Best College Laptops

My Choices For The 2010 Best College Laptops

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For most students, college is a time to break away from the nest, meet new and different people and of course, see how you function without your parents, even though you’ll probably end up mssing them a lot. But a very known and popular way to cure homesickness, as well as make any work done for your classes a lot easier, is to have a laptop by your side. It’s very hard to go somewhere nowadays without seeing someone on their laptop. Whether it be at a local bookstore, your favorite coffee shop, or even a fast food chain restaurant, it’s nearly impossible to function without a laptop.

However when entering college, you need to research for the best laptop computer for college students. This will save hours of stress, making your college life a lot easier. When searching for the perfect laptop, you will need to look for a few features that are basically mandatory in the college world.

First and foremost, it must be light, small and easy to carry. This will make it easier to walk around campus, whether it be from class to class, or to meet up with friends to work on a research paper. Many models meet these features, models ranging from Sony, HP and Lenovo.

A very popular and good choice, are Vaio laptops, which come from the brand Sony. Not only thin and light, most systems come with DVD and/or Blu-Ray compatibility, ability to burn DVDs and CDs, as well as buy very powerful CPUs, 2GB RAM, and large hard drives, which allows you to store more information.

Another popular and important feature to look for, especially being a college student, is of course budget. For most students it’s easy to become short on money, and finding a good budget laptop will prove to be a good buy. To name just a few great models, Dell, Toshiba and HP. Two great models I would personally recommend would be from Toshiba and Dell.

Most Toshiba laptops are a great budget and you can also buy a dual core CPU, which works well with most applications needed for college and whatever needed for personal time. Dell Studio laptops are one of the best laptops, which is the laptop I personally use. The price may be a little high for some students, but is completely worth it. Not only can you design your own laptop, or buy other designs nearly everywhere online, it is a very light laptop and has a very good battery life. Although not very easy to move around, it is still completely worth every penny. Dell laptops are also good for their screen size, excellent graphics, and has an amazing processor, good memory and also includes an optical drive and webcam.

Another portable, small and light laptop would be the Lenovo ThinkPad. Capable of not only excellent computing performance, it also comes in a very small, sleek, compact package. The ThinkPad is the best Lenovo laptop for college and is a great choice for any student, though a bit pricey, it’s still affordable and worth the cost. On top of that, it has been called one of the best preforming laptops available and around. Most weigh no more than 3 pounds, which makes it very easy to carry around. Though most are targeted for school use only, it comes with an amazing hard drive, processor and CPU.

However there is one laptop that is known as the best college laptop, the Apple MacBook. This laptop has been called the perfect embodiment notebook for not only college students, but students in high school as well. Most customers to buy the MacBook are, ironically, college students and once reading it’s features, it comes to no surprise. With a big inch display, these laptops are as well light and portable. Though a bit expensive, it’s a purchase you wouldn’t regret in the future. With a great processor, amazing graphics, and 160 GB hard drive, it is seen with more college students than any other laptop. Though only 5 laptops are profiled here, there are plenty more out there and available that could work quite well for a college education. Other models not featured here that are also amazing are HP Pavilion, Gateway and Asus.

Also take into consideration what your needs and wants are before purchasing anything. Make sure whatever laptop you buy, can not only make your college work easier, but fits your style and is easy to carry any and everywhere with you.

This post continues our Best College Laptops 2010 series.

Review: Sony Vaio Laptops

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** This is a guest post by Charlie Bensone, one of our new readers **

I’ve been using Sony Vaio laptops for a while now. The general view for netbooks when it comes to hardware hasn’t really changed too much. Most people still use an Atom processor, 1-2Gb Ram memory and a hard drive. The software on the other hand, has in fact changed. In most cases, Windows XP is finally well forgotten. Windows Vista, with its ups and down, had a tremendous hype that was transmitted into most computers, and now the most predominant OS in Vaio laptops, is Windows 7.

The past two weeks, I have been able to use the new Sony Vaio P Laptop Series quite a lot because my roommate owns one. So how good will this new model series fit with the rest of the competition? With a first look at this Vaio, maybe we might not notice much change. As a matter of fact, its weight, screen size, and general aspect, is pretty much the same, with the exception its colors, of course. If we make a quick hardware analysis, we will find that even the specs are basically the same as the Vaio model from last year. The same Atom processor, 2Gb of Ram, an 8” screen, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and a Memory stick PRO and SD reader.

But once we start to actually use the laptop, we will find some major improvements from Sony that will make it one of the best college laptops I’ve seen. The improvements made to this Sony Laptop model were consequence of the large amount of criticism the first model received. One of the primary reasons people weren´t satisfied was that fact that in spite of having an 8” screen, it had a 1600×768 pixel resolution. Even though this would images and videos look pretty spectacular (It´s a LED screen) it made text look almost impossible to read in certain websites. Sony has now implemented a very useful button that lets us jump from 1600×768 to 1280×600. The joystick on the other hand was never really user friendly, now it´s much more comfortable to handle. Sony has also added a trackpad with buttons that gives us a different option for a much better use of our Laptop.

The new Sony Vaio Laptop P Series not only looks good, but is also extremely light, allowing us to use it while lying on the couch and using its tactile control to move around. I would even dare to say that this new function works better than if it was a touch screen. This is because even though Windows 7 has this “touch” capability, the operating system is not built for it. The options menu, for example, would be impossible to select with a touch screen. The trackpad on the other hand, becomes very easy to use the Sony Laptop.

Once again we see how every year; Sony delivers an even higher quality laptop to the market. The new Sony Laptop P Series carries a better battery, a well implemented trackpad, and a screen with an alternate resolution capacity, all this, while still retaining the great advantages from last year’s model. This new Sony Laptop has become one of best models out there when it comes to its characteristics, functions and lightness.