What is the best laptop for a computer engineer?

Clifford Gadd: What is the best laptop for a computer engineer?
I’m in college and on my way to becoming a computer engineer. I haven’t taken any programming classes yet, but all I have is an acer netbook. I’m planning on buying a new laptop by next spring and I was wondering what the best laptop would be for me to purchase. It doesn’t matter to me if it’s a mac or a pc. I just want a laptop that will be able to handle everything that I throw at it. Thanks for all your help.

Answers and Views:

Answer by Cave Creek
Talk to your adviser or teacher and ask what capabilities your computer will need in order to help with your courses. Then look for those capabilities in several brands. Personally H-P is hard to beat.

Answer by Tomo285
Get a MacBook Pro. Since it can run both Mac OS X and Windows, you can do almost any programming on it. Plus they’re safe and reliable.

Answer by NickyPooh!
It doesn’t matter which brand you buy. Look for higher processing speed and higher memory. The processor is mentioned in Ghz. 3.0 Ghz or higher would be preferable. Also look for Core Duo or anything higher than that type of processor. Preferable memory should be 4GB or bigger.

Hard Drive is usually only used as a storage space but it is also used for caching by the operating system IF the processing and memory falls short when you have lots of programs open at the same time. So I would suggest anything bigger than 350 GB of hard drive.

Hope this helps. Good luck.

Answer by Colanth
An Acer netbook is really all you need. You’ll be writing a lot of test files (source code is text) and making some graphics (GUIs). Not anything a 1990s computer couldn’t handle.

If you want to throw more than programming at it, look at https://www.gateway.com/worldwide/ Either one is more than you need. (I own two of their top laptops – the older models of these. I’m happy with them.)

Answer by Simon H
I think you can get any brand, search it first from amazon:

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