Is a laptop needed for college when you already have a desktop?

Yes, you will need a MacBook for college.

What country?

get a chromebook for like $200 and put any real money towards *useful* desktop upgrades. that is more ram, and NVMe m.2 adapter cards

No, but you'll probably want one anyway. There's likely going to be a lot of downtime and computer labs at universities are usually bullshit.

Laptop gives you mobility, that's the main advantage.

You actually don't. Paper and pen is sufficient

>>59029828
Depends on the courses you take.

>>59029828
Thinkpad X220 will cover your college needs

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>>59029828
In theory >>59029923 is right,
However in Praxis you wanna have at least one device with you that holds up your pdfs or whatever form your presentation/exercise come in.

A 1200$ Facebook machine is not needed for that.

>>59029828
Why not mITX?

You'll probably would want to take notes and browse from time to time. In this case any 200-400€ laptop with a distro of your choice is completely sufficient. Just make sure that it has proper linux driver support.

Anything "bigger" such as compiling, editing etc. can be done from your desktop.

>>59029828
>Is a laptop needed for college when you already have a desktop?
If you're in a relevent field, it's useless, you can't write mathematic formulas fast enough with a computer.
Take a cheap tablet for the pdf if needed but anything else is useless.
If you're in a garbage field that recquires lots of brain-numbing endless text writing take a facebook machine, you're in for a shitty life anyway better have fun wasting money while you can.

>>59030451
This.

>>59029828
>>59029858 is a damned liar.
Get a cheap laptop for note-taking. Anything sub-300 and has at least a sandy bridge processor is good enough for a word/excel/powerpoint machine.

>>59029828
Not really, but having one probably will help you. Just buy a cheap one laptop or an old Thinkpad.
X220/T420 will be enough.