What is the most optimum laptop that balances affordability and power to run decently/well software like matlab or...

What is the most optimum laptop that balances affordability and power to run decently/well software like matlab or mathematica?

Any laptop with at least a 4GB 1060.

>matlab or mathematica
You really dont need a supercomputer to run these, unless you plan on doing some wacky shit
a raspberry pi can run those

Anything with 4+ physical cores with 8+GB of ram

a laptop with a fucking 1060 for matlab and mathematica?

A MacBook Pro.

I actually think of using it for material science, so I think it may be heavy use (I still don't know) but seems reasonable.

in that case a 1060 might not be crazy

Used thinkpad or new asus k series

Wondering this too desu. Every budget laptop is too darn big to be portable

Yeah I'm actually searching for prices and shit is not that cheap, being a student is a pain. Hopefully something will come up.

a celeron lenovo ideapad because it takes nothing to run that shit

Lets add Inventor to the list of software I use, now tell me if that shit dares to run it.

you sound like a student so you prolly should get a x230

No

Now you get a thinkpad, P50 or P60 is good

students should get a surface laptop, has all they need for $800

So the consensus is a thinkpad, though some of the pices seem steep.

I was thinking that but I don't know if at least Mathematica will run smoothly.

I will say everything will run smoothly on a 2.6 Ghz i5, yes

With turbo boost way higher too, it also has HD 620 graphics for running autoCAD

overpriced and restrictive

Get a desktop and remote into it when you need to run sims.

There is a EPP discount if you can find it. The most portable quad core ThinkPad is the T4X0p at 14".

>affordability
>Thinkpad

Lenovo T440P.

Not OP but I've got a chunk of money for a laptop from my uni and I'm thinking about getting that "Thinkpad 25" since I love the keyboard on my T420.

No idea what's even considered good for laptops at this point.

Shit teir bait

Not running matlab or mathematica here. Though some stuff like tensorflow do benefit from cuda

I'm not familiar with those pieces of non-free software, but you can get an X200 for around $50 on eBay and it should be pretty capable.

No joke, check Best Buy. They have sales all the time and you can find really good deals on the open box laptops.

I have an acer with a haswell i5+12 gb ram, and I can run matlab+anaconda+office at the same time without problem, you don't need anything fancy unless of course you wish to waste money

Get a gaming laptop but don't use it for games.