Requirement for Cornell chemical engineering computer

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<p>My brother recently got into the chemical engineering in Cornell. I did see the computer requirements on the Cornell site, except apparently my dad thinks the engineering college has more requirements.
Would these computers: Newegg.com - MSI GT Series GT60 0NC-002US Notebook Intel Core i7 3610QM(2.30GHz) 15.6" 12GB Memory DDR3 1600 1TB HDD 7200rpm DVD Super Multi NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M</p>

<p>iBUYPOWER Computer :: Battalion 101 P151EM1 Gaming Laptop</p>

<p>Be ok for engineering?
They bother have i7’s more or equal 8gb of ram, and more or equal to 750gb.</p>

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<p>Gaming laptops are a complete waste of money for a lot of reasons (overpriced, terrible reliability, far less powerful than desktops). If you want to do gaming, build a gaming desktop and buy a decent laptop, and that will still end up costing less than the laptop you’re talking about.</p>

<p>If you’re not going to be gaming, then you shouldn’t be looking at laptops like that in the first place, because most of that price is a result of the gaming graphics card it has.</p>