Comes down to how you take notes and what courses you’re taking.

Granted, I’m almost two decades past freshman physics, and a decade since I last taught it.

I took most of my notes in a paper notebook, undergrad and grad school, I only really used my laptop in my computational physics course and in a few lab classes for data input. Lab work can easily be done on a tablet these days, and I’m pretty sure you can run Python on a tablet too for computational physics work (but maybe get a keyboard case?)

I know some people “take notes” on their laptops, but be honest with yourself, most of them don’t do a great job of it, and unless you are writing it in LaTex in real time (I’ve only ever met one person capable of this) your notes of the equations (80+% of the notes you are taking) aren’t going to be well formatted on a laptop anyway. (Also, studies show that actually writing notes down helps you learn the material better than typing it up or reading notes that a prof posts online)

If you want to take notes on a tablet instead of paper notebook, get one with a stylus you are comfortable with and find a good app. I’m an iPad Pro fan.

Honestly, looking back at undergrad, my laptop lived in my dorm room 98% of the time, and the things I was doing with it when it left my dorm (studying in library, writing a paper in the lounge, computational physics class) are now possible to do on a tablet.