Laptops for Computer Science Student

[Tom Haywood]

Hi looking for a good gaming computer that will be best to use at Uni. I am doing Computer Science so will need to normal stuff on it (visualization) and enough battery life. Would like something with the price around £700. Any questions just ask.

[Ningols]

This one should be good

[Colexd]

^^excellent battery life

[Teddy07]

You basically want a very good battery life in the first place. @Ningols1598I like that one! I just check for fun and it is 1000-1400 € in my country  

[ErrystioT]

This looks very attractive http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/medion-p6661-15-6-gaming-laptop-black-10160693-pdt.html

 

Although if you can scale your budget to about £1k ish, this http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/dell-inspiron-15-7000-15-6-gaming-laptop-black-10157222-pdt.html

is quite a compelling option. GTX 1050 Ti and 16GB RAM with 128GB SSD & 1TB HDD. It has beefy 74Wh battery as well, which should be good for lightweight tasks

[Stagea]

11 hours ago, Tom Haywood said:

Hi looking for a good gaming computer that will be best to use at Uni. I am doing Computer Science so will need to normal stuff on it (visualization) and enough battery life. Would like something with the price around £700. Any questions just ask.

Not the best screen or battery life, but it should offer good performance for your needs:

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/asus-15.6-inch-ci5-7300hq-8gb-1tb-128gb-ssd-nvidia-gt1050-4gb-dvdrw-fhd-w-fx553vd-dm627t/version.asp

 

[genexis_x]

Dell 7567

5 hours ago, Stagea said:

Not the best screen or battery life, but it should offer good performance for your needs:

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/asus-15.6-inch-ci5-7300hq-8gb-1tb-128gb-ssd-nvidia-gt1050-4gb-dvdrw-fhd-w-fx553vd-dm627t/version.asp

Asus gaming laptops are mediocre, moreover it's from FX series (even GL series have many issues)

[Stagea]

12 hours ago, ZM Fong said:

Dell 7567

Asus gaming laptops are mediocre, moreover it's from FX series (even GL series have many issues)

It's not marketed as a gaming laptop, but as a multimedia laptop. I agree that Asus is not best in class (especially when it comes to software/driver support), but it's the closest to his price point with a current gen HQ processor and GPU.

[genexis_x]

5 minutes ago, Stagea said:

It's not marketed as a gaming laptop, but as a multimedia laptop. I agree that Asus is not best in class (especially when it comes to software/driver support), but it's the closest to his price point with a current gen HQ processor and GPU.

The problem is, Asus laptops especially with powerful hardware inside are usually have a mediocre design, FX series is just like MSI GL series

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