Choosing a laptop?

I'm going to grade 7 soon and my math teacher has announced that we'll be working with Excel. My father said he'll buy me a laptop, but I don't know what to choose

Ask your teacher what system requirements she has, and then I would rather resort to a small, light device with a long standby time…

you have to carry it along with all the other things every day… There are size and weight factors that make the difference

I would always recommend Dell because they are just great laptops.

Macbook is for show-offs who are otherwise a little "too short" - or who work in the media industry (film and music editing)

And the other two brands are so la laptops…

Dell is the clear favorite…

You want to "just" run Office on it, you don't need an expensive Mac to do so… Save the money and invest in a lot of RAM and NVME's (better SSD)

A Mac is unnecessary - the P / L is just mad (200 euro hardware in a 1000 euro laptop), (the newer ones) not upgradeable etc. The OS is more of a toy.

Since you only have to work with Excel and probably also "only" add Office, you don't need a lot of performance, but you can still buy future-proof. Laptops with a modern i5 or Ryzen 3000/4000, 8-16 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD are available for around 500 euro

Personally, I would go on a Thinkpad - and I have one myself

It depends.

one is a fundamental decision:

Windows or MacOS or Chrome OS. Nobody can take that from you. Office is also available for MacOS and most programs run with Wine or similar. What you need in school. MacOS, if you have an affinity for IT, is also far more powerful than most people think.

Windows is known. Most of it runs without problems.

ChromeOS is based on a Linux distribution. Office usually runs here too. Under the hood, however, this is probably the most powerful with what you can do (and break).

In your case, a MacBook seems almost too much to me. Especially now that Apple is about to switch to Apple Silicon, I wouldn't necessarily buy an Intel Mac. Unless you have an Apple landscape in your home. Then the added value of the MacBook increases.

For the other 3, it's just personal preference.

All 3 should have enough performance, provided a 10th Gen Intel or a current AMD CPU is in it.

DEFINITELY