Engineering laptop

[Bzdougie]

Looking for a budget laptop for engineering school. Would the Dell Inspiron 7567 gaming laptop be a suitable device and powerful enough for engineering programs like autocad and matlab.

 

If you could suggest a better laptop im wanting a 15 in display with quad core processor. Not too huge and chunky with decent battery life. Also like to have a non gamer looking laptop. Willing to spend around $1200 give or take. Thanks in advance!

[MrFoxyCracker]

My personal suggestion is to look around at 2015-2016 gaming laptops on Ebay, just for price's sake. Otherwise, that seems like a fairly solid laptop for the price.

[The Sloth]

what discipline? 

[Shog]

Depending on what engineering, your schools resources, and what you're plans are you might also want to double check and see if the laptop you're getting has expandable ram. 

[Bzdougie]

7 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

what discipline? 

Electrical 

[Bzdougie]

7 minutes ago, Shog said:

Depending on what engineering, your schools resources, and what you're plans are you might also want to double check and see if the laptop you're getting has expandable ram. 

Two ram slots up to 32 GB

[The Sloth]

9 minutes ago, Bzdougie said:

Electrical 

avoid gaming laptops, you are going into engineering, focus on school. 

- xps 15( on sale or if you can spend a bit more) 

- dell Inspiron 7000( budget) 

- any Thinkpad with 940mx or better 

[Bzdougie]

2 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

avoid gaming laptops, you are going into engineering, focus on school. 

- xps 15 

- dell Inspiron 7000( budget) 

- any Thinkpad with 940mx or better 

I only chose that laptop strictly for specs. Will a 940mx be enough for what I'm going to do?

[The Sloth]

Just now, Bzdougie said:

I only chose that laptop strictly for specs. Will a 940mx be enough for what I'm going to do?

more than enough, i have a bachelor's in electrical engineering and masters in mechanical engineering. 

[Bzdougie]

Just now, nerdslayer1 said:

more than enough, i have a bachelor's in electrical engineering and masters in mechanical engineering. 

So what laptop do you suggest?

[The Sloth]

Just now, Bzdougie said:

So what laptop do you suggest?

 dell Inspiron- good budget laptop with a 7700hq and 1050ti if you want some extra power, kinda big and heavy

xps 15- think light but a bit above your budget. 

 

[Bzdougie]

11 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

 dell Inspiron- good budget laptop with a 7700hq and 1050ti if you want some extra power, kinda big and heavy

xps 15- think light but a bit above your budget. 

 

Are think pads good devices?

[The Sloth]

8 minutes ago, Bzdougie said:

Are think pads good devices?

yup, thay are the best all around productivity laptop with excellent build quality, i went through university with a used Thinkpad. 

[Bzdougie]

6 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

yup, thay are the best all around productivity laptop with excellent build quality, i went through university with a used Thinkpad. 

Where did you graduate if I may ask?

[The Sloth]

3 minutes ago, Bzdougie said:

Where did you graduate if I may ask?

 2015 was my final year

[Shog]

 

3 hours ago, Bzdougie said:

Where did you graduate if I may ask?

He said he has a masters in electrical, not a minor in English