Laptop for student with Touch Screen Recommendation

Lkamb1ng on 18/11/2020 - 17:44

Hi all, my daughter gets a laptop from school currently and it's an Acer Spin 5. The feature she loves most is the touch screen. She's moving to a new school which doesn't provide a laptop so I'm looking for one that has touchscreen.

Based on my research I've seen these three around the same price point ($1200-ish):
- Dell Inspiron 14 5000 2-in-1 Laptop (https://www.dell.com/en-au/shop/2-in-1-laptops/inspiron-14-5…)

Any recommendation or other brands?

Criteria:
- Touch screen
- 13 or 14" screen
- Intel i5 or higher or equivalent AMD

Thank you very much.

Computing Computer Laptop

Comments

  • Quantumcat on 18/11/2020 - 18:06
    +1

    Surface are handy for school as they weigh very little. You can get pens for them that work very nicely - the screen detects the point hovering over it and you can move the cursor around without touching the screen (it is not a stylus). It is comfortable for writing, easy to do eg maths assignments.

    Otherwise Dell XPS are good. I believe they come in either 13" or 15" screens.

    • kerfuffle on 18/11/2020 - 18:09

      Only the Surface Laptop Go meets the OP's $1200 budget though … Plus you can't use a Surface Pen with the Surface Laptop Go. The cheapest Surface Laptop 3 starts at I think $1699.

      XPS aren't $1200 either unless they're refurbished?

      • Quantumcat on 18/11/2020 - 18:11

        Does it have to be brand new? I got my current dell XPS 15 from work last year for $1000, I think it is a 2018 model. A 1 or 2 year old surface pro should fit in the budget too.

        • kamb1ng on 18/11/2020 - 21:39

          Doesn't have to be new. Refurb is also OK. Where can I find XPS refurb?

  • Emerald Owl on 18/11/2020 - 21:41

    Surface Pro 6 or 7. Kids love tablets.
    You can search the whole internet using Google Shopping.

    • kamb1ng on 18/11/2020 - 22:00

      She is in high school and at home will connect the laptop to a monitor. I think a laptop would work better vs a tablet.

      • Quantumcat on 18/11/2020 - 22:09
        +1

        A surface is a tablet only because you can pull the keyboard off. It functions as a laptop - you can plug a hdmi cable in (possibly with a display port adapter). I used a surface pro 2 for several years as my primary machine studying computer science at uni.

  • trex on 19/11/2020 - 00:54

    Bought a Flex 5 for around $900 about a month ago. I highly recommend it. There’s plenty of YouTube videos with good reviews of the Flex 5. It’s abit heavier than Surface Pro though. But Flex 5 has bigger screen and battery.

    • kamb1ng on 19/11/2020 - 11:44

      Cheers, good to hear positive feedback about Flex 5. How did you manage to get it at that price? Is that the i3 model?

      Did you compare it with Inspiron 5000 2-in-1?

      I'm about to go to Officeworks/JB with my daughter to have a feel at the Flex 5. The Inspiron looks better on picture but can't feel them first.

      • trex on 19/11/2020 - 12:38

        Apologies, it was $950 (with an Active Stylus included). I got it through doweyy. It's a AMD Ryzen 5 4500U model with 512GB SSD.

        No idea on Inspiron, it looks good too.

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