An education focused laptop would be great, since most schools use god awful chrome books.

Something like the 11" MacBook Air was. A 12" 1080p display, slimmed down M1, and 16GB RAM would be great as a laptop for school students.

MacBooks are very well designed. Excellent build quality, long lasting batteries, amazing displays, very thin and light, and the M chips are very powerful, efficient, and run very cool.

MacBooks are some of the best laptops. Last a long time, excellent build quality, amazing displays and battery life, they really are worth it. I would say that if you don’t do anything intensive, a MacBook Air would get the job done for cheaper.

I use Gmail, mostly because the Mail app doesn’t give me instant notifications.

don’t get anything brand new, its gonna be complete garbage. Get a used laptop off of ebay, something like a Lenovo ThinkPad or HP EliteBook would be great.

For years I’ve always used $10 clear cases from random Amazon brands that come with a screen protector. They have always worked great. And when they get scratched up or yellowed, oh well, another $10.

They both suck, do not buy either. Get a used laptop

HP Spectres are amazing laptops if you want to go up the premium range, mine is my best laptop I’ve ever had. Other good laptops are Dell XPS and Lenovo ThinkPads.