Drop your recommendations for the following
- Pens (ballpoint, gel, fountain)
- metal ruler
- water bottle
- backpack
- pe bag (duffel or drawstring)
- Scissors
- Keyboard and mouse
- Laptop
- lunch box
- wallet
- lever arch folders
- sharpener
- power bank
Thanks
Drop your recommendations for the following
Thanks
I’ve heard good things about Fjallraven bags, but not sure about the school applicability.
Scissors, I’m a fan of the Fiskars kids scissors. Small and still pretty good performance.
Avoid the laptop; they’re just no good for learning. But if it’s absolutely required the MacBook Neo has performance for most student applications. No computer is BIFL.
Not happy about the Neo going up $100. $700 is a lot to spend on a young kid’s school laptop.
I’ve got a smaller Fjallraven backpack. It’s very well made but I find the straps uncomfortable if it’s pretty well packed. If OP is just carrying around a laptop and a couple small things, it’s a great bag, but if they’re bringing all their books and a large water bottle and all that, I think their shoulders will get tired quickly.
That’s what I’ve thought is the case based on my online shopping.
They should sell strap pads if they don’t already. I think that would be a good idea and I’d buy a pack for my bag. I’d love to be able to use mine more, but the thin straps with zero padding really isn’t the most comfortable design.
Indeed, laptops and even more so power banks, strike me as some of the least BIFL products in existence. Only Smartphones and wireless a earbuds might be worse.
If the child is amenable, a used thinkpad with Linux will keep running smoothly basically forever, take a beating, and be serviceable.
And get them in all kind of arguments over office formats.