My son is far more intelligent than I am and very into engineering and electrical things and all kinds of things I know nothing about. He will be attending engineering camp this summer.

I am a Mac user. Everything I do is online and I don't need access to anything really outside that.

Any recommendations? While he is very intelligent, he is still a boy so I'm not necessarily looking to go all out and spend a ton of money on something I foresee him losing or dropping but I do want him to have what he needs.

This kid will likely be choosing my future nursing home so I need to support him where I can.

Get him a Mac, and you'll have free tech support for life.

Just get him a Macbook Neo

Any newish junker PC, throw in a good Samsung EVO SSD and ask him what Linux Distro he wants.

Rocky, Alma, Mint (has both Ubuntu and Debian), lots of choices out there.

Macbook Neo is the easy answer if he's not in college yet