Laptop for Mining Engineering Degree

[ConnorSt]

My brother is going to University of Kentucky next year for mining engineering and he needs a laptop. He wants to get the Dell g7 15 (http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/new-dell-g7-15-gaming/spd/g-series-15-7588-laptop) but I don’t know if it’s a little over powered. I know he wants to do some gaming and that this laptop would work great, but my parents just aren’t ready to throw $1000 into a laptop without knowing it’s a good deal. (It’s his money btw)

[Guest DeWat4]

Exactly which configuration is he looking at?

[Wh0_Am_1]

50 minutes ago, ConnorSt said:

My brother is going to University of Kentucky next year for mining engineering and he needs a laptop. He wants to get the Dell g7 15 (http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/new-dell-g7-15-gaming/spd/g-series-15-7588-laptop) but I don’t know if it’s a little over powered. I know he wants to do some gaming and that this laptop would work great, but my parents just aren’t ready to throw $1000 into a laptop without knowing it’s a good deal. (It’s his money btw)

If you are going to get one of those get the one with the 1060 6gb for $930

[ConnorSt]

18 minutes ago, DeWat4 said:

Exactly which configuration is he looking at?

The $929 with the core i7-8750H, 256 ssd, GTX 1060 6gb, 8gb ram. 

[Guest DeWat4]

7 minutes ago, ConnorSt said:

The $929 with the core i7-8750H, 256 ssd, GTX 1060 6gb, 8gb ram. 

I would get more RAM-probably around 16 gigabytes of total RAM will be enough- and I would definitely get more storage. It will be much cheaper to buy the RAM and the storage off of Amazon and install it yourself.

[genexis_x]

40 minutes ago, ConnorSt said:

The $929 with the core i7-8750H, 256 ssd, GTX 1060 6gb, 8gb ram. 

Sweet deal. Go for it. With TB3 and powerful 8750H means that it's future proof. You may want to add some RAM