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How are these for alternative? Only reason I'm not picking up suggested laptops is because they all have OLED screen which is not a feature I'm looking for.
I'm mainly looking for good CPU, SSD storage, and RAM first.
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A lot of these you probably already know, generally people here seem to know more than me. But anyway -
1) Its probably important to have good build quality and reasonable cooling on a laptop. I have no idea on this for any model.
2) Usually i try to look for popular+latest models with lots of reviews and scan through reviews for possible issues and then try to find what meets my needs without paying for extra stuff that i don't need. Getting extra for free is fine.
3) Use case is not clear. Its hard to say what today's CS guys need. In my time, we only took notebooks to college
. Will they use this on campus or home ? What will they use it for ? Don''t they have on campus computers/labs for practicals ? If college requires a laptop, don't they have recommendations ? This might give idea on what you absolutely need. Battery life / target cpu performance, gpu?, display. Form factor ? Maybe also better to atleast get some input from the student ? What about seniors ?
4) I code a lot. My own preference is very strongly towards desktop rather than laptop. I code on desktop and deploy on laptop only to get battery backup. In general, laptops have given me more trouble, are harder to fix ( sometimes not practically possible), are harder to clean ( dust can clog fans which degrades performance) and have much worse ergonomics. Desktop performance is also much stronger for the price and its easy to replace/upgrade components. My cheapo 3300x with 4c8t is faster than 8c16t 5700U for my application. So if use case is home use only, then probably desktop is a much better option imo.
5) Just basic comment on the options and writing down components. Might be good idea to verify these against what manufacturer says for model name ( sometimes still not clear). Also i am not really updated with what else is available, so someone else might have better informed view.
Asus - Seems ok, but ram is only 8gb and not clear if we can upgrade. 8gb might not be enough and not worth risking. Battery 42wh. Basic display with antiglare. 1235U. 53k
Lenovo - Unclear if ram is 8gb or 16gb. 1235U. 58k. Says 32gb max memory, but hard to say if accurate as it also says nvidia. No display info other than FHD. Did not find battery info.
Acer - 1235U. 16gb. Shitty TFT display. Resolution not clear - what is 1080p1280 X 720. Battery 45 wh. 59k
HP - 16gb. 5500U. Display FHD IPS, but low color as usual. battery 41wh. Backlit KB as bonus. 51k
None of these look that good vs the oled ones, you basically get much better oled panel for free, as long as burn in related issues can be managed. If i had to choose, probably HP will do fine and is cheaper, Single thread will be decently slower but should not really matter that much. igpus are anyway quite shit to game on so probably not a factor.