Engineering laptop requirement

College Majors Engineering Majors
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So I’m going to be majoring in Electrical Engineering @UCR and obviously I am going to need a laptop for some of my classes and i wanted help in deciding whether i should buy a new laptop or use the one of have now. the laptop i have now is this one
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjZpZq2qNLUAhVeHGMKHfTbApUQFgg1MAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnet.com%2Fproducts%2Fhp-star-wars-special-edition-notebook%2F&usg=AFQjCNF27nB84MOEEuWfo5BUILpe1NEQcg

i wanted to see if this one was good to go for what I woudl need to do in my classes and if not can I get some recommendations as to what laptop I should get.

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Have you seen these recommendations for the minimum configuration?
http://student.engr.ucr.edu/laptop.html

There’s an email address on that page that you could contact and ask about your laptop.

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Okay so checked out the minimum configuration and my laptop meet all of them but the ram size, the minimum is 8gb ram, mine has a 6gb ram. would that make a huge difference?