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Best laptop for high school kid?

Knight said:
I find it completely mind boggling that it is socially acceptable to provide a 9th grader with a laptop in their room. I wouldn't even let a 9th grader have a TV in their room. That level of privacy with technology just isn't necessary at that point in their lives.
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I think this is a little extreme. 9th grade is high school - there's a decent chance that you're already drinking, smoking pot or having sex and you're a few months away from being able to drive. And you don't think they can even handle a TV in their room?
 
cookoutdeac said:
Because taking notes by hand is sometimes way better than having to limit yourself to just text input (ever try taking notes for a math/engineering course on a normal laptop?)? OneNote + a digitizer pen means you never have to buy notebooks again, all your notes get backed up to the cloud/can easily be shared, and you get to draw graphs/charts/illustrations as necessary when in a class. It's the future, man.
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Fair enough, but personally I would hate to study notes on a computer screen.
 
MysteryMen said:
I think this is a little extreme. 9th grade is high school - there's a decent chance that you're already drinking, smoking pot or having sex and you're a few months away from being able to drive. And you don't think they can even handle a TV in their room?
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Exactly. I had a job and bought a car when I was in 9th grade. It sounds like you're talking about 6th graders. Mind-boggling to have laptop at that age? Or a TV? Yikes. When does it go from mind-boggling to reasonable? College?
 
Thanks for all the advice and comments, especially the Chrome comments - hadn't thought of that. After researching tech on the school website, it looks like all the freshmen are assigned a Chrome laptop, so that seems like more reason to avoid the MacBrook Pro with Retina that she won't be getting.
 
Now your daughter is going to hate the ogboardz
 
BKF's hand written suggestion is still in the mail, he postmarked it yesterday and it should hopefully be arriving before the weekend.
 
ThinkingWithMyDeac said:
BKF's hand written suggestion is still in the mail, he postmarked it yesterday and it should hopefully be arriving before the weekend.
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Late to this conversation, but my SP3 is amazing. I'd have killed to have had it in college. The keyboard is definitely not as bad as everyone is making it out to be.
 
TWDeac said:
Late to this conversation, but my SP3 is amazing. I'd have killed to have had it in college. The keyboard is definitely not as bad as everyone is making it out to be.
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It's usable, but not good... As long as you don't the the soft one.
 
I bought a Lenovo for ~$300 three years back and it's still doing great.
 
WFcatamount22 said:
The keyboard on my Lenovo X1 Carbon is the worst keyboard I have ever used. It's new and Lenovo completely f'd it up compared to their older models.
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Yea, I have heard those KBs aren't very good - I think it is because of the efforts to keep that machine thin and light. ThinkPads are generally famous for their excellent keyboards but it is difficult to keep the same feel and travel in the newer, super-thin machines.

BTW, Lenovo a couple of models called LaVie that are easily the lightest machines I have ever seen. When you pick it up you don't think it is a real machine. I don't know much else about them and know the keyboards are kind of funky (these were originally Japan-only models) but the lightness is striking.
 
Those stinkpads had many pragmatic functions.

Paperweight, doorstop, porn streamer etc.
 
cookoutdeac said:
Thanks for proving you're not actually reading the content of my posts.. I said BETTER than 1080p.
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Yeah, that's my bad. For some reason I was thinking in terms of 1080+ rather than better than 1080.
 
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