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If you are limited in Budget which laptop( in terms of specifications #specs) will be useful if you are starting an undergraduate degree in computer science....
 
Mwera said:
If you are limited in Budget which laptop( in terms of specifications #specs) will be useful if you are starting an undergraduate degree in computer science....
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Usually helps to list a budget and if you have any specific requirements which you'd get in terms of courseware.. Most compsci degrees will want some kind of nvidia GPU support as well.
 
Mwera said:
R5000
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For that budget your best bet will be a secondhand one.
Just search around there are some bargains out there. I got a T510 Thinkpad, i7 Vpro with 6 months left on its warranty a couple of years ago for R4500...
 
How about a laptop with i3 processor since I will be doing only programming
 
Have a look at this website. I have recommended a few friends and family members who have purchased laptops for either themselves or their kids for school or university. You might find a really good i5 laptop within your budget. They also offer warranty on their refurbished units. Most of the laptops come with 4GB ram but I would look at upgrading that at least.
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Mwera said:
How about a laptop with i3 processor since I will be doing only programming
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If you meant “only play solitaire” then yes an i3 notebook is probably fine.

But IDEs, compiling/building, browser tabs, etc is going to be an absolutely terrible experience on an i3.

At the same time, get whatever will allow you to do the work to gain the knowledge to make the money.
Going 2nd hand/refurbished is definitely the way to go here
 
ponder said:
Can one not do that on a free vps from ms, amazon etc
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I am sure with a modified workflow you absolutely could.
There are actually some awesome looking cloud based full development environments like GitHub Codespaces - https://github.com/features/codespaces


I think also, if you took one of these cheap notebooks and installed Kubuntu (or any Linux desktop environment), you could have a fine experience.
 
_kabal_ said:
I am sure with a modified workflow you absolutely could.
There are actually some awesome looking cloud based full development environments like GitHub Codespaces - https://github.com/features/codespaces


I think also, if you took one of these cheap notebooks and installed Kubuntu (or any Linux desktop environment), you could have a fine experience.
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I'm not a dev so don't know much but I think the likes of ms, amazon will give students a free vps if they register with them as students. No idea how powerful the vps would be but I suspect it might be better than a low end laptop.

Do varsities prescribe commercial or opensource tools for cs students?
 
ponder said:
I'm not a dev so don't know much but I think the likes of ms, amazon will give students a free vps if they register with them as students. No idea how powerful the vps would be but I suspect it might be better than a low end laptop.

Do varsities prescribe commercial or opensource tools for cs students?
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those free vps are great as SSH build/hosting machines, but they like 0.5 vCPU's and a 1GB of memory, so you cannot really use them as a desktop environment
 
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