
It boasts a gorgeous 13.3” Retina display and built-in SSD storage, which is upgradeable to 512GB. The recently released and updated Apple MacBook Air is a powerful and compact laptop, with plenty of bells and whistles, and is the best MacBook for students, thanks to its relatively budget-friendly price and long-lasting battery, 12 hours on a single charge. Not that much lighter than top pick, though cheaper.Additionally, it lacks the updated thermal architecture found with the updated 16” model, so unlike the Macbook Pro 16-inch it can overheat with many applications running at once. Though the weight, at three pounds, is still relatively light for the amount of power on offer, this laptop is still heavier than the MacBook Air. Related: Check out our best Mackbook for college students.

We also found the audio on this Macbook Pro 13-inch to be loud and crisp, particularly for a laptop. It boasts a fantastic SSD drive, upgradeable to 2TB, and a long-lasting battery that will get you more than ten hours of use on a single charge, which is enough for all-day use. This Apple 13-inch MacBook Pro features a 13” Retina display, which is upgradeable to 15”, and a speedy 2.4 GHz 8th-Generation quad-core Intel Core i5 processor, upgradeable to 2.8 GHz, which we found to be plenty capable of running multiple intensive applications at once. Can get overheated with many applications running.Reasonably portable, 3 lb, but still heavier than Air line.
