Thursday, September 18, 2014

What's a good laptop for CS major?

I bought a laptop from Office Depot almost a year ago. When summer began, so did my laptops hardware problems, after summer break and three trips to the company I ensured my laptop with, they broke the key board and the touchpad on it so they gave me my money back… In the form of an Office Depot card…

Office depot doesn't have very many options for the kind of specs I need, and the laptops I was going to get are all sold out, my mother called, and the person said five days and it would be in stock again, two weeks later she called again and they said it would be in stock in two weeks, I do not have time to wait for it to be in stock if it ever will be.
So I started looking at different laptops, they have an MSI Dragon Army Ge70 Apache pro-061 but I'm not familiar with this brand. Is this specific laptop any good?
Also they have multiple series of the Lenovo ThinkPad, there are so many different ones it would take longer to type them out then to give you a link to OfficeDepot to check them out yourselves.
http://www.officedepot.com/a/browse/laptops/N=5+592158/
Now the specs my IT friend said I would need, and a website listing specs a CS major would need for their laptop is:
1920X1080p
2.6 GHz Intel core i5
8gb
SSD
That's about it…
I would have preferred to have a touch screen for the program I will be doing as practice before starting college in the spring, but I will sacrifice it for quality.
Oh and price is preferred under $1,000
That's all that'll fit, thanks!

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