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Loving my windows 11 😋

Loving my windows 11 😋

Loving my windows 11 😋

Loving my windows 11 😋

Potentially. You can try and run crystal disk info to see if anything comes up.

You might need to run a scrub program. Autodesk points to a microsoft fixit for installers.
 
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/customer-service/download-install/remove-products/remove-windows-products
 
 
You can also just keep autocad programs installed on your PC, they won't stomp on each other unless you install them with different languages from each other.
 

it sounds like a bad led sector (could be a bad ribbon connection it that section). it will only get worse....id warranty it

Going to contact the website right now. My mom will be mad tho ? Thanks for the help!

Yeah I would for sure return it and get another one. It may be foreshadowing worse issues as time goes on.
 
I have 2 JBL Flip 4's and they are great speakers. I'm sure it is just a problem with your particular unit.

I don't think there will be any way to fix the issue then, but if it only does it while changing the volume IMO that's something that wouldn't be worth the hassle of returning it if it's going to be a huge pain in the ass.

I have the The Razer Blade 2018 edition and it has been by a very long way my best laptop. For very long term and as a primary driver, I would recommend looking to get the maximum amount of storage space though. Blades don't come with a whole lot, so you will want to invest in a good external HDD. 

Yeah, about 5 to 6 hours when just using word, etc, but that is the full blade, which is designed to fulfil a different role to the Stealth. I've heard they can get around 8 hours, but as i haven't got one to test myself, don't take my word as gospel. 
 
 

Razer and longevity don't come together

The battery might seem impresive at first...

As time passes the battery will get worse...

Then I dont think a component will fail but I would not swear about it.Also since the razer products are more expensive than the same category competition products they are build better built devices.If you want to check something else tho, Lenovo has some new ultrabooks that are good too. You can take a look at these too!

Try the Lenovo Thinkpad L3 series
In your budget and your requirements as well

I agree. But in my experience it can be a little bit more difficult to use a mac for some courses. For example if you have a mac-specific problem and the teacher only knows windows.
But this shouldn't happen regularly.

Honestly with my experience with college so far, I don't think it really matters. You will (likely) find people that use both on your academic journey, and your introduction courses shouldn't be operating system or even IDE bound (and definitely shouldn't be). The "System Programming" profession sounds like something that will use Linux at some point but that's purely speculation. If you want to be safe pick up a windows laptop, but really pick up what your comfortable with. Don't get a Macbook because it's trendy or whatever.

That's why I strongly recommend getting used business laptops - they're more reliable and well built than cheap new laptops. I'm a fan of Lenovo Thinkpads but there are plenty of good options. Realistically for a high school course you could probably get away with using a potato - a used thinkpad with a core i5, 8gb of ram and an ssd would be plenty and you can usually find that sort of thing for 200-300$. Make sure you get an IPS screen (or factor in the extra 80-90$ to buy one and replace it yourself, it's really easy on thinkpads).
Systems programming usually refers to C/C++/C#/Java, all of them are platform agnostic except C# which requires Windows for some features. You can probably do it in a virtual machine or in bootcamp, that would sort of defeat the purpose of getting a mac though if that's what you decide to go with. If I were you I'd look around for some used options, wait for the class to start and buy whatever you need when you're finally told what you're going to be doing.

If you're asking this question then the answer is: Mac will do no good for you.
 
Want a safe bet? Get a Winderp... sorry... Windows laptop that can run a VM with Linux on it and you'll be good to go.
 
You'll have to test the programs you'll be making on the final environment (don't know if it makes sense, english is not my first language but whatever).
 
If you write an application in C (good old C, they'll probably teach it in this program) you'll have to compile it to the architecture you'll use. Since most users go with Windows you might as well do the same. Or you can ressearch about Linux and enter the penguin side and run a VM for Windows testing.
 
Since W10 license is paid the first option might be the best, if you get to buy a laptop with a license strapped in.

Can confirm this as well. I don't own a Mac but I've used them for programming on a occasion that the feature set is not there compared to Windows.

Visual Studio for Mac is not remotely similar to Visual Studio (on Windows). Visual Studio for Mac is a re-brand of Xamarin Studio for Mac, and doesn't support a lot of the features/plug-ins that Visual Studio (on Windows) does.
 
Source: Have a 2019 MBP + 2019 XPS 15, am a Software Engineer, use Visual Studio (on Windows) all day every day.

Are you going to be on a programming course? 
If so it's most likely that they're going to be using windows, you can use a Mac but you may find yourself looking into windows VMs a lot to account for the lesser well known programs they'll probably use.
If going to go into web development you may struggle to test on IE (some legacy applications require this)
Pre SQL Server 2017 would need a VM
If you're going to be developing in C# with visual studio then yes you can run visual studio but you'll be limited to using .NET core or Mono I believe.
If the course uses the standard .NET framework you may be in trouble.

I mean... I paid for it in my tuition (And probably overpaid for it,) they just provided a Macbook Pro and the course books in the tuition cost. (Which is great because books are super expensive.)