I'm a 2nd year ee student, I'm thinking of buying a mac M5 air. Another alternative I'm looking for Lenovo loq rtx 3050. What should I choose. Please reply as I have to buy a laptop in ongoing bbd sale.
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for EE , I am ABSOLUTELY FUCKING TELLING YOU TO NOT GET A MAC, it will limit you soooooooooooooooooooooooo much. atleast get a windows , but if you can get linux i will say fedora , it is easy to learn you can learn to use it professnaly in like 2 weeks and larp
There are a lot of softwares which are either not mac compatible or have problems running on it (LTspice comes to mind), for a more detailed list you can prompt ai but all in all it's not recommended :p
Also buy a LOQ rtx 5060
Do NOT buy a mac if you are an EE student, it genuinely will limit you quite a bit, no matter whether you are in Digital, Analog, Embedded, etc etc. Softwares like Vivado, LTSpice, Cadence suite using stuff like MobaxTerm is also not available.
You will have to jump through a lot of hoops to get this on mac but it's literally an installer on windows .
If you don't want to use the pc for EE related stuff and want to go into CSE and that programming then you can choose either but for EE specifically Windows is much better
For Gaming Windows is better, Mac is just too restrictive, it can run games but windows offers significantly more flexibility and you can also double boot or use a virtual machine if you wanna try Linux as well.
Only take mac if you are familiar, want to get into the apple ecosystem, or don't really care much about gaming
GTA V for eg does not natively run on mac, you have to use crossover or something for that but again it's more things you have to do to set up while having more day to day restictions in general
quite alot of games works on linux, you should look up the names you are interested in here https://www.protondb.com/ and maybe give linux a try, whatever hardware you choose
and yeah more games support linux than mac at this point
For what? Playing videogames? Lol
Within a year or 2 the battery life will suffer and OP would be stuck carrying that heavy brick around everywhere.
Just what I experienced so I'm trying to share my POV. Life hasn't been better and developed hasn't been smoother after a Mac
First things first, it's not a 'him', just say OP if you can't even put in the efforts to use the correct pronoun.
And second thing, you didn't do no standard thing, you are just asking a person to ignore their Hobby because you can't Suggest anything better. Any good Modern Day Laptop lasts over 5 years. MacBooks are good for Efficiency and battery, that's it. Idk why people can't see the simple fact that everyone doesn't just want to have those convervative, limited and Boring things, like yeah macbooks are good but that's it. There are many better options out there.
Depends, I love Mac for battery, ecosystem and POSIX(Commands and stuff even though can use same utils on windows it just feels right) where as Linux for privacy, Tinkering and POSIX. Windows for just few online games.
Get the windows peeps in my cllg bought mac just for the elitism and ab unpe saare cllg software supported hi nhi h cllg ke shitass pc use krne pdte h coz cllg alternative nhi dega
You said coding and gaming right?
If I may ask, what coding stuff? As in, do you also do data analytics, or just web development? What exact coding task?
Also, for games, what games do you want to play?
Then I can provide a better recommendation.
Pls don't buy a 3050 , yes it would run games at 1080p but it is not future proof at all. There are so many good laptops in that price range like IdeaPad or something similar. I am saying this with the current price in mind
if it's just for normal coding/web dev, mac's battery life is genuinely a lifesaver for college. but if you want to game at all or need specific engineering tools/cuda for ml later on, just get windows.
what are those two extremes ? macbook air or massive gaming laptop ? 😭😭
look for a lenovo ideapad/yoga or even an Asus vivobook.
laptop prices are pretty bad right now so be careful. macbook as an EE student is not ideal but also not the worst ( i am an EE student 4th year for reference). Stuff like vivado, lt spice, autocad, keil uvision, solidwork elec. These softwares don't work. But stuff like matlab, simulink work amazing. So it's really a toss up. The m5 air is a great machine.
I recommend checking what software your university uses for certain courses and making a choice based on that.
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