I have a bunch of 2in1s for my parents and my own needs: MSI 13 Modern; Asus X13 Flow, Asus 2022 X16 Flow, Asus 2023 X16 Flow now.

For the smaller laptops :

Heat issues - small package : going to over heat while gaming, hard to impossible to find a dedicated GPU equipped model.

Battery life - smaller chassis - hard to find large battery capacities

Storage issues - smaller then usual M.2 drives required. The various Lenovo models will need M2.2242 drives which are slightly more common but trying to find a 4TB M.2 2230 drive is impossible or super overpriced.

Soldered RAM issues - The smaller laptops would have soldered RAM on it, if you can live with what issued then good for you but if you were trying to do engineering work forget it or needed to pay much extra for 32GB.

Windows 10 dies in 2025 with continual support and newer hardware has been pushing for Windows 11 only drivers.

Depends on the laptop. Open the bottom up and see if your have open m.2 slots if not then if you have a m.2 slot. If you do then go with a replacement ssd or supplementary storage. Or do some research to see what ssd your laptop can take. If you cannot find a ssd or space then I would go for a replacement laptop.

Only if the Iphone charger is a USB-C PD rated charger.

Talk to your school and get a hardware requirements list. Also see about student discounts and such. Talk to professors about what they use. If its a all PC school for engineering your idea of using an Apple product may not fly well. You may also need to factor in Autocad, Solidworks, and whatever programs required for your major. Get the list of the program hardware requirements and go thru sellers and using their filter mode to flag what you need.

Front facing camera - are you asking for a web cam facing the user or needing something to record the professor and the lecture ?

General benchmark for your laptops are going to be your own work. We can suggest review sites such as Notebookcheck.net, ultrabookreviews.com.

Not without better cooling systems. Intel and AMD CPUs for higher performance can crank out performance until they hit the thermal limits.

You can do things such as Eluktronics where they have water cooling to dump the heat out faster then heat can be generated.

Batteries are going to be an inverse relationship with performance. The better the CPU the worst the battery life is going to be.

If you are running just generic stuff then a Mac will meet your needs. If you need to run games / Windows only applications then Windows laptops and desktops will meet your needs.

Battery life is going to be a struggle on Windows based machines unfortunately. But with Windows machines not everything is soldered onto the motherboard as Apple does (RAM, storage, wifi chip).

2in1s and detachables aren’t going to be able stuff the largest possible batteries inside due to trying to be also ultralight.

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Since performance isn’t a big thing, you should be able to getaway with using this thing.

Next step ups in sizes are the 13" laptops and 14" laptops. But get the models with 16-32GB RAM if you can.

The Framework 16 has a 7840HS or 7940HS these are 35W to 54W TDP cpus. The battery is 85Whr.

Doing the math a minimum you get 1.57 to 2.57 hours using the TDP math. But maximum battery life will be a factor of little power the CPUs can run, (approx 5W) and the various items for the laptop systems, display bightness, , fans, M.2 drives, RAM. (approximately 5W to 10W). Crank up the power savings, reduce the brightness, turn off the Wifi / BT, and turn off not necessary programs.

Using that math you can probably get a maximum of 8.5 hours.

I think i shall pass on any WD based SSD for a while until the hardware faulted SSDs work themselves out of the market.

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Dewalt usb c PD kit. Provides 100w output power for devices. Uses modular tool batteries as the power source.

Imuto 160w usb c PD power bank. I use this on planes for keeping the phones charged.

Figure out what you need to do with the laptop at school. For some items a Mac maybe helpful with the whole intergrated IOS setup but will hurt your wallet. They currently have the best battery life on laptops while Windows can certainly get more performance out and have wider software usages.

Physical replacement of the screen. But talk to your school’s IT department first, they may do the replacements themselves or subcontract it out.

Its an intergrated GPU, resources are shared with your system memory and there’s a limit of how much RAM it can access. You cannot use to play hardcore games.

Really depends on the motherboard settings for the CPU. Intel’s defaults are 125W to 253W of power to remove but some manufactureres have set the power limits to unlimited so that cooling is the only thing keeping the CPU below thermal throttling limits.

The 12600KF has a power default settings of 125W to 150W as comparison numbers.

You would want another radiator help dump the extra 100W of heat otherwise its high cooling temperatures. Other items are to think about your tubing materials. Some get soft at 60C.

Steam has the trial function for its game. Can’t exceed purchase by 14 days or 2 hrs playtime.

I will say it will not work but you can try to see if it works or not.

IS this a BIOS option or a Framework software program thing?