Which laptop for computer science students?
Hey, I'm planning to study computer science. A laptop would be beneficial for that. I'm just wondering which one would be most suitable. I'm thinking about getting a MacBook Air with an M2 chip and 16GB of RAM. Is this good enough? Or are there better options?
Thank you in advance
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The laptop sounds perfect for studying. Of course there is better, especially for the price – but better is not the same more convenient.
For studying, generally for school etc., a device from the Apple universe, in my opinion, is best.
However, if you put value on the letter, I would rather get a 2-in-1 laptop, ie a laptop that can be folded to the tablet and then can be served with a pen.
There the Surface 2-in-1 laptops should be quite good, but with the smallest effort, things will be very hot as no ventilation is installed.
MacOS is great for users and great for development. And it goes too much.
Take a Linux notebook. You can do it right and also learn a reasonable operating system for servers.
For lectures, I can recommend the Huawei MatePad Paper. Open Android, great font recognition and eternal battery life.
MacOS is a full-fledged Unix and has the same rich offering of FOSS as Linux. What, specifically, is it worse for development?
You can argue about the price-performance ratio, but it already has its reason that Macbooks are very popular with developers.
I have a software company and no one of our developers wants a Macbook voluntarily. If they could get company costs, they don't want to.
This will be far more than good enough. I could not have afforded such an expensive device as a first semester, and it would not have been necessary: even a simple used laptop with any operating system would suffice.
Your laptop's hardware will be your least concern in computer science studies, the hardware between your ears will be much more stressed…
Performance is irrelevant.
The cheapest part with halfway battery and Windows/Linux dual boat should meet all your requirements.
Even better would probably be a tablet for writing in the lectures.
Definitely!
Macbooks are for people who have no idea of computer science (or for developers for Apple specific applications).
Find an equivalent Windows, or even better LINUX notebook.
Get some Linux.