Best Ultrabook for college?

Question

I will start my first semester of College in the Fall! I am so EXCITED.
I got accepted in the Pre-Medical program at my school and need some advice.

I originally planned to take my MacBook Air and buy a good notetaking tablet for class. But my despicable sister spilled tea and ruined my laptop.

Now I plan to take an Ultrabook and a good notetaking tablet.

I will keep the Ultrabook in my dorm and use it for homework and group projects. I really have no preference when it comes to the Ultrabook, I just need something that is fast, reliable, and will not generate lag overtime. A plus would be budget friendly.

The tablet will be used to take notes on, annotate PDFs, and read textbooks. For the tablet, it needs a stylus or a pen, whatever you want to call it. I would prefer a multi-window setting and a powerful battery.

I DO NOT CARE FOR GAMING, I WILL USE MY TIME MAINLY FOR STUDYING.

If there is any new ultrabooks or tablets that will come out later in the year that would be worthy waiting for. Please, let me know.

Answer 1

Honestly, you'll need a more high-powered laptop than an Ultrabook, unless you're ok with spending a lot of time on the library computers. As a pre-med student, you'll have to do a lot of lab sciences, and those will require spreadsheet/graphing programs such as Excel, which aren't available on a small laptop like an Ultrabook. You'd be much better off investing in a new proper laptop, and skipping the tablet (they aren't that great for taking notes on).

Answer 2

The majority of people get Macbooks because of the battery life. Some people just get them because a lot of people own Macs and they assume that the computer is meant for them. You always have to keep in mind all products are always targetted at a certain audience. For example, there are headphones for DJs, for gaming, and for computer monitoring. If you just need a laptop for good notetaking, you can basically get any computer. Even if you want to annotate PDFs. My 8 year old windows xp computer I'm currently using can read PDFs. It's all about what you exactly need to do. I recommend you purchase a google chromebook.

Answer 3

I have a Dell XPS 13- it works great for me.