LAPTOP

Literally anything will do. Any decent school will have a lab room where you'll have access to decent computers with 22-24 inch screens with i7s and 16GBs of RAM.

Otherwise screen size is important. I think 15.6" is way too big. 14 is ideal. Preferably with a resolution of greater than 1367x768. You want 8GBs of RAM and an i5 or greater. Ideally.

>Mobile Development
Get 4 cores(actual cores not threads) and +8GB of RAM.

I'll add by saying Lenovo, Dell, Asus and Toshiba are great brands. I would say a Thinkpad would be a good investment.

>Computer Science II
This means fuck all without knowing what you'll actually be doing.
>Fundamentals of Computer Security
That was mostly a pen-paper course at my uni, you implement your algorithms on a computer with something like Python or maybe C. You don't need anything powerful for that.
>Discrete Math for Computing
Don't need a computer for that at all.
>Introduction to Routing and Switching
We did routing/switching simulations using Python scripts.
You'll be fine with a craptop desu. Don't waste money on technology you won't need, save it and use it for better university housing or something. One of my regrets about college was that I couldn't stay on campus and take advantage of study groups and office times, I had to commute home every day. I also knew very few people, so it didn't help me out much. I don't know if it would have helped with making friends, but maybe living on campus would have helped with the stress of college.

I'm going to give you the greatest advice I ever heard.
Get a nice desktop. Nothing too much. Maybe a nice cpu and 16gb of ram with a SSD.
You can forget the GPU because if you are still gaymen in college you need to grow the fuck up.

Then get one of those two in one surface/thinkpad helix memes from like, five years ago. They are lightweight, cheap and if you buy them with no OS and put your linux distro of choice on it, it will be even cheaper, and more than snappy enough to do word processing/music listening/porn and writing code provided you use a lightweight IDE (which you should anyway). Then, if you need to do any heavy lifting, SSN into your desktop and do it there, eventually, if you go to a good college, you'll be able to ssn into their uber-computer and do heavy liftan there.

Don't get anything with an i7, stay with the i5s you'll need battery life.
1.8ghz or higher
4gb of ram is plenty but if you want 8 then fine.
If you wish, it is usually pretty cheap to upgrade the ssds inside of the 2 in 1's provided you have half a brain.
Touchscreens are good for scrap paper when doing math problems, which you might do a lot of in calc 1.
DONT GET A FUCKING CHINKTOP YOU WILL BE SPIED ON
DONT GET A FUCKING APPLEL TODDLER-TOP YOU WONT HAVE ANY MONEY FOR BEER

Attached: lenovo-thinkpad-helix-3698-n3z6dmh.jpg (1920x1579, 289K)

*Cracks beer an sip
Yep.

*cracks smirnoff Ice*
yep

Attached: zoom.png (680x274, 171K)

>computer security
>pen-paper
My school is normally dirtfuck cheap but they did give us a lab full of Kali machines and a central server where they could set up all sorts of insecure VMs for us to rape

>because if you are still gaymen in college you need to grow the fuck up.
How do people give up things that they like? I seriously don't get it. I don't understand how you outgrow something.
I can use the same rhetoric for fucking anything.

You just stop liking it.
If can be fucked to have any passion for your work then you'll use your freetime to learn extra shit about things in your field that you like.

I do math in uni and when I'm done with my work I do project Euler and learn web development.
Gaymen feels like a waste of time to me now.

going to uni need a laptop around £1000 budget - wouldn't mind if it could run a game or two

refurb p50/p51.

being an idiot - but where?

Ebay, Amazon has them sometime, your best bet is your local off lease equipment dealer.

i live somewhere VAT free so if you could recomend something that os s0old by amazon that would be prefered

My x220 is literally the best piece of tech i had. It has a dock, enough ports and last around 18 hours. It is moderately fast and i can run linux with coreboot on it. It has no problems with drivers whatsoever and you can pop in an ssd and replace the ram. Just get a model with the best cpu and an ips panel

>dispensing life advice while still an undergraduate

You'll probably outgrow vidya one of these days.

Sounds like you're an RIT student.

Overpriced and overrated. OP could get an X230 with coreboot + me clean for 1/4 the cost.

I don't see how playing games is fundamentally different from reading non-fiction or watching films if you're playing them casually? I'd understand if someone said something like 'don't spend all your free time playing WOW', but to dispel games entirely? It seems close minded desu, people can't be productive in every waking hour, games can be a smart way to unwind/prevent burn out if approached in a healthy and restrained way.

You gotta be 18 to post on this board friend.

Thoughts on this?
ebay.com/itm/DELL-E5440-14-0-B-Grade-Laptop-Intel-Core-i5-4th-Gen-4300U-1-90-GHz-500-GB-HD/382166202655?hash=item58fae1791f:g:ItAAAOSwjGpZ0MGc&LH_BIN=1&LH_ItemCondition=2000
I need a cheap computer for my University ASAP. The one I have is a Dell N5050 that's I've used for years that has overstayed its welcome.

Attached: 68481160_p0_master1200.jpg (1069x1200, 255K)

I am LOL

Why don't you wait for the MacBook Air refresh to be announced? There are certainly advantages to developing in macOS if you're not going to install linux yourself.

Plus, you're taking mobile development. Won't it be useful to have Xcode without hackintosh?

Books are not engineered to be addictive, and they've existed as an artistic medium long enough to have an enormous backlog of high-quality artistic non/fiction which is a more pure translation of ideas (and therefore wisdom which is really what you're trying to get from art)

Games may have potential to teach you things or evoke deep emotional experiences, but in practice not a lot have managed to do that yet cause it's still a young medium.

Film is kind of in-between. I'm sort of a brainlet but it's basically a sliding scale of maturity based on how much of an attention span something needs in order to complete it.

I read a lot of wuxia and xianxia webnovels. They're typically serialized and released at the pace of 2-3 chapters per day. I'd say stuff like that is addictive.

Anyone???

>buy some outdated piece of shit with the eternal resolution
>hunt for replacement parts that become increasingly scarce over time as your laptop starts breaking down
>enjoy your slow garbage in the meantime

>buy a fast new laptop with a nice full HD screen
>support a company that cares about your freedom in the process
>enjoy free (as in freedom) and fast laptops for ages to come

>university
enjoy discovering that you're a woman instead of learning how to code

macbook pro if you can afford it

no, you're stupid. if OP is doing mobile development, he'll probably be writing java for android at some point. those fatass fucking gradle builds ain't gonna execute themselves.

I unironically use a surface

Attached: image.jpg (671x717, 291K)

Hello BR

best laptop imo

It's windows and intel so it would be American botnets instead of Chinese ones, if that makes you feel any better. Otherwise it's a pretty good buy.

Thoughts on the Acer E15 line?
I'm considering getting one from my wife's bf.

>Not knowing the proper uses of your GPU.