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1. WHICH MACBOOK IS BEST FOR COLLEGE PRO
2. WHICH MACBOOK IS BEST FOR COLLEGE PLUS
3. WHICH MACBOOK IS BEST FOR COLLEGE TV
4. WHICH MACBOOK IS BEST FOR COLLEGE MAC

I love the MacBook Air-even without a Retina display, it’s got the right mix of size, weight, performance, and ports that I need day in and day out. The Apple Watch keeps you on schedule and in touch with your loved ones-which makes it pretty perfect for students. It’ll let you keep track of your calendar, see when the next bus is coming, order an Uber, answer a phone call, set alarms, make Apple Pay transactions, and never miss a text from your bestie. After a year, I still love mine the most for its fitness features, and students should find the glanceable info it provides invaluable. So it might not be the best time to pick up the first model, although it’s never been cheaper, starting at $299 for the 38mm Apple Watch Sport. The rumors about an Apple Watch 2 say it could be announced in September, alongside the next iPhone. These probably shouldn’t find their way into your shopping cart today, but they’ll all be solid buys for students when Apple does refresh them. We’re stuck in a little bit of a holding pattern waiting for some Apple products that should be coming soon.

WHICH MACBOOK IS BEST FOR COLLEGE TV

With a $49 Lightning Digital AV Adapter, you can hook it up to your TV without needing a set-top box-but you could beam content over wirelessly with a $35 Chromecast or a $149 Apple TV. Of course, college isn’t all work and no play, and an iPad has tons of entertainment options too, from streaming video services to games. The Smart Keyboard never needs charging or pairing.

WHICH MACBOOK IS BEST FOR COLLEGE PRO

In fact, I’d rather read ebooks on an iPad than any other device, and the iPad Pro has Night Shift and True Tone to keep those late-night study sessions easy on the eyes. The multitasking features in iOS 9 let you research in Safari while writing a paper in Byword or Scrivener-or just watch movies in the Picture in Picture window while you’re catching up on your reading.

WHICH MACBOOK IS BEST FOR COLLEGE PLUS

With a Wi-Fi plus cellular model, you’ll always be online, on campus or off. The iPad Pro has some more advantages for students too. The Apple Pencil is great for note-taking, if you’re more of a handwriting person than a typing person. We like the $45 Satechi Type-C Pass Through USB Hub with USB-C Charging Port if you don’t plan to hook up an external display, or the $150 OWC USB-C Dock if you do.

A USB-C dock would let you keep peripherals hooked up, like a hard drive for backups, an external display, or just a couple spare USB ports to charge your iPhone and iPad. And you can always pick up a dock for the desk in your dorm room. This shouldn’t slow you down when taking notes in class or studying in the library-it gets 10 hours of battery life, after all. The MacBook only has a single USB-C port, along with a standard headphone jack. Keep OWC’s USB-C Dock on your desk, and you’ll be able to connect just about anything to your single-port MacBook.

WHICH MACBOOK IS BEST FOR COLLEGE MAC

It’s got a lovely Retina screen, and at just a hair over 2 pounds, it’s the lightest Mac you can buy, which makes it perfect for students whose laptops spend a lot of time in backpacks getting lugged from the dorms to class to the library and back. So if you need something today, the 12-inch MacBook (starting at $1299 in the Apple Store) is the most recently upgraded Mac laptop, having gotten a proper refresh this April. The MacBook is Apple’s lightest (and pinkest) laptop. Rumor has it, Apple is poised to introduce totally redesigned MacBook Pros this fall, but perhaps not until October. As of this writing, the MacBook Air lineup has not been refreshed in 525 days, since March of 2015, and the Retina MacBook Pro lineup has languished 454 days, since May 2015. Look, I’ll just level with you: This isn’t the greatest time in history to be in the market for a cutting-edge Mac laptop.