<p>Dell Studio 1550</p>
<p>CPU: i3 350M @ 2.27 GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon HD Mobility 5470
RAM: 8GB DDR3 667 MHz (I know, really slow)</p>
<p>I bought this thing back in 2010, and it has served its purpose as well as I could as of it. I'm hoping to go to NCSU for Comp. Science. I'm also planning on building a more beefy desktop for use in the dorm. Will this laptop work for Comp. Science?</p>
<p>bumpity bump</p>
<p>Probably yes</p>
<p>that i3 is quite meh, especially since there have been two new generations since its release. </p>
<p>You might want to get a new laptop. However, if you are building a beefy desktop, then this would probably be fine, though you may as well get a smaller and lighter laptop companion. </p>
<p>TBH, just buy a powerful laptop and skip on a desktop.</p>
<p>GPU doesn’t matter much unless you’re doing HPC in which the department usually has computers… I would try for at least a second gen i5. GPU isn’t very important by the way.</p>