Are you about to buy a new laptop for the upcoming school year? Well in this
video we go over the top five laptops for engineering students in 2017 a 1%
Heyy 1% nation i'm Jake Voorhees and you are watching episode 28 of the 1% engineer show
where we empower young engineers to rise to the top 1% of their career
choosing the right laptop can seem like a daunting decision this is why I made
this video to give you some guidance give you some ideas tell you what to
look for in a laptop so you can pick the best product for you
I know a lot of you guys are going to understand what makes a good laptop
versus a medium laptop versus a smaller less powerful but maybe portable laptop
but really quickly let's go over a couple facts about computers a lot of
people think they need a big fancy video card or something like this but the
reality is for an engineering laptop you just want it to be fast you just need
plenty of hard drive space you probably want an SSD so you need to concern
yourself with CPU the processor you need to make sure you have plenty of RAM
probably 16 gigs at least 8 gigs of ddr3 RAM today it's nice to have a
solid-state drive so your operating system is on that and your programs are
on that but all of your files your storage your lab stuff your music your
videos is on another hard drive that's most likely internal you probably have
an external hard drive as well but you don't need some big fancy video card if
you plan on doing a lot of gaming like I did in school the big Diablo 2 player
back in the day Starcraft so if you're going to be involved with a lot of that
you should probably get a good video card along with your laptop for example
not just onboard video which is not going to support a 3d engine very well
otherwise you don't really need it you just want it to be fast you just want a
good CPU you want good RAM plenty of hard drive screen is something that a
lot of people are confused by they're attracted to a 17 inch screen but the
reality is if you go too big it's going to be heavier and you may not be as
likely to take it out of your dorm room and that defeats the whole purpose of
getting a laptop then maybe you should get a desktop and you don't have any
portability but you're going to get more bang for your buck for the processing
power so consider that think about your lifestyle as a student do you live on a
big campus are you going to be walking to class or
if you drive or ride your bike maybe you're a little more likely to want a
bigger laptop because you're not going to actually be carrying it and lugging
around like hiking up mountains or whatever people do who go to college in
the mountains so let's jump right into it guys here the top five laptops are
engineering students in 2017 enjoy I want to let you guys know that this
video is written by Roberto el djem from turbo futurecom and I'm making the video
version of it let's jump right into it with laptop number one HP Envy 17 T as
an ultra HD display 17-inch monitor starts at about nineteen seventy five
seven ten Intel i7 processor with at least 16 gigs of RAM so it's a pretty
good deal comes with a hard drive that you can choose between 120 and 1000 gigs
we'll highly recommend that you get more storage space the best recommendation
like mentioned in the intro is for you to get the 500 gig SSD plus the eight
gigs of additional RAM that way you have 16 console with an Nvidia 950 M graphics
card so that's going to give you a little bit extra boost if you're playing
games or if you are rendering things in 3d spaces so it's pretty solid and it
comes with Windows 10 64 bit next up we have the Asus video book pro this Asus
comes with the six generation I 5 processor with 256 gig SSD drive also
comes with a one terabyte hard drive along with that SSD some of the key
components here that it's 4k ready has a pretty fast Nvidia graphics card with it
it has a USB type-c port which is extra fast in addition to its USB 3.0 ports
has a backlit keyboard and Asus is cool because it comes with no junks no extra
third-party programs just Microsoft verified the Microsoft Store version for
the vivió book is 779 3 the lenovo y 700 this is a touch laptop for those of
you who are into that powerful lightweight version so for students who
live on large campuses or maybe walking it's a really good idea has a dedicated
2 gigabyte graphics card power by Nvidia to 960m and it has a hybrid
SSD drive the Y 700 comes in at about nine hundred and thirty dollars again
this is an all arounder because it is a 15 inch screens a little extra light
weight touchscreen is cool so for those of you who are into that great call for
the Acer Aspire 15 gaming laptop this comes in at $9.99 it's a mid priced high
powered laptop it's got 16 gigs of DDR 4 RAM has really strong battery life for
those of you who are on the move and want to be really taking advantage of a
powerful computer comes with the NVIDIA GTX 1050 TI graphics cards so this thing
is souped up for you gamers out there free mechanical engineers who are going
to be using SolidWorks and anyone else is going to be using animation
environments this is a good laptop is a good option for you and 5 v recommended
laptop for 2017 is the Dell XPS 15 has a true 4k HD monitor so for you guys are
into Netflix and really like to watch a lot of videos this is a good choice for
you comes with Windows 8.1 so that's a consideration here if you want Windows
10 that does not come with this laptop it only has 8 gigs of DDR 4 but ddr4 Ram
is a lot faster than ddr3 so I would say that's ok it comes with the i7 CPU and
also a half a terabyte so 500 gig SSD drive I want to also mention that the
XPS 15 has the NVIDIA 960 M so it has a dedicated card for people who again are
going to be gaming or doing anything three-dimensional animating rendering
things like that Hey 1% nation I hope you enjoyed that video about the top 5
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