[PinkPhazer]

Hey I'm about to go to university to do Electronic and Electrical Engineering.

When I was at the open days and in the electronics labs I could see the students working on their laptops looking at circuit designs and using them to build the circuits they were looking on. Im not sure if the program they were using was fancy or anything but I imagine doing an Engineering degree I will need a laptop that can handle large software packages like auto cad and things like that.

Im not really that clued up on computers so I may be talking gibberish. Any advice from somebody doing engineering would be pretty great. My budget is £500, what should I be looking to get?

thanks

[bahjat93]

(Original post by PinkPhazer)
Hey I'm about to go to university to do Electronic and Electrical Engineering.

When I was at the open days and in the electronics labs I could see the students working on their laptops looking at circuit designs and using them to build the circuits they were looking on. Im not sure if the program they were using was fancy or anything but I imagine doing an Engineering degree I will need a laptop that can handle large software packages like auto cad and things like that.

Im not really that clued up on computers so I may be talking gibberish. Any advice from somebody doing engineering would be pretty great. My budget is £500, what should I be looking to get?

thanks

I too am doing Electronic and Electrical Engineering and it's nice to see some1 else who is doing it as well .
The programme that most universities run can be run on your standard Laptop (Don't get some ancient laptop just a normal one will do).

Edit: i'm taking my Hp G62 to university with me

[Gofre]

(Original post by PinkPhazer)
Hey I'm about to go to university to do Electronic and Electrical Engineering.

When I was at the open days and in the electronics labs I could see the students working on their laptops looking at circuit designs and using them to build the circuits they were looking on. Im not sure if the program they were using was fancy or anything but I imagine doing an Engineering degree I will need a laptop that can handle large software packages like auto cad and things like that.

Im not really that clued up on computers so I may be talking gibberish. Any advice from somebody doing engineering would be pretty great. My budget is £500, what should I be looking to get?

thanks

http://www.ebuyer.com/365919-acer-as...p-nx-rv3ek-002

Sandybridge i5, 4GB of RAM, and a decent 1GB decimated graphics card. Pretty much as good as it gets for just over the £500 mark.

[Basshunter]

Hey I just finished my first year in engineering. I'm not really doing anything to do with electrical engineering..I'm into bioengineering(which still has a lot of programming) but I have a lot of friends who're doing Electrical and computer engineering. The first year they didn't do much. They had C, C+, C++ and MATLAB. Any Windows or linux operating system should be fine. As for the laptop company, HP and Dell are good. Asus is great. An i5 processor and a 4GB RAM is good enough. You might need at least 500GB disk space since you'd have a lot of stuff to store. Hope this helps.

[PinkPhazer]

Thanks, all this is really helpfull!

[PinkPhazer]

What d you guys make of this? :

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-...puters_title_1

[Gofre]

(Original post by PinkPhazer)
What d you guys make of this? :

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-...puters_title_1

The one I suggested above is a decent step up in terms of graphics performance, I'd go for that if you don'y mind spending the extra £8.

[spikeymike]

(Original post by Gofre)
http://www.ebuyer.com/365919-acer-as...p-nx-rv3ek-002

Sandybridge i5, 4GB of RAM, and a decent 1GB decimated graphics card. Pretty much as good as it gets for just over the £500 mark.

I hate Acer for their shoddy build quality. This review tells me its all plastic and the lid is glossy which means it's going to catch fingerprints like crazy. Also, Toshiba hard drive... Great spec, poor quality, a good laptop is meaningless without quality. The 2nd link listed below, tells me the pamrest area sinks in when pressure is applied which further backs up my point.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-...k.68113.0.html
http://www.digitalversus.com/laptop/...1580/test.html

[PinkPhazer]

(Original post by spikeymike)
I hate Acer for their shoddy build quality. This review tells me its all plastic and the lid is glossy which means it's going to catch fingerprints like crazy. Also, Toshiba hard drive... Great spec, poor quality, a good laptop is meaningless without quality. The 2nd link listed below, tells me the pamrest area sinks in when pressure is applied which further backs up my point.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-...k.68113.0.html
http://www.digitalversus.com/laptop/...1580/test.html

Yeah, I was looking at video reviews on youtube and im not a fan of glossy lids. Though it isnt that much of a problem. I think the next best thing I could find in terms of specs and price was an Asus K53E, also I have read in tonnes of places that asus are highly recommended as they are good build quality . What do you guys think?

[Iqbal007]

(Original post by PinkPhazer)
Yeah, I was looking at video reviews on youtube and im not a fan of glossy lids. Though it isnt that much of a problem. I think the next best thing I could find in terms of specs and price was an Asus K53E, also I have read in tonnes of places that asus are highly recommended as they are good build quality . What do you guys think?

Asus are definitely something to look at in all honesty, just doesn't have a dedicated graphics card.

I kind of do EEE, but bits of it, as far as I know you guys do C++, bits of Java and programs which don't require much, but we never really used laptops, we have electronic labs with everything we needed and the software on the computers.

[Basshunter]

Do not buy acer.

I'm serious.