Laptop for Health Sciences?

College Life
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<p>I’m going to be a cognitive science major, later pursuing a health science career.
I don’t know much about laptops at all, so I’m hoping the lovely people of College Confidential will help me! (Thank you for reading this, by the way.)</p>

<p>I’d like my laptop to be:
-Extremely durable, and lasting me past 8 years of usage
-Excellent battery life
-Not too susceptible to viruses
-Doesn’t heat up too much
-Is relatively light, preferably lighter than 5.5 pounds
-Decent at multitasking (won’t go berserk if I have seven tabs open on the internet, or have Skype and iTunes going at the same time)</p>

<p>What it’ll be doing:
-Social media networks (Facebook/Youtube/Gmail/Tumblr/etc)
-Video Chats
-Word documents/powerpoints/etc
-Occasional video uploads
-Photo storage
-Music/iTunes
-Downloading various media frequently</p>

<p>Everyone I’ve talked to says Apple’s the way to go with the Macbook Pro, but I’m paying for my own laptop, so a cheaper laptop would be nice.</p>

<p>Thank you again for your help!</p>

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<p>Go to dealnews dot com. There’s quite a few laptop that fits your specs at an affordable price.</p>

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<p>I hate to say it, but Apply is your best bet. I am a senior science major in health and my last apple lasted me 7 years. I do have an issue with one class and a program, but I think that the computer is worth the price. Just make sure to partition it with bootcamp and buy a windows platform for it as well. An Apply can run mac and PC, a PC has a more trouble with doing that.</p>

<p>Otherwise I have heard that the Asus computers are pretty good./ They used to make motherboards and now have entered the computer market.</p>

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<p>Thank you all for your advice!</p>