Laptop for Computer Science

[barisaxyman]

I want to get a laptop for Computer Science, any recommendations.  

[Flameytail]

i have a yoga

its pretty good it folds with a toutchscreen

not backlit definitly not a gaming laptop but ips and power jack doubles as a usb. sd card reader too

im writing on it now

 

8/10

cant game on it and occasionally wierd battery 20% 6% 0% things

[Contreramanjaro]

I'd say mostly make sure it has a keyboard you like since you'll be typing a whole lot. Also, I think home and end keys are nice to have for coding.

 

Decent battery life can be a good idea for group projects as well.

[Flameytail]

4 minutes ago, Flameytail said:

i have a yoga

its pretty good it folds with a toutchscreen

not backlit definitly not a gaming laptop but ips and power jack doubles as a usb. sd card reader too

im writing on it now

 

8/10

cant game on it and occasionally wierd battery 20% 6% 0% things

I forgot to say I turbo'ed it so that's why

[Hotseff]

Maybe a LG Gram could work depends on what your doing but for $1000 right now you can buy the touch screen one with an I5, 8GB of Ram, and a 256 GB SSD

[laminutederire]

10 hours ago, barisaxyman said:

I want to get a laptop for Computer Science, any recommendations.  

It depends on what you are going to study there more specifically and what infrastructure they have.

Personally with my 4 nearly 5 years old laptop, with a samdy bridge i5, i could manage to do everything since we have access to CPU and GPU clusters from the school super computer.

However I mainly work on my desktop because a) it's more powerful so debugging is faster, and you don't have to wait as much to see results or compile b) having two big screen is truly a game changer. So if you already have a desktop, I'd buy a decent laptop, maybe wait for oem to give more ryzen laptops, but keep some money to buy a new screen otherwise.

If you don't have a desktop, I'd still keep some money to hook the laptop on a larger and better screen.

[genexis_x]

11 hours ago, barisaxyman said:

I want to get a laptop for Computer Science, any recommendations.  

Budget? Requirements? Location?

[ErrystioT]

Budget? If you don't game or do any video/photo editing work, you can do easily with an ultrabook that's sub $800. Normally in that price range, it has an i5 (with 8th gen Kaby Lake-R available), 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD which should be really plenty for your Computer Science work, you also get the portability and battery life benefits too. I'm a Computer Science student myself and I use a 2-in-1 with those similar specs (with i5 4th gen tho) for all my uni purposes. If I need more power, I got a main laptop with quad-core 3rd gen i7-3630QM and GT 750M SLI GPU (which is 4 years old and counting but still highly capable for my tasks and even some light gaming).

 

I can't give any specific models yet unless you tell us your budget and your constraints (CPU power, portability, battery life, etc). Cuz generally, a gaming laptop or an ultrabook can easily achieve what you need to do.