Best laptop for college

Can you help us with any thoughts about the best lap top for our daughter entering college this fall.
Thanks

Contact her major department for their recommendations.
Some schools say, "Bring whatever, you'll be fine."
Others say, "We want you to use specific Hardware because that is all we are prepared to support."
Others say, "To be in this major, we want you to use the xyzzy package, which runs only on this specific system."
Still others say, "Bring a few pens, and maybe a typewriter."

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What is the best laptop for a family- value, price,etc?

When a family shares a computer it is best to create individual accounts for each user so that email, messages, and contacts don't get blended. (Parents can set up administrator accounts for themselves and the kids can have normal accounts.) So far so good, all Apple notebooks can handle this.
Potential problem: digital photos, music, and movies. Assuming you have kids they are likely to download more music and video than the parents. Since the kids will eventually leave the nest you'll probably want to have them establish their own Apple IDs so they can take their music with them when they leave without having to have access to your family ID. Leaving this issue aside, for family use you will want to have the largest hard drive possible to accomodate all the users.
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So I need a laptop for college, which I will also use for personal use. I've decided to get a MacBook Pro without Retina display and am trying to decide the specs.

Here are the things I will do with this laptop:
-Writing essays for college (which will be a lot)
-PowerPoints
-Personal Writing (Stories and things like that)
-Internet Surfing and Research (which means multiple tabs at a time)
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-Downloads (PDFs)
-I don't play games.
So, with all of this in mind, what kind of specs and OS would be best? I will admit to not knowing a lot about computers and what's needed to do what I want, or much about the technicalities. I do know that I will be using 8gb of RAM, though I am not sure about HDD vs. SSD. I've basically been living off my iPad for Internet and stuff for the past two years and writing my papers at campus, but now that I'm going to be taking more English and writing-based classes, I'm going to need a laptop.

There's only one non-Retina MacBook Pro being sold by Apple now - the 13" on the left of the Apple Store page for MBPs.
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I Will being off to college soon, and am in need of a laptop. Yes the MacBook seems as if it's a brilliant laptop, but not sure if its right for me.
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I Need to know if it's worth paying for the wonderful design the MacBook gives, but the Intel core M chip is a downer when it comes to benchmark comparisons. Can someone change my mind? Is the MacBook right for me?

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Gaming technologies and build concepts sometimes are useful in video production builds, but not always. Stuff like graphics rendering often doesn't affect video.
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My brother's graduation present is going to be a MacBook for college and it is my responsibility to find one for him. I was just wondering if you had any suggestions. He is not very tech savvy but doesn't have trouble using what he needs because we already have a Mac.

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The stock white MacBook through the education store is $949.00.
The stock aluminum MacBook through the education store is $1249.00.
The main differences between these two machines are hard drive size (which is very easy to upgrade & replace yourself) and RAM type. The aluminum MacBook uses DDR3 RAM; the white MacBook uses DDR2. Both machines that I listed have the 2.0GHz core 2 duo processor.
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There's a good chance you can get a SIGNIFICANT student discount through your school on the "required" OS since it's a relatively uncommon variant that most students aren't going to have.
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That's pretty much it. I want to take into account portability and power. I'm nervous about my purchase because I don't know what my college experience will be like. I don't know if I'll be hauling my laptop everywhere or not, but I would like to be prepared for it!
Checking the university's site, the basic 13" fits the min. requirements, but I don't mind going beyond. I'd like to stay below $2300, so money isn't too much of a hindrance.
The Genius at Apple said I was smart for wanting a portable 13", but is 15" really so bad?

Thanks very much for the response! Very informative. Yes, I continue to lean towards the 13" for portability. I know some people say 15" is hardly a difference, but I am a very petite person and want very little load on me when I'm getting across the expansive campus.
Yes, I am interested in the computer sciences (I have a lot to learn, but I am luckily a quick learner!). But heck, who knows? I might change my major around a bit. I also love British Lit--two very different majors. One needs a lot of processing power and one needs hardly any.
I don't know what the college experience is like yet. I'm hoping that if I decide to go for the smaller screen, that the computer labs are at the ready if I need more real estate. On the other hand, maybe I'll hardly need to ever take my laptop out of the dorm. In that case, there's really no reason to go with the 13" and I might as well get the biggest and best I can afford (and really, I could afford the 17"--been saving for awhile).
What I need to do is visit my future campus and talk to some of the students to learn their computer habits. It would be great to visit during Christmas break but unfortunately I just had mouth surgery and am not really up to traveling and socializing.
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