help me get a laptop for uni

[ZonG]

which laptop is good for Bsc computing my budget is 1400$ i really need help since i dont really have knowledge about laptops in general so please help me out 

[BiotechBen]

20 minutes ago, ZonG said:

which laptop is good for Bsc computing my budget is 1400$ i really need help since i dont really have knowledge about laptops in general so please help me out 

I got through my entire Biology degree with a Ryzen 3000 mobile chip and integrated graphics, none of the models/simulations we ran were particularly demanding since most of it was lab data number crunching in excel or programs from the mid 2000's that were still relavent and designed to run on a Pentium 4. 

Something in the Pavilion/Thinkpad/Inspiron range with a good quad core should do the majority of what you need it to without breaking a sweat. What is going to be really important for you is battery life since charging a laptop in a lecture hall is all but impossible. 

[_Omega_]

So if you dont need to run any heavy Programms id suggest getting something like a a surface, i got through my whole bachelors degree with a 2016 i5(M5) surface with only 128 GB internal storage (+256GB micro SD card). Skripts just dont take up much space, you can easily make "handwritten" notes in scripts wich is really nice and in contrast to an iPad (or other tablets) you can run specialized Programms as well... Like Matlab or latex. But i dont know what you are doing in you computing bachelors, for heavy simulations you might need more processing power.

[ZonG]

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[ZonG]

2 hours ago, BiotechBen said:

I got through my entire Biology degree with a Ryzen 3000 mobile chip and integrated graphics, none of the models/simulations we ran were particularly demanding since most of it was lab data number crunching in excel or programs from the mid 2000's that were still relavent and designed to run on a Pentium 4. 

Something in the Pavilion/Thinkpad/Inspiron range with a good quad core should do the majority of what you need it to without breaking a sweat. What is going to be really important for you is battery life since charging a laptop in a lecture hall is all but impossible. 

I will also do a bit of rendering stuff too so don't think those will work 

 

[ZonG]

2 hours ago, _Omega_ said:

So if you dont need to run any heavy Programms id suggest getting something like a a surface, i got through my whole bachelors degree with a 2016 i5(M5) surface with only 128 GB internal storage (+256GB micro SD card). Skripts just dont take up much space, you can easily make "handwritten" notes in scripts wich is really nice and in contrast to an iPad (or other tablets) you can run specialized Programms as well... Like Matlab or latex. But i dont know what you are doing in you computing bachelors, for heavy simulations you might need more processing power.

Should I post the courses?

 

[_Omega_]

35 minutes ago, ZonG said:

Should I post the courses?

 

you could do it but im a chemical engineer so i might not know the specific needs of your courses 

[ZonG]

38 minutes ago, _Omega_ said:

you could do it but im a chemical engineer so i might not know the specific needs of your courses 

Ohh oke then nevermind 

[_Omega_]

12 minutes ago, ZonG said:

Ohh oke then nevermind 

do you already have contact to any sort of organization of your university/College  with senior students from your course. Here in Germany ther is often someting like a "Fachschaft" where students are organized to help each other and new students. Maybe they can tell you which Programms you will need to use ant that way we might be able to figure out which system might be the best... There are for example some simulation tools that can take advantage of GPUs to an a dGPU might be helpfull  

[ZonG]

18 minutes ago, _Omega_ said:

do you already have contact to any sort of organization of your university/College  with senior students from your course. Here in Germany ther is often someting like a "Fachschaft" where students are organized to help each other and new students. Maybe they can tell you which Programms you will need to use ant that way we might be able to figure out which system might be the best... There are for example some simulation tools that can take advantage of GPUs to an a dGPU might be helpfull  

No sadly there is no one that I Know who is from that field and where I live the college doesn't help us in this matter it's all upto students

 

[BiotechBen]

6 hours ago, ZonG said:

Should I post the courses?

 

It would definitely be helpful

[ZonG]

57 minutes ago, BiotechBen said:

It would definitely be helpful

 

[BiotechBen]

2 minutes ago, ZonG said:

 

The vast majority of those are CPU tasks, something like a 12700H would likely work very well, if you come across like a 13600H/4050 laptop that should be plenty for any schoolwork you come across that isn't like running huge simulations in Solidworks.

[ZonG]

7 minutes ago, BiotechBen said:

The vast majority of those are CPU tasks, something like a 12700H would likely work very well, if you come across like a 13600H/4050 laptop that should be plenty for any schoolwork you come across that isn't like running huge simulations in Solidworks.

asus tuf a15 ryzen 7 7735hs rtx 4050 is this one good ?

 

[BiotechBen]

8 minutes ago, ZonG said:

asus tuf a15 ryzen 7 7735hs rtx 4050 is this one good ?

 

Yeah, should be fine, just remember to carry the charger and charge when you can (I have a hiking backpack so I fished the wall plug out through the top water pouch access spot and charged it while waiting for profs to arrive to class in the hallway)

[ZonG]

7 minutes ago, BiotechBen said:

Yeah, should be fine, just remember to carry the charger and charge when you can (I have a hiking backpack so I fished the wall plug out through the top water pouch access spot and charged it while waiting for profs to arrive to class in the hallway)

okkee thanks for the help man really appreciate it

[BiotechBen]

1 minute ago, ZonG said:

okkee thanks for the help man really appreciate it

Study hard, remember to pace yourself, and asking for help is not a weakness or making you a burden on anyone. College can be a lot of fun, do your best to make quality relationships.

[ZonG]

15 minutes ago, BiotechBen said:

Study hard, remember to pace yourself, and asking for help is not a weakness or making you a burden on anyone. College can be a lot of fun, do your best to make quality relationships.

oke man thank you  and thanks again for the advice 

[BiotechBen]

7 minutes ago, ZonG said:

oke man thank you  and thanks again for the advice 

Remember to mark as solved

[ZonG]

1 hour ago, BiotechBen said:

Remember to mark as solved

okee