A laptop for an incoming engineering student?
Hi, I'm going to be a freshman in college studying engineering this fall and I'm looking for some guidance as to what laptop to buy :)
I was planning to buy a Macbook Pro until I found out that Macs don't support programs like AutoCAD unless I buy Windows for my MAC...so contained by total this would cost me about $2000 and that's a bit out of my price range :/
Otherwise i be thinking of getting a 14" Sony Vaio <approx. $700> with an i5 processor, 4 GB of memory, and I believe a 500GB harddrive...but does anyone know if this is a good computer / if the graphics are righteous enough for drafting programs?
And the last remedy (unless anyone has better choices :) ) is this 15.6" HP laptop <approx. $830> with 6 GB of memory, a 640 GB harddrive, and it uses the AMD Phenom II for a processor. And supposedly the graphics are alot better on this computer as anti the Vaio.
So if anyone has any ideas or opinion, please let me know! Thanks :)
Answers:
I would stick away from Mac if i was you! If you compare the specifications of Mac's compared to the specifications of window laptops, you will see that windows laptops will give you alot more crash for you buck.
I would go for the Sony Vaio personally. The Core i5's are great processors, and 4GB memory is sufficient, as economically as a 500GB hard drive. It will also have plenty good-enough graphics for AutoCAD (I've run AutoCAD on a really poor spec'd laptop and it still worked quite well!)
Hope i help a little!
I just bought like peas in a pod sony u are talking about. ive have it for a week and the programs i use that are a little complicated work fast and i would reccomend the sony laptop. u should configure it while u charge it to customize it and include any programs or accesories u may need. it comes with polite graphics to handle anything u may be using. Either of those should be able to pedal beefy engineering programs pretty well. I know from experience that the i5 is good, and 4 to 6 GB of RAM is fine.
Here is another choice for you: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…
I think that both of those laptops are really good. I would walk with the Sony Vaio though.
Also, check out Asus laptops, they are pretty good.
Good luck and hope I help!
Related Questions:
I was planning to buy a Macbook Pro until I found out that Macs don't support programs like AutoCAD unless I buy Windows for my MAC...so contained by total this would cost me about $2000 and that's a bit out of my price range :/
Otherwise i be thinking of getting a 14" Sony Vaio <approx. $700> with an i5 processor, 4 GB of memory, and I believe a 500GB harddrive...but does anyone know if this is a good computer / if the graphics are righteous enough for drafting programs?
And the last remedy (unless anyone has better choices :) ) is this 15.6" HP laptop <approx. $830> with 6 GB of memory, a 640 GB harddrive, and it uses the AMD Phenom II for a processor. And supposedly the graphics are alot better on this computer as anti the Vaio.
So if anyone has any ideas or opinion, please let me know! Thanks :)
Answers:
I would stick away from Mac if i was you! If you compare the specifications of Mac's compared to the specifications of window laptops, you will see that windows laptops will give you alot more crash for you buck.
I would go for the Sony Vaio personally. The Core i5's are great processors, and 4GB memory is sufficient, as economically as a 500GB hard drive. It will also have plenty good-enough graphics for AutoCAD (I've run AutoCAD on a really poor spec'd laptop and it still worked quite well!)
Hope i help a little!
I just bought like peas in a pod sony u are talking about. ive have it for a week and the programs i use that are a little complicated work fast and i would reccomend the sony laptop. u should configure it while u charge it to customize it and include any programs or accesories u may need. it comes with polite graphics to handle anything u may be using. Either of those should be able to pedal beefy engineering programs pretty well. I know from experience that the i5 is good, and 4 to 6 GB of RAM is fine.
Here is another choice for you: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…
I think that both of those laptops are really good. I would walk with the Sony Vaio though.
Also, check out Asus laptops, they are pretty good.
Good luck and hope I help!
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