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I need an laptop for someone who starts learning architecture on an university

I’m from Germany and don’t have a glue which programmes they are going to use and I also don’t know much about laptops. Budget would be around 1,600.00€. I just put this on here to find out if someone knows something beforehand I need to learn more about laptops 🤝 (pls help I don’t want to)

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5 minutes ago, Mangohirn said:

I’m from Germany and don’t have a glue which programmes they are going to use and I also don’t know much about laptops. Budget would be around 1,600.00€. I just put this on here to find out if someone knows something beforehand I need to learn more about laptops 🤝 (pls help I don’t want to)

Most universities should have a recommendation for computer hardware that students should bring if they want to bring their own.  Some universities will actually supply these as part of the tuition, paid out in installments over the 4 years.  You should be able to find this information on the university website, or on some sort of student portal.

 

I would verify these details before trying to just 'pick something', as the specific school program will determine if you end up in a MacOS environment or a Windows one, and you really don't want to be showing up with the wrong one.

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It's likely, but not certain, that almost any laptop (with 16gb of ram or more) would be adequate. AutoCad for example will even run to some extent on crappy computers without a dedicated GPU.

In some cases there is specialised CAD software that prefers "quadro" over a regular graphics card, but this is usually only preference and not an absolute requirement.

 

Certainly, you might want something with a display resolution of at least 1080p for CAD applications, but that's pretty much every computer.

Here's a chatgpt conversation that might be helpful.

https://chat.openai.com/share/2f147dde-c99b-4da9-9d08-0c84bbbdae39
 

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