<p>I will be transferring to sjsu and I want to know what kind of laptop should I buy for a software engineering major? </p>
<p>You should ask your advisor, or the department if you don’t have an advisor yet. </p>
<p>This should help:
<a href=“Home Computing Environment - SJSU - School of Information”>Home Computing Environment - SJSU - School of Information;
<p>but make sure you have much more than enough memory if you will be doing coding. If you will be doing anything with graphics, you’ll need to have switchable graphics which is unusual for laptops - you have to look for it.</p>
<p>And you should get at least a 17" screen (and a good padded bag for your computer if you plan on taking it to class), because you’ll end up with several windows open at once as you code.</p>
<p>Get something with a high resolution screen so that u can fit more on your screen. Bigger screen =/= more on the screen.</p>
<p>If you are into iOS/OS X development + any platform that works on windows, go with a retina macbook pro. rMBP also has killer resale value.</p>
<p>If you are only interested in any platform that can be developed on windows, and you like convertible ultrabooks, get the Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro.</p>
<p><a href=“https://docs(dot)google(dot)com/document/d/12wz_1Y0aK6FZJUBb24xqT-dgQrN-XydvouAxXXbA8PU/edit?usp=sharing”>https://docs(dot)google(dot)com/document/d/12wz_1Y0aK6FZJUBb24xqT-dgQrN-XydvouAxXXbA8PU/edit?usp=sharing</a></p>
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<p>If you’re going to be doing any serious software development then a MacBook Pro, You can either dual-boot with windows, or run parallels on Mac OS X to get access to Windows and Visual Studio. You could also hackintosh, but that can be a pain. If you want to code with the .NET environment, you have to do it on Windows, if you want to code at all for OS X or iOS, then you need XCode, which is Mac OS X only. </p>