I just looked up the 45 oled monitors. wow, that is not cheap. looks very nice though.
Recommend laptop computer for mechanical engineering freshman
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The coupons comes and goes, just have to occasionally check the webpages, it usually range from 40%, 45%, or 50% off, it could be posted on one of the product group pages such as https://www.dellrefurbished.com/computer-workstation or on the coupons page https://www.dellrefurbished.com/coupons
You can get it for $500 off now because they released the successor
the one I have:
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The software should be the same. At my jobs I have always been using Precision or the equivalent laptops and they are not any worse in reliability until the cooling fan is worn out. They are much heavier however and the power bricks are much bigger (230W with dock and 170W without dock) and they are loud.
There's always a lottery on whether you get a reliable or unreliable one.
I've been reading licenses are up anywhere between 400% to over 1000%. That's crazy! We're not 100% sure on what we're gonna use after VMware yet, but there's a few ones we're looking at to also replace both VMware and starwind.
This. While alot of people are unfamiliar with Linux, it's heavily used for servers, cad, professional movie rendering (Think Pixar) etc.
Linux works however anything amiss it’s a project to fix it and you won’t get help as easily doing that vs Mac or Windows.
Basically the challenge is supporting it remotely.
Depends. Bentley and AutoDesk do not support windows; neither do most their extensions and additions like autoturn and project wise.
Call the schools mechanical engineering dept. What ever they tell you get a better one as they will give you the minimum specs.
Stay away from gaming laptops. You need a workstation (think desktop in a laptop).
Our son went through this 5 years ago. I got him a workstation that was about twice the specs of what the school wanted. Sucker is heavy.
He does a LOT of solid works. While he sometime had 50+ images up his never failed. All the gaming laptops the other students bought sucked in this application and students had to buy a second computer saving nothing.
He still uses his laptop and this is year 5-6 on it. Just needed a new battery once. His laptop is better than anything the plant gave him or anyone there uses, so he is the favorite. Gets him all the extra work
Stay away from gaming laptops. You need a workstation (think desktop in a laptop).
Our son went through this 5 years ago. I got him a workstation that was about twice the specs of what the school wanted. Sucker is heavy.
He does a LOT of solid works. While he sometime had 50+ images up his never failed. All the gaming laptops the other students bought sucked in this application and students had to buy a second computer saving nothing.
He still uses his laptop and this is year 5-6 on it. Just needed a new battery once. His laptop is better than anything the plant gave him or anyone there uses, so he is the favorite. Gets him all the extra work
There's a coupon for 48% off any dell precision laptop if anyone is interested 48% off any Dell Precision Laptop (exc. Hot Deals), free ground shipping. Use coupon code: PRECISION48 - Ends Mon. 6/10, 9 AM CT. There's some in stock with quadro rtx 5000 16gb graphics cards.
I wouldn't touch any of those on the Dell site. Either old pre-11th-generation chips or the notoriously overheating 35xx line there. Love them savings, but this is not where I'd 'save' on my child. (Aside from the general trend in the household that they need to earn their money for trinkets)
If you can wait, I'd wait for Precision 7560 or 7760 with at least i7-1180H, 32GB RAM, QHD screen and an appropriate video adapter for Solid Works kind of software. Since they do not make those with QHD you would be forced into UHD, plus extra battery packs.
Talented kids with original ideas will make do without any of that. They have powerful workstation on campus. That's a gaming computer under the "I need" guise. But if you insist, a ZBook Fury may be a good match for 5-7 grand.
If you can wait, I'd wait for Precision 7560 or 7760 with at least i7-1180H, 32GB RAM, QHD screen and an appropriate video adapter for Solid Works kind of software. Since they do not make those with QHD you would be forced into UHD, plus extra battery packs.
Talented kids with original ideas will make do without any of that. They have powerful workstation on campus. That's a gaming computer under the "I need" guise. But if you insist, a ZBook Fury may be a good match for 5-7 grand.
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Congrats on your likely recent HS grad!!!!!
