The fundamental question that arises for me is whether I will need a laptop or an Ipad for my upcoming studies.
I tend to prefer the laptop. Are there any business administration students here who would recommend their laptop to me? In terms of price range, I don't think I'll need a 2000 euro laptop. I reckon with a maximum of 1000 - 1400 euro or is that too much?
Laptop is better in most cases because you can just do more with it and work much more comfortably.
Stupidly speaking, a normal laptop for 600-800 euro is enough for you to study business administration.
In the normal case we're talking about Excel, Word + Internet
The problem is, it always depends on what exactly you want to do and what is important to you.
I have an old laptop lying here that probably costs 100 euro so I can do everything I have to do. But it's just slower, doesn't look fency and just doesn't have great specifications
I have a convertible, can do both, find the rest nonsense.
It's hard to believe, we used to only have pen and paper.
Usually a laptop, because you can do more with it.
With a tablet it is also worse to learn in my opinion.
You do have advantages such as less paper or less to lug around, but it is often the case that you want to look at several pages at the same time or generally want the size of an A4 sheet of paper and tablets are not really available at the moment.
Maximum the large iPad Pro. And then scrolling and sliding every few words on the tablet is not that great either.
You also create a "better connection" to your notes on paper because you always have the sheets physically in front of you and they don't disappear behind an icon.
You can also classify certain topics better because you know where they appear in the leaves, whether above or below. With the tablet you only write on one surface, always and you don't have the spatial aspect of notes.
I find that tablets offer very good logistical advantages for organization, etc., but they do not promote the actual learning process, as they can potentially be very distracting or fail at inconvenient times.
But it's very subjective, like a lot in life.
Laptop. If you have a PowerPoint Presi, excel, word, etc. Connect a USB stick, etc.
I don't study business studies myself, so I can only help you to a limited extent. Still, I would just pass on what helped me choose.
First and foremost, you shouldn't look what others have, but what your requirements are for the device. If you want a device, I find a laptop more practical because it is often larger and the screen stays in an upright position by itself. But under no circumstances do you need a device in the four-digit range for this.
If you want to take it with you to university, you should think about which size fits in your pockets. And at university too, the question is, what do you want to do with your device? Even there, any cheap laptop is enough to look at the slides. If you want to take notes on the device, you should consider whether you prefer to do it by hand or with the keyboard. Using the hand would rather speak for a tablet with a pen, and using the keyboard for a laptop.
Then you should consider whether you need or want to write longer texts on the device. On the other hand, I personally find a keyboard more pleasant than a tablet pen. However, you can also buy a keyboard for tablets.
Another question is whether you need to give presentations that you create on the device. Personally, I would never want to do that on a tablet, a laptop would be an absolute must for me.
In business administration you could also do calculations. Should invoices be written down on paper or on the device? I would personally find a pen more practical than a keyboard.
If you're in a tie, I'd buy a convertible for you. I have one of these myself for university so that I can take short notes directly on the PDFs of the lecture slides, but be able to type longer texts. I'm very happy with him with him. Due to the current situation, I connect it to an additional screen so that I can watch my meetings / lecture videos on it while I take notes on the device myself.
At the price: for the university, a four-digit figure is completely exaggerated. Office products are used for most courses, so a much cheaper device is sufficient. As far as I know, even convertibles are now available from 300/400 euro. For the university alone, the performance will be enough.
What you should definitely pay attention to is the battery performance of your device. In many lecture halls there's still no way to charge devices. No matter what you choose, it should last a day at school.
Whether you need something more expensive depends on the additional use of your device. You need performance to gamble, then it gets more expensive. If it doubles as a television, a better screen makes sense.
