<p>This is the laptop I had that got me through my first year at A&M.</p>
<p>[Newegg.com</a> - SONY VAIO CW Series VPCCW27FX/B NoteBook Intel Core i5 520M(2.40GHz) 14" 4GB Memory DDR3 1066 500GB HDD 5400rpm BD Combo NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M](<a href=“Are you a human?”>Are you a human?)</p>
<p>I thought it did a great job and handled everything I threw at it. Sometimes I’d have solidworks up as well as Photoshop CS4 and LabVIEW. I’m not really sure if that’s an impressive load to carry but I can’t really see someone doing more than that without at least closing another program, maybe it could do more. So probably equivalent or better components would make you be more than fine.</p>
<p>My only complain would be if the battery life was slightly better.</p>
<p>I’m not recommending Sony over anything else, there was just a good deal on it at the time.</p>