QUOTE(efili @ Apr 29 2015, 08:01 AM)
only need i7 if you want to play hardcore games ! eh wait those days with "ntah!, aibob, servers"
even i heard design lab - engineering now have good pc's (Xeon's or i7 something ?) !
those days have to wait for iteration so slowww using XP's T_T
back to your question. it depends on your budget and usage.
a laptop wont last forever, the practice that i did was to get a decent (mid spec laptop - got myself 2nd hand i5 3rd gen last time) then build own PC for several purpose such as Matlab, Solidworks, CAD/CAE software and even gaming.
broke my laptop during 1st year degree. couldn't handle the normal Pro-E software. Lets not talk about Pro-M.
BTW :
Please keep your laptop bag safe ! Uniten got a lot of "long hands" aka thieves ! especially in the COE Surau.
For muslims, if you want to pray. Either leave your bag with a friend or put infront of you while praying.
QUOTE(rookie93 @ Apr 30 2015, 12:22 PM)
at least have an i5 model, 4gb of ram, intel hd 5000 and above and 500gb hdd above. If you are in Engineering programs such as Gambit, Matlab, Solidworks and Arduino may require more capable specs such as more RAM, i7 processors and NVIDIA GTX graphics to finish fast and even SSDs to transfer data fast. Otherwise, the time u wait is much considered as time wasted as u cant use the laptop to do anything else at all....
Both your laptops more towards mid-high spec already. Last time I was only using Core 2 Duo with 3 Gb of RAM and a onboard graphics. Still boleh pakai la with quite a few heavy memory consumption programs installed such as ProE with ProM extension, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, MATLab, FLUENT, MasterCAM and also CNCSimulator.
The laptop is still in pretty good state as of today. Of course, after I finished, I formatted the HDD but kept a copy of my FYP files la for remembrance.
These days, one can easily get an i5 and 4Gb RAM laptop with a decent 2Gb graphics card.
This post has been edited by DreMAx: Apr 30 2015, 12:41 PM