CS college student, I have about $500 for a new computer. Should i get a laptop or desktop?
CS college student, I have about $500 for a new computer. Should i get a laptop or desktop?
Joseph Gomez
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Leo Bell
Get a gf
Aaron Brooks
buy weed and use the computer labs
Mason Powell
get a gun and shoot yourself
Brandon Bennett
lmao this
Christian Russell
Do you live on campus? For some things at my uni, I need to be on school wifi, and I live offcampus, therefore having a laptop is easier to work with. Also if you're a fag like me and enjoy going other places like coffee shops to do homework besides the bedroom all day long, a laptop is also nice.
Else, desktop is cheaper.
Cameron Green
>Also if you're a fag like me and enjoy going other places like coffee shops to do homework besides the bedroom all day long
lmao you're the worst kind of "programmer"
Wyatt Brooks
>500 computer
just get an iPad, anything below 800 is garbage
Matthew Adams
>where you sit determines your programming skill
Go fetch you programming socks pajeet
Michael Cox
Laptop for comfy programming (and /gif) in the bedroom
Alexander Edwards
laptop, because you can't afford a desktop.
not now.
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or wait for ryzen apu.
or intel with amd vega.
Henry Green
thank u for ur suggestion but im not looking for a vidya laptop i don't play games much, i know pc is better but and i already have a ps4
Connor Jackson
Used Thinkpad.
T430
Spend the rest on upgades and drugs
Jordan Brown
I literally did that, no regrets
Brandon Rogers
Laptop. Your desktop can only be at home (where you usually are not), your laptop is always with you.
Brody Brown
Buy pic-related. Price in AUD btw.
Easton Morgan
*become a neet trap
Aiden Garcia
Pic related ($230 USD @perks) +
BenQ GL Series monitor ($130 USD) +
Leopold FC980M mechanical keyboard ($120 USD) +
Logitech M100 mouse ($10 USD) +
SteelSeries QcK mouse pad ($10 USD)
TOTAL: $500 USD
Caleb Brown
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Wyatt Brooks
mac mini
Easton Lewis
Where the fuck you getting it for 230?
John Morris
Used Thinkpad
Caleb Hernandez
Perks at Work. Check the ThinkPad general thread for the URL and code.
Justin Brown
Dell Vostro
Zachary Hernandez
>drop all $500 on a massive xerox machine
>double your investment first term by undercutting school prices for printing and copies
Jaxson Carter
doesn't really matter
Jonathan Hernandez
user, check if you live near a microcenter. They have great laptops there.
Benjamin Thomas
If you have to ask, you're not gonna make it. But get a laptop so you can take it to the library. (Don't bother taking it to class.)
Samuel Kelly
desktop/smart phone cybersecurity master race here. i usually use my cell phone to take notes or turn in assignments when i need to at school. modern technology is truly amazing.
Alexander Bell
thinkpad
Gavin Baker
this wtf
Camden Kelly
>I have about $500 for a new computer
lmao buy it used you skub you'll be better off
Chase King
>Leopold FC980M mechanical keyboard ($120 USD) +
This niggas on a budget and you expect him to pay the same for the god damn keyboard as the monitor?
Levi Bailey
Buy a used i5 or i7 dell Optiplex from eBay for under $200. You can possibly find it cheaper in your local Craiglist.
Mini Tower (SFF) i5
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Tower i5
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If you configure them with integrated graphics, 8gb of ram, and windows 7, you can get either of them for just $170 + free shipping.
If you buy a cheap SSD for under $70 and optionally a gtx 1030 or 1050 graphics card, you can have a great multitasking "gaming" PC for under $350. It's probably easier or upgrade to the tower though.
Jose Jones
Also if you want to install Windows 10 instead of using Windows 7, you can use the OEM windows 7 product key that comes with the Dell computer after you install it. So you can have a easy legal copy of windows 10 instead of searching for sketchy activators.
I don't even need another desktop computer. It's just fun researching "what-if" budget builds.
Michael Bell
This is probably fine. Spend only about $60 to get a 120GB ssd and a sata-usb adapter. You can then set it up with some portable software or just set it up as a bootable medium. You'll be left with $440 to use on something else later down the line. This is assuming your campus computers have decent specs that don't make them horrible to run on.
Christian Foster
laptop and put loonix on it unless you are going to need to do windows shit on it for group projects
Kevin Parker
>all these retards suggesting a desktop
It's like you people have never attended college or something
Noah Murphy
this exact photo is posted on a craigslist ad in my area for "free removal of computers"
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think its legit?
Daniel Miller
A gf doesn't cost $500
Anthony Brooks
>CS college student
>can't decide what computer is best for him
just save yourself a lot of time, money, and grief. give up now. you are not going to make it.
Logan Morgan
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