Recommended Laptop for Uni?

[Lewis2212]

(2018-03-18 17:45)Pete Wrote:  During my CS undergraduate, I primarily used a £200 Asus netbook. I used the same netbook during my Masters and for the first 18 months of my PhD before investing in a 13" MacBook Pro.

I had a Windows/Ubuntu dualboot on the netbook. It's useful to have a linux partition as well as a Windows partition during a UK CS undergraduate.

Of course, I utilised the PCs at university and my PC at home, but in the meantime, for lectures, travel and stuff in the library, my netbook was perfect. Sadly, for the things I'm doing these days, it simply wasn't powerful enough, plus I only develop on unix now so that's why I got the MacBook.

Good luck with your degree.

Thanks for that information - Definitely helps out with what I'm looking at etc. I think I'll definitely use the Computer labs at University to my advantage, as well as my PC back at my accommodation.

The idea of having a laptop with a dualboot is something I never really thought of much. Definitely an idea which I will probably go with.

It's interesting that you used a relatively cheap Netbook for it. I'm still looking around at what to get

Thanks Pete.