Seven Best Back-to-School Laptops

Go back about twenty years and imagine someone bringing a computer to school; we are sure at best you would have imagined something luggable. Now, come a little forward, say about a decade ago, where students got a tradeoff, and now they have a more potent machine, that can easily be taken to classes or to the dorm room. But the time in which we are living is a lot different than the time we’ve talked about above, and now finding a powerful notebook for well under $1,000 is a lot easy and the notebook that you’ll get will also be a lot more compact and portable than what the computers use to be a little while earlier.

If you are looking for a decent back-to-school laptop for you and are finding it a tad difficult, then let us help you. Here we’ve listed seven of the best back-to-school laptops available in market, along with their price, weight, thickness and a brief description of the laptops.

1.) MacBook:

Price: $849 and up
Thickness: 1.08 inches
Weight: 5 pounds

This entry-level notebook from Apple is a lot costly than the cheapest laptops from other companies, but at the same time this Apple’s notebook is a much more capable than others as well. This machine is capable of handling a lot more modern tasks than you can even imagine, starting from editing the multimedia clips to several other modern tasks, this machine is capable of handling them all with absolute perfection.

2.) MacBook Pro 15-inch:

Price: $1,529 and up
Thickness: 0.95 inches
Weight: 5.6 pounds

The MacBook Pro 15 inch comes with a heavily built Intel Core i5 processor, a huge honking battery in the aluminum shell and an influential Nvidia graphics chip. The 15-inch display of the system is stunning. If you are ready to pay more than $1,500 for netbook that weighs a tad more than 5 pounds, then this is the best you can get.

3.) Dell Inspiron 15:

Price: $379 and up
Thickness: 1.02 to 1.48 inches
Weight: 5.6 pounds

Considering the fact that this laptop comes with a 15.6-inch display and a full-sized keyboard, the price of the system is really nice. There are plenty of upgrade options available for the buyers and if you can then definitely go for it. You can easily get a decent Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a muscular 500 GB hard drive and 4 GB of random-access memory, and still the price of the machine will go up to only $500.

4.) HP Pavilion dm4t:

Price: $729.99 and up
Weight: 4.4 pounds
Thickness: 1 inch

Hewlett-Packard (HP) offers a wide range of notebook options for its consumers, and the HP Pavilion dm4t is one of the finest among them. It’s hard to go wrong with HP Pavilion dm4t. Though. It’s not the cheapest thin-and-light HP model, but the system does have plenty of power and value in a machine which weighs around 4.4 pounds and is less than 1 inch thicker. It also has plenty of up options, which you can get as per your liking or requirement.

5.) Asus U30Jc:

Price: $849.99 and up
Thickness: 1.2 inches
Weight: 4.8 pounds

If you want a notebook that can play all the latest video games then you’ll have to pay extra both in terms of weight and in terms of money. This laptop comes loaded with Intel’s Core i3-350M processor, which provides it decent amount of power. The real magic here although is that the Nvidia discrete graphics processor, which remains on for the gaming duration, but remains off rest of the time.

6.) HP Mini 311 Netbook:

Price: $359 and up
Thickness: 1.2 inches
Weight: 3.26 pounds

Though, it’s hard to hate notebooks, especially as they are light, cheap and thin. But there are certain drawbacks of these features as well, and one of the major one is that the laptop lacks the real computing punch. The HP Mini311 offers a lot more than what you actually get from the cheapest netbooks. The notebook comes loaded with an Nvidia Ion graphics chip along with Intel’s Atom netbook processor, which makes this notebook a lot more appealing than the conventional notebooks that we see in the market.

7.) Alienware m11x:

Price: $799 and up
Thickness: 1.29 inches
Weight: 4.4 pounds and up

The last in our list is the Alienware m11x, which packs plenty of power into a really portable device. The best thing here is that this 11-inch laptop is affordable as well. The standard equipment list for the system includes fast Nvidia graphics processor and Intel Core i5 CPU.

So these are the top seven back-to-school laptops that you can use while looking for the best back to school laptop for your kids.