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As of Friday I will be an apprentice for my second attempt at a degree.
I've not had a laptop in years and the last one was a netbook thing.
What laptop for general student use and a bit of CAD.
I'm not spunking my grant on an apple mackintosh personal computer but something a bit slim and not plastic i guess would be nice. As would flippy floppy spinny screen arrangement.
Advice requested piss taking expected a cider and black currant for the winner.
Northwind if you see me on campus i don't know you
Do you need to do CAD at home?
2d or 3D?
My Business laptop is one of the XPS's
Happily runs any of the modern 3d Engineering programs to a point
Plenty of juice in these too
Should get some decent life out of either.
Fill blown cad nah i have a workstation capable of running big biys stuff at work. Just a bit of light stuff in reality anything will probably do what i need.
Chromebook
See I'm not convinced by a chromebook. Admittedly because my tablet is a pain in the arse. But windows would be my preference i think the cloud is alright but i'll want to run some software that will probably only run on windows.
Used dell outlet stuff for work for a while before they were relegated to personal stuff.
Something light and decent battery will do you fine for most stuff
In that case I withdraw my suggestion. 🙂
Lenovo for build quality, Dell Outlet for a bargain. Plenty of RAM, SSD (you can retro-fit an SSD if needs be, use the existing HDD as a backup device).
....Apple if you want to make your email come alive
Give it a couple of months and Google will (very possibly) reveal that newer Chromebooks will dual boot with Windows 10.
Not that it helps you right now!
….Apple if you want to make your email come alive
Nah that is mushrooms man....Or I hear turn up to STW and the whole web page comes alive people tell me
Make sure you budget £100ish for a 24" monitor to, CAD on a laptop screen would be horrible.
Weight can be important depending on how you travel.
Also, lecture halls at HWU have narrow desks, so don't get anything too big.
You get all the MS Office programmes for free through your uni email account (Office 365) and you install a programme or app to access the uni wifi (lots of phone dead zones). That may preclude Chrome OS, but I'm not sure.
I ended up using a second hand MS Surface with Win 10 last year. Worked well for me.