<p>So which laptop would you guys recommend for college? Planning to be a chemical engineering major. Hope its a decent one that provides me with many options, and will last me for the 4 years in college, maybe longer?</p>
<p>Not an Apple, unless you want to be the laughing stock of the entire science/engineering department.</p>
<p>I’ve had a Sony VAIO for two years now and it’s shown zero signs of wear and tear. I run Linux on it, but it ran Windows 7 pretty well, and mine is the model with only the Dual Core processor, now they’ve got i5’s and i7’s…</p>
<p>Consistently the top windows laptop seems to be Lenova.</p>
<p>I love my Dell XPS 15. $900 Came with 1080p display, hd webcam, great speakers w/ subwoofer, backlit keyboard, and it’s fast enough to handle anything you’ll need it for.</p>
<p>Thanks guys! I’ll check those out.</p>
<p>HP Envy 14 (wait for the refresh coming soon), Dell XPS 15, or, if you’re a gamer, check out the Dell/Alienware m14x.</p>
<p>My younger son just purchased a Dell Vostro 3450 Laptop. It was about $1,000.</p>
<p>@hadsed: What is your reason for disliking? My school is a apple school, and having previously used a pc, I find the apple more interesting. (my school loans macs, but after this I might get a pc for college because macs are so expensive), but I was just wondering why you think that.</p>
<p>In my opinion macs are overpriced and there’s not as much freedom with customizing. I got my pc for $900 and a similarly speced mac would be about $1800. Not to mention mine has a lot of features macs do not have yet, so it is better in almost everyway. Mine also gets about 8 hours of battery life with the backlit keyboard off and the brightness turned down, so the mac doesn’t even have better battery life anymore.</p>
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<p>Honestly, you’re the only one who cares what someone else is using. You can have your own preferences, but good luck having any sort of life without any tolerance for the people different than you.</p>
<p>Here is the link of my response to a similar question earlier.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12520607-post6.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12520607-post6.html</a></p>
<p>I honestly think we need to come up with a good summary of what LAPTOP an engineering student should get.</p>
<p>Summary:
Get whatever fits you. Whatever your preferences are. Apple, PC, or even an iPad!</p>
<p>I personally don’t use Apple (although I dont like it…)</p>
<p>you should get a laptop with at least a i3 chip. Get at least 4gigs of ram and a 100gig - 300gig hard drive does not have to be solid state. As the debate between Apple or Windows i would go with window, it has less compatibility issue with the majority of the software you will be using ie(autocad, mathlab, mathmatica). Screen size, you probably will have to do some programing so i say nothing smaller then 15"". You really do not need a blu ray drive unless you are going to watching movies on this laptop or using it to connect with a HDTV. Also you really do not need a high end graphics card unless you want to do some computer gaming.</p>