Laptop for secondary school

[Trulybluey]

DD has just started year 7 and needs a laptop she can use at school. The school uses MS Teams and Microsoft. She has dyslexia and dysgraphia and can use a school laptop but we have talked to the school and it would be better if she had her own laptop. Can anyone suggest a lightweight and portable laptop with a long battery life? There are so many options!

macbook would be light, great battery life and can have all the Microsoft apps on it, but is very expensive for a Y7.

surface might be your best best

Toshiba laptops always used to be very robust which would also be very important for school (I used to work in the industry)

I bought a Lenovo to do a degree - it’s very very portable, battery lasts a full day at least, very user friendly. I’d buy another if anything happened to it

A surface Go laptop is a nice computer, small to lightweight but big enough to be useful, touch screen etc… my daughter (off to uni) is happy with it.

Don't go MacBook lots of the software that's used at school isn't compatible

Microsoft surface go - if they are a Microsoft school, or whatever the others use in class.

Thanks, I will look up all the suggestions. The surface go 3 doesn't get very good reviews though.

A lot of our students use a Chromebook.

The go laptop is different from the go, I prefer the laptop version.

Very outdated argument now. If you have the budget get a MacBook. If not get a ChromeBook, I wouldn't bother with a cheap windows laptop, Nearly everything is web based these days so battery life, being robust and the display is more important.

I see that now, the laptop version hers much better reviews than the tablet version.

DD (Y9) has dyslexia and hypermobile fingers so finds writing hard. She started with a laptop, but moved last year to using an iPad with a keyboard and e-pen.

Made a massive difference - it's smaller and lighter, and she can use the camera function to take photos of the board and worksheets and then annotate them using the pen. Was also a lot cheaper than a laptop.

It works with teams and with Office 365.

We didn't get the Apple keyboard or pen but a cheaper version that was compatible and both work really well.

Re battery life, I got her the 128GB one and a full charge easily lasts the whole day at school plus watching videos on the train on the way home.

My son has a surface book pro. It's absolutely brilliant.

Thanks so much for the replies. Interesting about the iPad and e-pen, DD also has hypermobility in her fingers.