Get her an HP, Dell or Lenovo windows laptop and it will take her through college. I have been in the PC business for over 20 years and this is what I would do for my kids.
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Originally posted by thegrouse View PostI have both. The Chromebook is very slow, the kids use it for school. If I lost my Mac today I would have another one before the day is out. It is a fantastic machine.
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Beyond just the device itself, consider the ecosystem. Does your daughter have an iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad? What got me to leave Windows many years ago was the Apple ecosystem. Now, you couldn't pay me to use a Windows device. My three oldest kids all have my hand me down MBP's 2011, 2013 and 2015 models and they are still trucking along. I bought a new MBP in 2019 and no issues. I've got a 2013 Mac Pro and it still runs great.
Buy once, cry once.
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I have a Lenovo laptop for work and have had a Surface Pro 4 for a number of years and it has served me well. I got the Surface Pro mainly because it was so light to carry around when I was traveling a lot. I also have an Android phone.
That being said, I watch my wife, who is an educator an Apple user and she has an Apple desktop here at the house, a MacBook Pro for her masters program she is currently in and a MacBook at school. She uses an iPhone and Apple watch. I say that only to get across that everything she has is connected and syncs seamlessly.
I have never been in the Apple camp myself but if I was starting fresh, Apple would be the way I would go. Especially a college student because I still think Apple is geared more towards the education vertical with all the software. Also, you can run the MS Windows applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc. on them just fine. I know my wife does.
As many said above, buy once, cry once with Apple and their ecosystem.
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