Is my laptop good for computer sci/engineering major?

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<p>I plan to attend a calstate or (if lucky ) a UC.
I currently just bought a Dell XPS 15 l502x during March 2011.
Specs:</p>

<p>CPU- Intel Core i5 2410 2.3Ghz with Turbo Boost Tech up to 2.9 Ghz [Dual Core]
Grpahics - Nvidia GT 540M 2 GB with Optimus (yay)
6 GB of DDR3 ram
"640 GB" of Hard drive storage space (in reality it's 581 gb >>)
9 cell battery (awesome) with 720p HD Screen.</p>

<p>Battery Hours is about 8 hours w/o wifi connection and at battery save settings using microsoft word only with integrated graphics 1 gb enabled.</p>

<p>So is this computer good enough for Beginning and later on computer science for the whole college year?</p>

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<p>Absolutely,</p>

<p>Past that set up you want a tower</p>

<p>Hows the Optimus feature working out for you?
Happy? Glitches?</p>

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<p>thats awesome!</p>

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<p>It’s working nicely.</p>

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<p>I think that will be more than enough.</p>

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<p>Get the biggest baddest monitor you can afford - 22" is the minimum for my tired eyes -</p>