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My niece asked what devices she should take to her first year of college. She was thinking of buying iMac and iPad. She already has a new iPhone. What do college students use these days?

So far I thought of:

0. Paper and pen. (Personal preference: I gotta have doodling when bored….)
1. Cell phone to record audio. (Possibly convert to text later? How good is the conversion?)
2. Tablet to record audio. (Possibly convert to text later? How good is the conversion?)
3. Tablet to jot handwriting. (Possible convert to text later, though from what I've seen those conversions aren't very good.)
4. Laptap to type notes while in class and do work in dorm. I'm partial to MacBookPro.

Off the top of my head I recommended #4, supplemented where necessary by #1 and #0. That seemed the KISSiest to old-fashioned me. I sure wouldn't want to write a thesis on an iPad.