re: Laptop recommendations for undergrad engineering

My son is heading to UT for Engineering and we just went with a dell. What we learned from our daughter last year is that you do need the cores and memory for better excel performance but not necessarily a huge hard drive.

Go sad or better for sure.

Now if your son is going to use it for gamin too, then you will need great graphics and memory and hard drive space I guess. If he stays in engineering though, I am not sure when he will have a lot time to game :)