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Again, wayyyyy to overpowered and overpriced for his use case. Cmon dudes
Recommend me a Laptop
- Thread starter Suresh Dananjaya
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MoonStarz
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If you want a laptop just for studies this one might be the best one for you HP Pavilion Laptop 15z most of the programs you use will use the CPU and this one with 12 threads should do it fine and is a reasonable price, you don't need an i7 an i5 will 11th gen or 10 will do more than perfect.
LuckyNow
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my choice!
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Get a macbook air IMO, best for your use case and is in budget. Or get an old macbook, purchased after 2020. These things don;t go old even after 5 years. Mine are working really really great.
ExperimentalSEO
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Unless you are getting into arm development, I'd recommend a refurbished Lenovo T series laptop.
Titus Lotuss
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Asus laptops are pretty dependable.
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My advice is spend more. Since your productivity will be faster, you'll make the money back. I got a 1.7k laptop 2 years back, which proved to be a major performance improvement to my previous 1k laptop and even compared to 1.4k desktop. Works like a charm, I would increase budget if you could
As per college, a waste of money if you ask me, as I am doing IM without even having a highschool degree
As per college, a waste of money if you ask me, as I am doing IM without even having a highschool degree
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A good Linux based laptop will do the job.
BTW why are you so eager to waste your years in pursuing a degree? It's no good unless you want to go for 5 to 7 slavery in some tech firm (did you check how they're firing people recently due to the recession?) or with the government. I wish I could understand this right after my 12th standard. I would have been way more richer and avoid wasting the golden 4-5 years. Did you know that if you have got the skills, you can contact top decision makers of companies and get job without any degree? The point is - it's not worth it IMO. You'll thank me later after years. Rest, it's your thing.
BTW why are you so eager to waste your years in pursuing a degree? It's no good unless you want to go for 5 to 7 slavery in some tech firm (did you check how they're firing people recently due to the recession?) or with the government. I wish I could understand this right after my 12th standard. I would have been way more richer and avoid wasting the golden 4-5 years. Did you know that if you have got the skills, you can contact top decision makers of companies and get job without any degree? The point is - it's not worth it IMO. You'll thank me later after years. Rest, it's your thing.
blackengine
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ensure the ram >= 16gb and storage >=2t, proccessor i5 should be fine
0xxi3
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@Suresh Dananjaya I strongly DON'T recommend getting a Macbook on M1, or any M* processor as that would put you on an ARM architecture which will be unlike x86-based architectures that you'll be studying. You will face immense issues if you're ever to attempt to install a *nix OS on your latest fancy Macbook with dual-boot and the alternative is to struggle with a lagging VM which isn't fun either.
Get a good machine that comes with Windows (more on that later), a Thinkpad is a good choice, it's beloved by professionals for a good reason. Can't afford a new one? Get a pre-owned one (with SSD). Assuming that not all of your lectures are going to be computer science related you might encounter the need for using legacy programs that run only on Windows but you'll aslo need to install a *nix system as that will come in handy for your programming and OS lectures.
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Wait, what? No! As for Linux, VMWare fusion works just fine (You can install ubuntu arm64 on it. Tested). As for the course itself, Linux is not necessary at all. Everything that is taught in a cs degree course can be run on windows and mac as well. No idea where you get these stats from lol. In fact, if you really wanted to dual boot Linux with mac, you could use Asahi Linux, but it's still beta stage so I don't recommend it at this moment (GPU acceleration still does not work. An alpha version will be out soon that makes the use of the GPUs, though.)
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0xxi3
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Running VirtualBox on a Macbook daily. It sucks. Depends on your tolerance, of course, but I can't take that. IMO, a dedicated machine is the way to go.
Not if you ask me. What good comes of a software engineer who has never used Linux? The guy will likely be studying UNIX-focused OS classes anyway because the CS field is biased towards *nix and running what everybody else is running will help.
If you really wanted, you could port Linux for M1 on your own and make it the way you want it. But why? Look, I can't disagree with you that you can manage everything running on an M1 Macbook but why would you make yourself jump through all of these hoops when you could get a machine that does everything you need from the get-go? OP asked for a machine because he's starting a software engineering degree and recommending him to get a Macbook that runs on a different architecture, will require him to deal with VMs or solve dual-booting incompatibilities is counter-productive.
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get macbook air m1
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Well, let’s agree to disagree. That’s fine. I have been a windows/linux user for a long time. I still do use linux heavily in my job, but as servers. I would prefer using mac as my desktop, as it has everything I need, and I don’t have to spend days scratching my head and fixing stuffs. Even the file structure is unix like (which is no surprise, as it was developed as an unix clone to begin with) which makes me comfortable. So, I get best of both linux and windows world..