<p>So my parents are thinking about buying me a laptop for Christmas and they found one. I was just wondering if colleges ask for specific laptops or do they leave that up to you?</p>
<p>Some departments may have certain minimum specifications that they recommend for computers (usually this is engineering or computer science departments, but any program that may require a certain amount of computing power could have this). Check out your school and department websites to see if they recommend anything. In general, though, they usually don’t specify specific laptops or anything. If all you’re going to be doing is word processing, internet browsing, etc, pretty much any (modern) laptop will suit you just fine.</p>