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

Whether at college or university, as a student of academia, it’s essential to maximize your learning potential, so that you can better yourself and subsequently get a decent paying job in the real world. You can’t do that without owning one of the best laptops for students, and you can’t do that without knowing which is best for you. 

You may be thinking that no one cares about notebook PCs outside of study and work, but you would be wrong, as laptops are faring better than tablets at the moment. Whether you’re a Windows or a Mac – or even a Chromebook – person, the best laptops for students all come sporting recent Intel processors and graphics, but some also have ‘discrete’ Nvidia GPUs (graphics processors) ideal for light gaming and heavy video editing.