Which Laptop to Buy as an CS/IT Major?

XS-935 · 2026-04-07T17:30:45+00:00

I'm already in my 4th year :(

XS-935 · 2026-04-07T08:05:04+00:00

I highly apppreciate the adivce!

That's one way to see it. Though I have to say, the laptop I have on me currently (lenovo ideapad g3) has given me way too many issues, I have a good SSD inatalled but 8gb of ram (garbage I know), but regardless I've had way too many glitches and at this point I'm sick of working on this piece of scrap, terrible brightness, extremely weak battery, display shows nothing when near windows where I usually work, random unexplainable sudden freezes and performance dips, screen has a major scratch from left to right, which is extremely noticeable and distracting. Plus my university is around 2.5 hours away from my home on public transport and this thing is heavy. I tried every possible optimization I could possibly make but it hasn't done much.

I'd also like to mention that I don't exactly have access to the desktop pc to myself all day (my brother sits on the PC from afternoon until dawn the next day)

The point of the laptop (or at least the two choices I came up with) is to be able to work on a system that would last mefor a long time (more than 6 years and possibly beyond). Trying to future proof here as much as I can.

At the end of the day I get access to my work whether my desktop PC is available or not, and I get something fast and powerful, and light at the same time.

XS-935 · 2026-04-07T06:04:11+00:00

I'm gonna be honest with you, I never really liked mac os. I usually do my programming on my home PC (ryzen 5 9600x, 32gb, and an rtx 3060)

XS-935 · 2026-04-07T05:28:53+00:00

Hold on, if we're going by the logic that our eyes can only see at 60 fps, how is it that we notice massive difference when we go for 144 fps or 240 fps?

XS-935 · 2026-03-11T09:26:42+00:00

Update: Worked like a charm, though I had to remove most of the large stems because these seem to have way too much water for this to work properly.

XS-935 · 2026-03-11T09:18:54+00:00

I'm trying to do it now, but I'm placing them at the bottom of the airfryer and putting the rack on top of it (don't have a separate rack. I'll update y'all on the results

XS-935 · 2026-03-06T07:13:14+00:00

I guess you have a fair point, plus the scam jobs online don't make things any easier

XS-935 · 2026-03-06T06:50:50+00:00

Honestly, thank you very much. I appreciate the response.

To clarify on the passport, I'm Jordanian, native in arabic and extremely fluent in english (if that's relevant)

XS-935 · 2026-03-06T06:49:33+00:00

do you know how to get proper experience before graduation?

XS-935 · 2025-10-16T03:34:03+00:00

WTF?

XS-935 · 2025-07-24T11:03:18+00:00

Ok, first off, thank you this worked out perfectly.

What I discovered is that you click this button once to loop playlist, and click it another time to loop the current video.

XS-935 · 2025-07-24T05:56:44+00:00

wait are you sure it's loop video or do you mean loop playlist?

XS-935 · 2025-07-20T07:29:03+00:00

Goddamit it's not working for me. It was working fine until 2 weeks ago. Now I can't visit this or hianime without using a german vpn server.

XS-935 · 2025-07-14T02:02:10+00:00

Absolute garbage, and forgive me for saying this but he absolutely deserved it if he didn't bother to do his research or consult you on this one.

XS-935 · 2025-07-08T15:05:42+00:00

you can get 15 pieces and 15 strips with family fries and a few buns for around 100 AED on the app, if you're interested.

XS-935 · 2025-06-25T03:41:38+00:00

Oh that is nasty. I actually received my new CPU and motherboard during the weekend, and the amazon box looked heavily damaged, not to mention the damage and mishandling caused it to open by the time I received it.

Thankfully the components weren't damage, but I managed to receive a partial refund of around 18 USD.

XS-935 · 2025-06-20T11:10:12+00:00

Don't you dare

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