CS and IT laptop?

Sean-Tom wrote: »

I'm hoping to start the CS and IT course in September and i'm planning on buying a laptop either way. Does anyone have any recommendations or know if i need a powerful one if I do the course or if the Lenovo scheme is any good?

Any bog-standard laptop will be grand so long as it isnt running windows 98

The Lenovo laptop is decent but SERIOUSLY overpriced. Comes bundled with lots of software for engineering students, probably the reason why its priced so high!

I'd say go on Amazon and get a good laptop for hundreds cheaper!

I bought a good laptop when I started only ever used it for games and watching tv though the IT crowd have their own computer suites and passwords which are pretty decent. If you do decide to get a laptop you can get cheap student software through microsofts software4students program and you can get all the development tools through the msdn alliance and dreamweaver projects through the college.

You shouldn't need a powerful laptop though anything relatively modern should suffice.

gant0 wrote: »

ya definatly don't go for the lenovo ones in college.Way too expensive and are nothing special not to mention they look like sh*t!!!In first year you won't need a computer really but it is handy for studying and the usual internet uses

They have an odd screen, it's not widescreen and it just looks wrong.

Don't go for the Lenovo scheme. Way overpriced and, as an engineering student, you get all the free Microsoft/Autodesk software you want for free.

Might I suggest this laptop? Picked it out for my brother. Arrived recently. Absolute cracker of a machine for a brilliant price:
http://www.komplett.ie/Komplett/product/ZKB_02PC/02_NOTEBOO/05_NOTEBOO/productdetails/20070930/MSI_CX623_081NL_Core_i3_370M__2_4_GHz_RAM_4/CX623_081NL/default.aspx

I bought the MSI GX620 when I started this course nearly two years ago. Still serving me faithfully to this day, except for a bolloxed hinge...

whiteman19 wrote: »

i think komplett have gone down the crapper recently, would avoid them if you ever had a problem with them...this was a few months ago, granted, but haven't heard if the situation has improved.

Really? They're just a shop. They take laptops from companies, slap a price tag on it and throw it in the back of a DHL van.

My brother actually went out to the "warehouse" in Blanchardstown since he lives in Dublin. He described it as, "Just a guy, sitting behind a desk, next to a set of shelves filled with laptop boxes".

I'd reccomend laptopsdirect. Got a machine off them, it broke after a year and they sorted it out with the supplier to get me a replacement.