBuy @$749. The price fluctuates often so wait for a sale. It comes with the Core Ultra 7 155H, 16 GB RAM and 1 TB SSD. The laptop is quite fast and my son can play some of his favorite games on it. It also runs Jupyter Notebooks well. Battery life was pretty good. We left it on playing the YouTube favorite Costa Rica in 4K. After an hour, the battery was only down 9%. So I have confidence this could last all day long if starting a 100% battery.

So far he's pretty happy with it.

[saturnotaku]

My nephew is starting university this fall. He's not a PC gamer and isn't going to study anything that requires a lot of computing resources. However, based on what he tried, he wanted a 16-inch laptop. We chose a 2023 LG Gram 16 with an i7-1360p CPU, 16 GB of RAM, 1 TB of storage, and a 1600p touchscreen that was on clearance for $750 from Costco so it fit perfectly into his $800 maximum budget.

[LordTrayus]

If you're in Finance, stay away from a Mac. Finance classes often teach Excel based on PC shortcuts. You'd like to think it's just a simple swap of the Ctrl key for the Cmd Key but it's not. You WILL be lost.

[charisalfan]

Me from less developed country where student usually can only afford 300 to 400 USD for laptop with Core i3 or Ryzen 3 even Celeron watching recommended laptop for developed country student laptop that cost 3-4 times our laptop, interesting...

[RonxYagami]

These reviews are insanely valuable and I appreciate the side by side testing. Thank you 🙏🏾

[dylank]

As always solid content. Fav review channel!

[devonward]

How are you getting this benchmark that Intel is beating amd when it comes to gaming every benchmark I see has 780m significantly out performing the Intel arc, does timespy hugely favor Intel? How about a different you benchmark?

[TheAaronJP]

I bought a refurbished thinkpad t480 and a well used ipad 9th gen with apple pencil for reading. Couldnt be happier for uni work. Cost less than £350

[PlatinAviation]

I’m still using my 2019 MB Air with 8GB of RAM, and its performance seems to be decreasing everyday lol. I’m researching laptops for almost 6 months now though I haven‘t found anything perfect yet - I feel it’s best for me to wait as there’s so much going on in the laptop world right now, and new processors around the corner! Also, I’ll go and take the new quiz on the website - really appreciate the effort you guys are putting in!

[leonwilliamson]

Hi Josh, when can we expect the Zenbook S16 reviews to come out, quite excited for that model and curious where it would fit in this video!

[brandonchan]

9:07 correct me if I'm wrong but the 780m actually does out perform arc graphics in real world games, while losing in synthetics like time spy. my theory for this is that despite arc being out as long as it has been, the drivers are still nowhere as mature as the AMD drivers for the 780m and thus does not deliver as much gaming performance for the same wattage. (The MSI claw with arc graphics for example are considerably less efficient and less performant at games compared to the Z1 extreme handhelds.)

[TheCloudX]

Great as always! Curious which hub you are using with the Zephyrus G14 at 16:49?

[kristhianznr]

Nice vid!!! Can you try to get the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 5 (Intel and AMD) and review them?

[anventia]

Great video, you make very good points!

Earlier this year I picked up the G16 2024 (Core Ultra 9, 32GB, 4070). I went with a 16-inch model instead of a 14-inch model because due to having to live at two separate places (parents), I don't want to have 2 monitor+keyboard setups. It has been working very well for me as an engineering student!

[thomasmiller]

Many times the college will specify Windows.

[TransparentlyDuplicitous]

I picked up the HP Pavilion 14 from Microcenter for $440 after tax. I don't think there's a better deal. OLED and AMD 7840U alone are easily worth the price, and it still has 1TB of storage and 16GB of RAM. Before the fall semester starts, students really should look out for particularly good sales.

[philippjacoby]

what do you say to the lenovo yoga pro 7 gen 9 with ryzen 7 8845HS? worth getting? With discount i d be paying 900...

[JesseProwisor]

Josh and team - first, awesome review and advice - thank you! I keep wondering why the G16 4080 isn't highlighted more - is it because it is out of the price range for an average student machine? The yoga is amazing, but is lacking the battery. The G16 lasts 9-10 hours, and offers better graphics. Any feedback on the G16 4080? -- I believe you recommended it over the G16 4070, but haven't heard more on it. Thanks again for any feedback - and love the content!