
And you can always pick up a dock for the desk in your dorm room. This shouldn’t slow you down when taking notes in class or studying in the library-it gets 10 hours of battery life, after all. The MacBook only has a single USB-C port, along with a standard headphone jack.

Keep OWC’s USB-C Dock on your desk, and you’ll be able to connect just about anything to your single-port MacBook. It’s got a lovely Retina screen, and at just a hair over 2 pounds, it’s the lightest Mac you can buy, which makes it perfect for students whose laptops spend a lot of time in backpacks getting lugged from the dorms to class to the library and back. So if you need something today, the 12-inch MacBook (starting at $1299 in the Apple Store) is the most recently upgraded Mac laptop, having gotten a proper refresh this April.

The MacBook is Apple’s lightest (and pinkest) laptop. Rumor has it, Apple is poised to introduce totally redesigned MacBook Pros this fall, but perhaps not until October. As of this writing, the MacBook Air lineup has not been refreshed in 525 days, since March of 2015, and the Retina MacBook Pro lineup has languished 454 days, since May 2015. Don’t even think about sneaking around: Until the timer ends, you can’t access what’s blacklisted, even if you restart your Mac or delete the app.Look, I’ll just level with you: This isn’t the greatest time in history to be in the market for a cutting-edge Mac laptop. You add sites you know will distract from your work to a blacklist, and then they are blocked until the timer expires. This lightweight Mac app doesn’t mess around. When it comes to self-control, most of us have little, especially when there’s a term paper that needs to be worked on and Reddit is calling. It’s super-useful if you’re constantly borrowing or loaning dollars to your friends. The interface is dead simple: Just add a debt or credit, enter the amount of the transaction and who it was to, and attach an optional note to help you remember what it was for. This little iPhone app keeps track of everything you owe and everything you’re owed. There’s an iOS app and a Mac companion app. Mint is an excellent finance-management tool that intelligently categorizes your purchases and keeps you on top of your cash flow. If you’re in college, you’re likely broke or in desperate need of a budget. So you can write problems out like you would on paper, except the app figures them out for you. MyScript Calculator calculates math problems that you write out in normal handwriting. This app won the Mobile App Showdown at CES 2013, and for good reason.
