Which Laptop to buy for university?

[DudeWhatTheN]

I'm about to start Uni in four months and I've started looking for laptops: I'd like for it to handle coding softwares (Jetbrains Suite mostly), Light gaming and occasional game dev softwares (Mostly Unity, I rarely use UE5)

My best bet right now is the HP Spectre X360 16' 2024, It has decent specs and it's on sale at 1600 euros right now. Do you have any suggestions?

[emosun]

1 hour ago, DudeWhatTheN said:

HP Spectre X360 16' 2024

it seems overpriced for a having a bunch of features you didn't list. Was there other features you needed that you didn't outline because you could pretty much get away with a machine half the price of that one.

[Timme]

Get yourself a ThinkPad P14 - light, super durable, fast, and the red dot. Intel or AMD, whatever. For the change, get a dock and a used GPU. Not that you'll get much time to use it. 
SPECTRE is cool and all, but it's a 16"2 kg+ plastic plate that would drain your excitement with every pull-out/pull-in on the go. And those hinges don't spell - "abuse me".`
Yoga's are cool too.

[KidKid]

2 hours ago, DudeWhatTheN said:

I'm about to start Uni in four months and I've started looking for laptops: I'd like for it to handle coding softwares (Jetbrains Suite mostly), Light gaming and occasional game dev softwares (Mostly Unity, I rarely use UE5)

My best bet right now is the HP Spectre X360 16' 2024, It has decent specs and it's on sale at 1600 euros right now. Do you have any suggestions?

HP and Dell and all those go to companies don't have the good deals that other companies like Asus or MSI or other companies have on Best Buy for some reason.

[DudeWhatTheN]

2 hours ago, emosun said:

it seems overpriced for a having a bunch of features you didn't list. Was there other features you needed that you didn't outline because you could pretty much get away with a machine half the price of that one.

Mostly the good build quality, 2.8K Oled touchscreen and the included pen.
It's got 32GB of DDR5 ram (I think 5600mhz), 1TB of storage and a 4050. Not the best GPU but for my future uses I think it will perform adequately.
I have a 10% coupon and that's why I was aiming at that one.

[DudeWhatTheN]

1 hour ago, KidKid said:

HP and Dell and all those go to companies don't have the good deals that other companies like Asus or MSI or other companies have on Best Buy for some reason.

I live in Europe and don't have access to best buy unfortunately 
Sometimes I see some really good deals on GPUs and wish I lived close enough to buy from one!

[emosun]

20 hours ago, DudeWhatTheN said:

Mostly the good build quality, 2.8K Oled touchscreen and the included pen.
It's got 32GB of DDR5 ram (I think 5600mhz), 1TB of storage and a 4050. Not the best GPU but for my future uses I think it will perform adequately.
I have a 10% coupon and that's why I was aiming at that one.

Ok so basically having an oled touchscreen and a pen is part of your requirements.

 

Keep in mind you're overpaying for those features and someone with a similar spec laptop will be paying like half the price and will be getting basically the same machine.

 

Also , focusing on build quality is a buzz term that manufacturers market to you. Not something you need.

 

I have laptops from 20 years ago made from entirely plastic that work fine. The laptop WILL become outmoded before build quality ever is the primary issue.

 

Ask yourself this , would you use a decade old laptop instead of a new one? No. Probably not. Why? Because it's too slow / doesn't support modern software / doesn't hold a charge etc..... none of those were build  quality.