<p>Laptops
Advantages
Type faster
Neater
Easier to organize</p>
<p>Disadvantages
Can’t study while on the go, may discourage review
HDD failure risk (solution is just to back it up frequently)</p>
<p>Paper
Advantages
Rote memorization only comes with physically writing, not typing
Can be studied anywhere (while walking to class)
Can see all information at once (write on one side of the paper, you can recycle the other side for other notes in future quarters)</p>
<p>Disadvantages
More easily lost (just be organized)</p>
<p>Personally, I prefer writing with ball point pens on loose-leaf paper so I can organize it later. I think laptops are just distracting and I have a tendency to just type whatever the prof says, as opposed to paraphrasing it in a way that makes sense to me.</p>