Best laptops for students: MacBooks, Microsoft Surface

Who is this for: Students who have hobbies outside of school – which we hope are the case for all of you – will enjoy the impressive cloud gaming and general purpose features that the Acer Chromebook 516 GE offers. It goes on sale frequently (even though it already has a pretty affordable MSRP), so luckily it won't break the bank once you've already spent a lot of money on textbooks. If you take advantage of these great Chromebook Plus subscription benefits, you'll save even more money. Why we chose: Going to school shouldn't be all work and no play. Fortunately, the affordable Acer Chromebook 516 GE can do both. An affordable gaming Chromebook offers great value cloud PC gaming and all the features you need to get things done. The Chromebook 516 GE breaks the cloud gaming mold, offering impressive performance for general use and game streaming, a very good display, solid additional benefits, and more for just $649 (we've even seen it on sale for $499). . During the testing period, all of the Game Pass titles we loaded worked flawlessly and were fun to play, despite a negligible loss in fidelity, but that's always to be expected when streaming games. We also never experienced any input lag or stuttering.