College Laptop Help.

[SpencerKnight2020]

Is my laptop going to be enough for my Manufacturing Engineering Technology bachelors degree from BYU-Idaho that I am going to obtain? I tend to use excel, word, power point, heavy loads on chrome, and possibly some engineering applications/ programs. I also like to do a little casual gaming on occasion like cs go, fortnight, and min craft when I have the time to. Any body that could help point me in the right direction to a laptop that could handle all of these things for a reasonable price if mine cant be upgraded to handle it if it cant handle it in the first place?Also as a side not if anyone knows were I can get a hard case to put on the top or a sticker that would cover all the white in the top of my computer were the HP symbol is, that would be awesome!

I have a HP Pavilion Laptop 2020 and here are its specs:

•15.6" diagonal FHD IPS BrightView WLED-backlit touch screen (1920 x 1080)

•No DVD or CD Drive

•1 TB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD

•Full-size island-style backlit keyboard(Natural Silver)

•16 GB DDR4-2666 SDRAM (2x8GB)

•Intel® 802.11b/g/n/ac (2x2) Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® 5 Combo(MU-MIMO supported)

•Windows 10 Home 64 Plus

•HP Wide Vision HD Camera + Dual Mic (Ceramic White+Natural Silver)

•3-cell, 41 Wh Lithium-ion prismatic Battery

•Intel® Core™ i7-1065G7 (1.3 GHz, up to 3.9 GHz, 8 MB cache, 4 cores)+NVIDIA® GeForce® MX250 (4 GB)

[panzersharkcat]

What's your budget? I can say anything between a Dell Precison, HP Zbook, or ThinkPad P1, P52, P53, or P15.

[Enderman]

It will work fine.

Battery life won't be great though.

[SpencerKnight2020]

16 minutes ago, panzersharkcat said:

What's your budget? I can say anything between a Dell Precison, HP Zbook, or ThinkPad P1, P52, P53, or P15.

Well I don't think it would be wise for me to go in debt so I'd have to say that i would be buying this probably in 2 to 3 years if i can help it so I can save up my money to get a nicer and more expensive computer. but if I was allowed to return this computer because I just bought it, then I would have to say it would be about $1,700 to $2,200

[Biomecanoid]

You need to search the specs of your Engineering applications and see if you computer can handle them.

 

Your laptop has an i7 CPU, an Nvidia GPU and lots of RAM so it probably be OK but you should have asked before you bought it.