http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/laptops/10-best-laptops-for-students-983385

You won’t make it far in college or university without owning a perfectly capable and resilient laptop that can roll with the punches just as well as it can keep up with the brisk pace of campus life. At the same time, being a student itself is a full-time job, and for most people, forking over several thousand bills in any currency simply isn’t in the cards.

That’s why we’ve tested every laptop we could get our hands on to determine – among hybrids, Ultrabooks gaming notebooks and traditional clamshells – the best laptops for college students. Of the ones we determined to deliver top-notch quality for a cost-effective price, we narrowed the top laptops for college students down to a mere 10, delineated below.