Engineering Laptop

Craigsy

I'm planning on doing General Engineering next year, (hopefully:D). Just looking for advice from people doing that course on what kind of laptop people would recommend for it.
Cheers

Meh, a laptop can be handy but it is not essential for engineering (but by handy, it was very very handy for final year!).

mathew

Engineers tend to have good access to computer rooms with all the software you need. A laptop isnt really necessary for lectures. Not practical at all for taking notes since there are diagrams all over the place. Your best going old fashioned with the pen and paper.

Any decent ish laptop is grand really if you wanna go for one ( I have a mac, but have windows installed too).
If your gonna use it for everything instead of the computer rooms, its gonna need to be able to run AutoCAD and the likes, so one of the Dell Minis prob wouldnt be the best option.

Besta luck with the LC tho, good choice of course :P

devinejay

Yeah all of the above advice is on the money. I bought mine because my dad works from home so the family PC isn't really available all the time. If it's ten pm and you've got to do an excel graph for the morning, your own laptop is definitely handy. Be aware however that you may (will?) find yourself wasting a lot (like really a lot) of time on the 'net when you could be studying:rolleyes:

timmywex

Craigsy wrote: »

I'm planning on doing General Engineering next year, (hopefully:D). Just looking for advice from people doing that course on what kind of laptop people would recommend for it.
Cheers

See ya there

mathew

devinejay wrote: »

Yeah all of the above advice is on the money. I bought mine because my dad works from home so the family PC isn't really available all the time. If it's ten pm and you've got to do an excel graph for the morning, your own laptop is definitely handy. Be aware however that you may (will?) find yourself wasting a lot (like really a lot) of time on the 'net when you could be studying:rolleyes:

Very true.. Lot of time is wasted. But it is very handy to have your own machine to work on.

If your from outside the pale and gonna be living in student accomodation it'd also be advisable. Gives you something to do when your at home. Much better to have your own computer for music, movies and the likes. No chance of doing that on any of the college machines.

Also, certainly for me anyway, the majority of my social life is arranged on line by email where we can have group threads etc. Works much better than text cause you can talk to everyone and see replies. Very handy to be able to check email frequently too..