<p>Any laptop with a dedicated video card and an Intel i processor will do anything these days. The more cores the better for the processor.</p>
<p>Don’t look by brand name, as these people are telling you just because they got ripped off before. Look at sites like newegg.com or tiger direct and compare prices and specs for each system; decide from there and their customer ratings per laptop.</p>
<p>New 13inch MacBook Pro. I’m looking forward to my school’s insane student discount on Logic software.</p>
<p>Dell XPS17 I got for cheap on eBay. Works like a charm, and it runs games better than my desktop!</p>
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<p>weird, there are very few apples here</p>
<p>MacBook Pro. Also, I have never had a compatibility issue with my Mac. Pretty much everything that runs on a PC will also run on a Mac these days.</p>
<p>hp envy 14 beats edition. i would seriously check this laptop out, for the price you pay you get a lot of nice features. beats any macbook.</p>
<p>I love my little MacBook Pro:)</p>
<p>I have an ASPIRE from Wal-Mart. It was like $300 at the time I think. Anyways, I’ve had it for like a year and it still works perfectly fine and you couldn’t beat the price.</p>
<p>“2. Major (yes, if you take certain majors, you might need a powerful laptop)”</p>
<p>From experience I think this is a common mistake. As an undergrad, you’re not going to be doing anything that is so advanced as to require a ton of computing power. </p>
<p>"4. Battery Hours "</p>
<p>Rarely do I ever need my battery. There’s a few old lecture halls which are an exception, but nearly every place I’ve been has outlets (let the school pay to power your laptop…). Any laptop should have at least 2 hours of battery, which is good enough unless you’re planning on being away from civilization for a while. I bought a generic charger off ebay from China to keep in my backpack at all times. I leave the regular charger at home…saves a ton of time not crawling under the desk every day.</p>
<p>A Vaio F series. I love my 1920x1080 laptop screen (I’d happily trade for a 1920x1200 17" Macbook pro!)</p>
<p>Might consider a 13" air sometime in the future ;></p>
<p>Mac is good or bad depending on your discipline. Mac was bad for engineering at my school because it couldn’t run a lot of the engineering software without workarounds. Mac is superior for music, film, art, or anything media-related though. </p>
<p>I have an old Toshiba Satellite that I picked up for free at a garage sale. The screen didn’t work but I had my techie friend check it out and all it needed was a couple of connectors cleaned up. It needed a power cable but I already had a universal one from a previous laptop. He got his pay in lunch from my boyfriend and a new hard drive and RAM from another, truly broken lappy. So it was free. :D</p>
<p>“Mac is superior for music, film, art, or anything media-related though.”</p>
<p>Not really. It just does it a different way but Apple pays a lot to have people believe that their products are magical.</p>
<p>My school recommends that you don’t get a Mac if you’re going to be an engineering major. They sell (overpriced) Dells and Macs and have a checklist thing to see how compatible it is with your major.</p>
<p>I went for the 13 inch Macbook Air with the i7 upgrade. And it’s unbelievable.</p>
<p>^^ Because it’s useful to be able to fit your laptop into an envelope <em>eye roll</em></p>
<p>Dell XPS 15. i5 processor (2.9 ghtz), 500gb hard drive, 4 gb RAM, 1 gb video card. Can run pretty much anything at full graphics.</p>
<p>Only cost me $749.</p>
<p>I’ve had my MBP for about 3 years now and it hasn’t crashed/bogged once. I’m a finance major though and the entire business world runs on pc’s. I need to be able to use the windows version of Excel since that’s what I use at work and in school.</p>
<p>I bought a t520 and I just got the email that it shipped out today.</p>
<p>Not gonna get into a macbook air argument again but I will just say that I’m going to Michigan which has a giant campus and the light weight is a huge plus. With the new release a couple weeks ago that upgraded the processer two generations, it was the perfect computer for me. I’m not an apple fanboy either, I had a PC all through high school and there was no way I was gonna deal with all those PC headaches for another 4 years.</p>
<p>Macbook Pro 13</p>
<p>Only about a week old, love it already, LOVE IT! First apple product EVER (I’m a radio girl, forget ipods haha!) 13 inch is perfect too!</p>
<p>15in 2011 Macbook Pro i7 Quad-Core. I also bought the apple bluetooth keyboard, Mstand, and a logitech any where mouse. I even have a cable so i can connect it to my tv!</p>