[JD159]

Sold laptops for 3 years at Futureshop. Still in the same field. Am also a University student. Own a Macbook pro for school and an i7 desktop for fun, games, media etc.

Get a Macbook pro. It will do all the basic functions he will need and plenty more. The reliability, safety and quick turn around time for any hardware issues by Apple is the most important during school. No need to worry about a virus, spyware, software issues and hardware is pretty much taken care of.

The reason I purchased mine was the battery life. Critical during lecture. With hundreds of students, and only 2 outlets, you get the idea…

Make sure to get a Solid State Drive (SSD) for quick power on from sleep mode. Other laptop's don't work that well powering back on from a low power state. No need to turn it off and on between lectures.

PS. My hinge was making a clicking noise, brought it to apple, changed the entire screen/top shell in one day no hassle.