Would this be a good laptop for aerospace engineering?

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<p><a href=“http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/y-series/y40/”>http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/y-series/y40/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>The first option ($849… $829 after the student discount); Its $300 off this week (regularly $1,149), so I was think about ordering it. What do you guys think? I am a freshman majoring in aerospace engineering and this will be my first laptop purchase. I’m paying for it myself, so I definitely don’t want to purchase a laptop that is not adequate. </p>

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<p>Check with your college website. (If separate school of engineering, go to their website.) Often any basic recent laptop is OK. Some students opt to not upgrade until after freshman year when they know more. Good luck! </p>

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<p>They don’t really have any specific guidelines; I talked to some of the orientation leaders, and they said to get a powerful gaming laptop. I don’t have a laptop now, so I would like to buy a laptop that can handle all the engineering programs rather than buy a cheap laptop now, and have to buy another one sophomore year.</p>

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<p>Ok. I assumed you had a laptop from high school. Others will know more about specs for “powerful gaming laptop”. </p>

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<p>Where will you be going to school?</p>

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<p>It might just be that the orientation leaders are gamers and figured you were like a lot of kids and like to game too. </p>

<p>In most cases, you don’t really <em>need</em> a gaming laptop unless you do intend to play games on it, and/or your school does not have adequate computer labs for your needs. Do you know anything about the labs at your school? Do engineering/science students have their own dedicated labs or do they share with other majors? Generally speaking, most computer labs have more than enough computers for students to use. If you have multiple labs on campus, some may be dedicated to engineering/science students and offer more powerful hardware and come loaded with all of the programs you will need to use. Every school does it differently though, so find out more information about the computer labs available to students.</p>

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<p>Usually a high-quality processer will do most of what you need to do as an engineering student. Do you know what kind of programs you’ll be expected to use? </p>

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<p>Just make sure it can run Kerbal Space Program or X Plane 10 depending on what focus you favor :-)</p>

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<p>I went ahead and bought the lenovo y40, thank you guys </p>

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<p>A decent gaming laptop is good for handling potentially resource-heavy programs like SolidWorks, but you should also have access to these programs in computer labs. I think the Lenovo ought to be fine.</p>

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<p>There’s no reason to concern oneself with running SolidWorks on a laptop.</p>

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<p>Anybody else sick of these threads, like holy heck</p>

<p>ZOMG i need a very special computer for engineering </p>

<p>OP you need a laptop with 16gb of 1600 mhz of AEROSPACE ENGINEERING RAM and a 3.3 ghz i5 Haswell AEROSPACE ENGINEERING CPU</p>

<p>oh, SEARCH FUNCTIONS</p>

<p><a href=“LMGTFY - Let Me Google That For You”>LMGTFY - Let Me Google That For You;

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<p>And by the way, more than likely any laptop you buy will be TOO much, take a look at the laptops the professors use; they’re usually crappy compared to the ones students have</p>

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<p>OP: What laptop do I need for X engineering… I like laptop Y; tell me if its good… ‘Well what are u going to use this laptop for’… ignore advise and buy laptop Y anyway.</p>

<p>why post?</p>

<p>All jokes aside, I’m starting to believe everybody in engineering just <em>needs</em> a chromebook (running with Linux) to complete assignments, research, and computations. Emphasis on “need” not “want”, like gaming or 1080p movie streaming.</p>