What are good laptops for college students majoring in engineering?

Little G

i will be going to college in the fall and majoring in aerospace engineering and i want to start looking into what laptop i want to get so please let me know some good laptops that i might want to consider buying.

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What ever laptop computer you get make sure it's not got windows 8 installed on it, My advice is get a system with win 7 and download linux operating system you get all the professional software free including Libre Office, which is on par with ms office 2010 with all the same features and more besides, you get free professional CAD (Computer Aided Design) software

check out this Free Open Source Software website with over 40.000 professional software packages for the Free Open Source Operating Sytems
http://sourceforge.net

for the latest January 2013 free Open Source Operating Systems check out this website
http://distrowatch.com

Is this a good basic laptop for a college student?

Chelsea

Im almost definitely going to buy this one as i can get it for less than 800 with Dell's student deals.
I just want any feedback on things i might want to upgrade/downgrade on it, or if anyones had problems with it in the past.
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Inspiron 15R
Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit
Processor New 2010 Intel® Core⢠i3-350M 2.26Gh (4 Threads, 3M Cache)
Memory 4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR3
LCD Panel 15.6" High Definition (720p) LED Display with TrueLifeâ¢
Video Card Intel® HD Graphics
Hard Drive 500GB 5400rpm
System Color Mars Black
Network Card Integrated 10/100 Network Card
Adobe Reader Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 9.0
CD ROM/DVD ROM 8X CD/DVD Burner (Dual Layer DVD+/-R Drive) - w/ Roxio Burn 1.0 8XDVDRW
Sound HD Audio 2.0 Support SRS⢠Premium Sound
Wireless Dell Wireless DW1501, 802.11 g/n 1x1 Half Mini Card
Camera Integrated 1.3M Pixel Webcam DCAM
Office Productivity Software Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2010
Antivirus Software McAfee Security Center with VirusScan, Firewall, Spyware Removal, 15-Months
Battery Lithium Ion Battery (6-Cell) â Up to 4 hours, 2 minutes of battery life*
Hardware Support Services 1 Year Basic Service Plan S1OS
Complete Care 1Yr LoJack for Laptops Theft Protection
Datasafe Dell Online Backup 2GB for 1 year

Any feedback appreciated! Thank you!
By the way i wont be doing anything special except saving a quite a bit of music and pictures to it, other than that just regular school work.
Fordry - Thank you for all the feedback. The things you mentioned were all thrown into the deal for free so i think ill keep them :]

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looks good overall, there are a couple things in the software section im noticing that you might be able to do better elsewhere with, something you would want to check. First is Microsoft Office. Home and Student is available for $125 with free shipping on amazon. If you are getting a better deal on it through Dell, Great!

The other thing is Dell's backup. Microsoft has a little known service called skydrive, 25GB of space available for backing up stuff for free. Its one of their "Live" applications. If you are paying extra for dell's backup service, its up to you but i would look into using microsoft's skydrive instead, it works seamlessly with windows.

One more thing, if you have a choice of antivirus, go with Norton over Mcafee, or if they cost money, there are free alternatives that work as well, avast, avg, and antivir are all good free antivirus programs. microsoft has a security essentials program thats a good antimalware tool as well and windows firewall is adequate for most people.

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