If you have a bigger budget, and want a better screen, keyboard, trackpad, speakers and performance, particularly for video conferencing, my picks for laptops under £1,000 are the excellent Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 at £899 with student discount, or the latest Apple MacBook Air. Of the traditional laptops on offer for £499 or so, the Asus X409JA or Acer Aspire 5 are worth looking at.īut if you want something a bit more flexible, the 10.5-inch Microsoft Surface Go 2 Windows 10 tablet costs around £479 with a keyboard with student discount. Be aware that at this price you will sacrifice typing and mousing experience, speaker and webcam quality, and probably battery life, too. Generally, you can get a good Windows 10 laptop for about £500. Make sure it’s at least 1080p resolution. I recommend a 13-inch to 14-inch screen as a happy medium. Screen size is up to you – smaller is better for carrying around, larger better if it’s fixed to a desk. They may be cheap and come with a fair bit of storage, but they’ll be slow. Don’t be tempted to buy a laptop with a traditional magnetic hard drive.
Look for the latest 10th-generation Intel i5 or i7 processors, at least 8GB of RAM, and 128GB or more of SSD storage.
Photograph: Wavebreak Media/Alamy Stock Photo A must-have … with a lot of teaching now online it’s probably worth spending a bit more on a laptop.
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