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Hi, I am a college student and am fairly tight on my budget. I want a laptop for programming, and running simulations. I won't be using it for gaming at all. Could someone please help me with what features should I look for, especially what processor and ram. Also should I buy a laptop with comparitively high resolution OLED display but slightly downgraded processor or vice versa, personally I know OLED won't give me much benefits but I still prefer it as I just hate blacks on all IPS panels. There aren't many ddr5 laptops in my budget, and all of them cuts back on processor for that, so will it be worth investing in it? I personally was thinking to go with an Asus Vivobook K15 with Ryzen 7 octa core amd R7-5700u.

Thank you to any and all of you in advance for your sugestions. Forgive me if this isn't the right place to make this post, I am using LTT forms for the first time.

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50 minutes ago, king_of_the_gods said:

Hi, I am a college student and am fairly tight on my budget. I want a laptop for programming, and running simulations. I won't be using it for gaming at all. Could someone please help me with what features should I look for, especially what processor and ram. Also should I buy a laptop with comparitively high resolution OLED display but slightly downgraded processor or vice versa, personally I know OLED won't give me much benefits but I still prefer it as I just hate blacks on all IPS panels. There aren't many ddr5 laptops in my budget, and all of them cuts back on processor for that, so will it be worth investing in it? I personally was thinking to go with an Asus Vivobook K15 with Ryzen 7 octa core amd R7-5700u.

Thank you to any and all of you in advance for your sugestions. Forgive me if this isn't the right place to make this post, I am using LTT forms for the first time.

try the hp envy 15 with the ryzen 7 6000 chips

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