Laptops in university

[Jurrunio]

Just interested, is what I see in mine inline with other universities? Take into account that I'm an engineering student, so Macbooks dont rule here (no Solidworks for MacOS, they need to get Windows VM). Gaming laptops take up about 60% of total number of laptops.

 

Let's first talk about laptops with dedicated graphics powerful enough to do a bit of gaming. 3/4 of them are from Asus, with MSI's at about 20%. I have never seen anything from Gigabyte (or Aorus), Razer, Lenovo, Clevo or Sager. I can only count 3 in total for HP and Dell....

 

As for those that cant game (because it's overall slow like mine, or with Intel  graphics), half of them are Macs, the rest are the common names, Dell HP IBM (yup, a couple of Thinkpads here) and Toshiba, nothing surprising.

[AntiTrust]

1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

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at my uni I'd say its about 1/3 macbooks, 1/3 gaming laptops (especially asus) 1/3 'other' like business grade laptops or best buy 400$ specials 

 

as a side note, I love it when I see people with cool gaming laptops. Its like.. this guy gets it. 

[genexis_x]

Hmm every uni is different so you might have different observation result

[Justin_]

Id say that in the CompSci class at my university about 1/2 of the laptops are Macs, and of the remaining 50% about 2/3 are gaming computers of some sort (some new, some many years old, but with actual GPUs in them) and about 1/3 business/bestbuy special

[Unimaginative Name]

It depends on what engineering discipline. I'm a computer science & engineering student with an electrical engineering dual major. There are a lot of Macbooks, especially in the computer science sphere. My university has upwards of 20 computer labs in the engineering department alone, all with software necessary for school work and none more than 3 years old. I think about 10% of people have a gaming laptop/desktop and a surface of some kind for bringing to class. 20% Macbook. 40% of people have $400-$500 mainstream laptops. Then I'd say the other 30% is split between gaming/workstation laptops that they drag to class or $1500-$2000 business laptops. With 4,000 engineering students, this is a wild guess. 

[comicsansms]

With uni for me, the people who I work with have macbook airs, or older macbook pros, I have an elitebook 8470p, a few have gaming laptops (gigabyte, razor), and one asus ultrabook, and one Dell Precision

 

The group of people I am with, are probably going into BIS, or IT (and not computer science), so don't need powerful laptops. I'll go into computer science, I'll decided if I need to upgrade later (I have already worked out what I am getting if I upgrade, it's just the matter of if I need to upgrade).