The second best option in my opinion is the iPad Air (2022). This is quite a light-intensity load iPad, I would say, and a little on the smaller side so perhaps not perfect, but a good choice if your budget is tight. The cheapest iPad you can get off the Apple website is the 9th-gen 10.2-inch iPad which will cost you about $329 (about £369 or AU$658) at baseline configuration, not too shabby. So, to set you up for success you’ll be looking for a powerful iPad at the fraction of the price of an all-new MacBook. You don’t need to have a laptop at all - if you have an iPad for taking notes in lectures, you’ll be good to go in most cases. And to be honest you don’t need a laptop even close to the MacBook M2 or even the M1 to fly through university. Plenty of courses won’t see you doing much more than word processing, answering emails, and perhaps making the odd slideshow. Whew.Īs a (very recent) former student I can assure you that you’ll probably never need to buy a laptop that costs that much money, no matter what kind of programs you need. In the US the 14-inch model will run you $1,599 for the base configuration alone, and if you’re trying to deck out your 14-inch MacBook Pro with an upgraded CPU, storage, and RAM, you’re looking at a cool $6,299. Not to mention the hefty price tag attached to the new MacBooks are enough to make your heart stop (particularly if you’re in the UK). But the Pro models are ‘pro’ for a good reason! They sport a whole load of features that you’ll likely never need as a student holed up in the library or your dorm rooms, like the 8K video playback and support for up to four external displays.
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