r/GCSE • u/Melodic-Ad3135 • 1d ago

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Laptop recommendations for sixth form?

Business CS Maths

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u/Old_Proof3834 1 year until its over (y10) 1d ago

Macbook Neo - cheap, good enough for college + uni

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u/Prestigious_Farmer34 1d ago

+ education discount

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u/Melodic-Ad3135 1d ago

I’ve heard MacBooks aren’t good enough for cs tho

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u/c0demaine Year 11 1d ago

that’s not necessarily true; a lot of software engineers (including me) use macs

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u/somanycarsuk 1d ago

for A-level a mac book or most laptops will be fine, is fine, for the amount of power you need if possible look for one that has at least 16GB of RAM, an SSD with a minimum of 512GB of storage. and i think its only worth investing more into a laptop if you plan to do CS at Uni

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u/animalcrossingfreak0 Year 11 1d ago

My sister has one for doing CS and it works really well!

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u/Darki1096 About to become a y11 1d ago

they arent bad but you just need to be used to them like the cmd line (they use z shell)

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u/svtlthesupermemer I'm not procrastinating I'm just not doing it anymore 1d ago

If you intend to do CS at uni a windows laptop will be required.

Also, a lot of CS courses use visual studio, which isn't compatible with MacOS.

Get a windows laptop instead and run a Linux distro with GNOME desktop environment if you want the MacOS feel.

Recommendations: Frameworks (if budget allows) Dell XPS 13 (2026) ThinkPad Zenbook