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Originally Posted by copyright1997reloaded
Computer Science Professor here (and ex developer in my earlier 30+ year mega-corp life).
The laptop you purchased is not underpowered and has adequate memory for what he is likely to be doing, even in a Computer Science program. It is about the same as the HP Omen I use for my classes, including programming classes such as Unity (Game Design), C#, Python, Database (Oracle install) and show virtualization in action (VMWare Workstation, Virtual Box, Hyper-V). Heck, I can do most of these things on a Lenovo T420 circa 2012! (The exception to that is Unity is pretty slow due to the built in graphics of that business laptop).
What it *IS* missing that he might need to address is that it is missing a web-cam. Not a big deal, but surprising to see for something being sold today.
If he likes doing CS and finds that he needs something better in his Junior/Senior/grad school years, then address it then...the cardinal 0rule of computer systems is that it is better to wait (as they get faster w/each generation).
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Thanks- I'm so glad to hear that what we bought will work. I have no idea about that sort of thing- he could tell me what specs he needed, but it would make zero sense to me, and he could just make it up and I'd never know the difference..
He's delighted with it- it's a huge upgrade from his chromebook. And it's almost summer. He has been talking about a job....
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