What is the best laptop computer for a college student?

A dell Inspiron would be best, as it is a lot cheaper than a Mac book pro, plus most models have windows 7, which from your question detail, will suit you. Look at all the models, the dell website will let you customize it too. Another laptop worth looking at, is a vaio, a bit more expensive p, but worth it as fast, and cheaper than a Mac book, it has Windows's 7, again look at all the models available

I'll suggest you Lenovo G570 4334DDU 15.6-Inch Laptop http://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-4334DDU-15-6-Inch-Laptop-Black/dp/B007CKT5Y8/ref=sr_1_9?m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&s=pc&tag=basebal-20&ie=UTF8&qid=1335818971&sr=1-9 Specs: - 2nd Generation Intel Core i5 2.5GHz Processor - 4GB RAM - 500GB hard drive - Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit This laptop is lightweight at around 5.7 pounds and you easily can carry it. Since, you don't do hard core gaming, this laptop should be best option for you. You can also look at Apple Macbook and since you're fresh college student - avail discount as well at http://www.apple.com/students/mac/

You must try the Dell Inspiron 17R - Its worth every penny you pay. Comes with some really good stuff in it and the best of all, its affordable. Everything a college student needs. Just got my brother who is a Freshman starting this Fall.. Try it

it depend upon what you are going to take as your career , if it's related to engineering then buy a i-5,dedicated gpu(amd is prefferd),1tb hardisk at least i-7 has heating issues..... i won't prefer mac as there os suck's doesn't support every software and there ton's of issues which normal people don't know

I would suggest Dell XPS X15Z-7502ELS 15-Inch Laptop Intel Core i7 2637M Processor 2.8GHz 6GB DIMM RAM 500GB 7200RPM Hard Drive 15-Inch Screen, NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

You will need to long and hard for you to whip the majority of Samsung machines with respect to durability and value for virtually every purpose.

I would just NOT say hp. I got mine freshmen year, crashed the beginning of junior, right after the warranty ended.

I know most people are going to reccommend the laptop minis (netbooks) but there are 3 disadvantages. First, they have no CD drive, and although they do make usb ones, they arent cheap. Next, they are just as much as a decent full sized which i find easier to type on than a tiny one. Finally they just don't seem to have the processing power you would need for reports and such when using MS WORD, or PowerPoint, or Excel, etc. I would reccommend a 15inch (or 13-17inch range) compaq presario laptop using windows 7 ultimate. I had both a desktop presario, and a laptop model a900. They both were amazing, and handled like a new car would with windows 7 ultimate. As far as pricing goes, its been a few years so you may have to look in to it. Again its a suggestion. You can also look into some dells, a toshiba satellite also should suffice. As far as macs go, im not a big mac person but i must give them 3 points for being fast, having good programs associated with them, and having a very tiny amount of virus's designed for them. (id still reccomend antivirus software such as avg). Hope this helps