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Best Laptop For college

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My 12-year-old is driving me nuts, he wants a laptop so he can play multiplayer online games, and I want him to have one he can use for class. He doesn’t care how much it costs but I do! I have found these laptops and they seem good enough for school and games but I don’t know much about games. Which of these laptops is best for gaming and school http://technemag.com/best-laptop-for-college/
 
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/laptop-compatibility.106791/

If your son wants to game it's best to be running Windows and have discrete graphics. Even if you do want macOS for schoolwork and gaming you'd be limited to using the integrated graphics which are at best a major compromise for gaming.

There is a Mac and Windows dual boot option but that just makes a complicated laptop hackintosh install.... more complex than it already is. Since it's about 6 years till he's off to college you'll probably be buying a new laptop by that time anyway, I would get him a basic Win10 laptop with decent gaming graphics and forget about macOS for now.

This buying advice forum is for PC hardware choices for installing macOS and not Windows on a desktop computer. Post any further questions in the Laptops section of the forum. Thanks.
 
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