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Good laptop for Computer Science major?

jrodmanlive

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Dec 8, 2012
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I'm currently going into my 2nd year of college and am wondering what laptop I should get for the next 3 years of school. I already have a desktop build at home (i7-4790k, 980ti, 16gb of ram, etc.) in which I can do a lot work on. My concern is that I'm going to spend $800+ on a laptop that I don't even need since I already have a powerful rig at home. Any suggestions for a laptop would be great! :)
 
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Just get something cheap and portable.
You don't need anything beefy for coding at all - yet.
Sure you'll be doing some compiling, but it just doesn't take that long to compile the simple programs you'll start out with.
Just get something cheap and portable.
You don't need anything beefy for coding at all - yet.
Sure you'll be doing some compiling, but it just doesn't take that long to compile the simple programs you'll start out with.
 
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