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The biggest limiting factor for computer scientists is now RAM memory because software and operating systems seem to try to take more and more every year.ĤGB: this is fine if you want to write code through Windows 10 S mode/ Chrome OS/ Mac OSX. You could also ask reddit or quora to corroborate this but they’ll probably be too vague about and say things like “any cheap old laptop will do” which is not entirely wrong…īut you should still be aware of a few things when buying a laptop so you can multitask flawlessly and launch a heavy IDE to write code in split seconds.ĬPUs made today are way way too powerful for the average user and for programmers too. If you still doubt you don’t need that much power, check the last section of this post where I explicitly go through the curriculum of the typical computer science program. Picking the laptop that will give you the most productive and comfortable working environment to CODE which is what you’ll be doing, albeit rather sparingly, in every class. The only thing you should be focusing on is… I’m just trying to tell you that, unless you’re buying this laptop for gaming, computer power should be the least of your concerns. I’m not telling you to buy a cheap 150$ ChromeBook (though that might not be such a bad idea. Most computer scientists will only need the performance of the cheapest ChromeBook from wallmart. Most computer scientists do not do that and even those who do, they do not necessarily need bad-ass hardware for it. If I’m going to take classes about computer hardware and programming paradigms that will at some point, teach me how to write awesome code to make computers better and more efficient, I will need the most powerful machine I can afford right? I thought about buying the most bad ass laptop of the year with the latest CPU and GPU on it.