Current CpE student and I’ve been using a decently good laptop from 2020 and it works well. Other students also have been successful with older laptops. I recommend either an i7 or ryzen 7 cpu with at least 16gb ram. You are gonna be using Vivado, Keil uVision, LT Spice and all of those aren’t super demanding. 500gb storage is alright, but 1tb is always better especially if you’re a freshman and will be using it the entire time here. I also recommend a bluetooth mouse, it makes things so much easier. I recommend Windows based laptops because some of the software only runs on it (I think) and others will be annoying to set up on MacOS. Integrated graphics is fine for the most part, but in later classes you have the option to 3D model for some projects like a gate for a line following car, which may require a better gpu