What type of laptop should I get?

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Amy

I have been doing a lot of research on different laptop brands, but I was just curious what some of your opinions would be. I am about to be a freshman college student, and I have never owned a laptop before. That being said, I want something that is CHEAP (so Apple MacBooks are out of the question), but not cheap in quality. My maximum budget is about $800.

These are some of my must-haves:
14"-15" screen (preferably touchscreen)
Windows 8
Intel i3 or i5 processor (not familiar with AMD processors)
Optical DVD-RW Drive: for watching movies and burning discs
Webcam and Microphone
Backlit keyboard
Good tech support

Storage capacity doesn't matter, since I will be purchasing a separate external hard drive with it.

Software I will be purchasing with it:
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013
McAfee Total Protection Security

I've been looking into the Lenovo, Sony, and Dell computers. Any suggestions or advice? Thanks

Answer
Depends on what you want if you want durability, buy Dell. DELL has recently good computers that don't break very easily and when they do dell support is awesome.

Lenovo is a very professional brand, everything will run fine, and durability is good too, usually,so is battery life on their,laptops

Acer is good,for ultrabooks and other thin long battery life laptops

I would steer clear of hp and sony

Would you recommend a Macbook Air or Pro for college?

ClockwrkCr

I will be starting my freshman year of college next year and am going to order a new Macbook. I will either be getting the new 2013 13.3" 128 GB Macbook Air or the 13" 2.5GHz 500 GB Macbook Pro. I was thinking I am not going to use complex programs that will push these laptops to their limits nor end up using all 128 GBs or 500 GBs of the Macbooks so I might as well go with the lighter and more portable one in the Air. I've had my current laptop for a couple years now and I've only used up 76 GB of my hard drive so far and if I run out of space on the Air, I can just buy an external hard drive or whatever. What would you guys recommend? Have you had either Macbook for college?
@theoneandonly I'm not sure if you know this or not, but the new 2013 MBA has the new and faster processor in the Haswell chip, which I believe makes the MBA faster than the Pro.

Answer
I would personally recommend the Macbook Pro rather than the Air for college for a variety of reasons
a.) The Macbook Pro has an Optical Disk Drive -- Although it may not seem like you will use the disk drive, MANY teachers/professors hand out files on discs to students, so it will be a pain to handle an external disk drive everytime you get a disc to view.

b.)The Macbook Pro has a Kensington Security Slot -- It may not seem that you might need this -- I thought the same, however, when I got the corresponding cable along with the slot and locked my laptop up, all my friends' laptops were stolen, but mine was still there.

c.)The Macbook Pro has the faster processor -- You said that you don't push laptops to their limits, so you simply do not need the SSD's speed in the Macbook Air -- However, for day-to-day tasks, a faster processor helps.

d.)Upgradability -- 2 years from now, it is possible to change out your RAM, HDD, CPU (maybe), etc. on the Macbook Pro to keep it running faster. However, this is not possible on the Air as everything is soldered.

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