Work laptop university (computer science) recommendations?
Does anyone have any laptop recommendations for an information technology student, or what I should look for? Is there anything usable available for under €600 these days?
I'd use the laptop primarily for on-the-go work, lectures, slides, etc. The focus will likely be on security/AI (data-intensive stuff). For the latter, I've done a lot of work with Python and parallelization, at least in my bachelor's thesis, although for truly data-intensive research, I work on clusters anyway. However, it should be possible to run smaller scripts.
So I don’t need crazy graphics.
I don't know much about technology, but Lenovo at least has alleged student discounts: https://www.lenovo.com/de/edu/deeducation/de/d/university-student-laptops/
Can I get one of the cheaper ones, or should I look somewhere else entirely?
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Hast du den Bachelor als Fernstudium gemacht, oder wie kannst du ohne Laptop ausgekommen sein?
Gebrauchtmarkt geht, musst aber schauen dass es preislich gerechtfertigt ist und die Akkulaufzeit noch gut ist. Würde dir aufjedenfall ein Gerät aus 2020 zu kaufen. Gibt aber auch neu etwas, wenn du nicht eine dedizierte Grafikkarte erwartest. Würde dir einen soliden Prozessor empfehlen (mindestens i3 oder Ryzen 3 der 11. Generation (eher aber neuere Gen.)) und 16GB Ram (8 GB gehen zwar, aber vorallem wenn du keine dedizierte Grafikkarte hast ist der Ram bei ein paar Google Chrome Tabs schon voll, vorallem für so Programme oder Skripte ist das also von Vorteil mehr zu haben). Dann noch gute Akkulaufzeit, keinen Laubbläser im Idle (um andere nicht in der Uni zu nerven) und einen soliden Screen (sollte jeder nicht-billig Laptop heutzutage eh haben)
Thanks for the reply. I did it as a distance learning course because I didn't feel like commuting, but otherwise, it's a completely normal (elite) university. 16GB of RAM and a processor sound pretty helpful. How can I check the battery life of used equipment? It's also hard to hear the volume when you're not there.
Akkulaufzeit von gebrauchten Laptops ist so eine Sache..
Würde dir aufjedenfall empfehlen Reviews zu möglichen Laptops auf Youtube anzuschauen
I would even rather spend more, for example for the Ideapad 5 Pro 14AHP9
https://www.campuspoint.de/lenovocampus-ideapad-pro-5-14-ahp-g9-83d3002rge.html
Powerful hardware and a large battery for on the go
Well, for your application, you can use any crappy machine. Just make sure it's not the €120 Aldi laptop; that's junk.
As soon as it comes to AI and the like, you can do it on your cluster anyway—at least that's how it is at my university. Everyone has an account, and you can connect via VNC. That means
16GB RAM,
I would like to have ≥ 6 cores.
Ryzen 5 would be nice.
Lenovo is rather expensive, with Huawei you usually get better value for money
I got my Matebook 16 for €599 (discounted from €1200 to €699 – €100 student discount)
I'm a fan of Dell. IIRC, they also offer student discounts. The consumer series (Inspiron) should be sufficient. But I'd go for at least 16GB of RAM. And of course, at least a Core i3/Ryzen 3, although that might be a bit weak for really data-intensive stuff. Whether that's compatible with your budget is another question.
You can usually only get Win Pro with the business Inspiron/Vostro/etc.
Not all notebooks have a built-in LAN port. It can be annoying, even if USB adapters are available.
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was meinst du mit ” Und natürlich mind. Core i3/Ryzen 3″? mind. neuere version, oder schneidet im benchmarking besser ab? oder eine ganz andere vergleichsmetrik
Damit meine ich “nicht die absolut kastrierten Spar-CPUs nehmen”. Kannst auch mal z. B. auf https://www.cpubenchmark.net/ schauen.
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