I have been given the choice of picking between the following laptops as my christmas/going away to university present(electrical engineering major), and obviously less expensive is better.
>Surface 3 4gb ram/128gb emmc, with keyboard and pen - $673
>Surface Pro 3 i3, with keyboard and pen - $751
>Surface Pro 4 m3 or i5, with keyboard - $1004(m3) or $1101(i5)
>Dell XPS 13 4gb i5 - $865
>MacBook Air 13 4gb i5 - $865
>ThinkPad T450 4gb i5 - $818
>ThinkPad Yoga 14 - $962
>inb4 underage faggot getting presents from mommy
I'm 20 go fuck yourself you 16 year old faggots my mom can beat up your moms kill yourselves
Thank you :)
The T450 would be nice as I know it would last and I could easily get inside of it to upgrade or repair, but it's also easily the heaviest and thickest choice. At the moment, it is my default unless the Surface 3 or the SP4 is just fucking amazing and I'd be retarded not to have it because of whatever reasons. I don't know, which is why I'm asking all of you right now as I have to pick today.
Post the storage and screen configs for the laptops. The t450 is not worth it if you're getting a 1600x900 TN panel and spinning storage.
>>51963411
Yeah, that's the issue. The T450 is the shittiest i5 configuration with the 1366x768, 500gb HDD and 4gb ram, and I think it's actually overpriced compared to what they actually go for from lenovo.
All of the surfaces are 128gb storage and 4gb ram with their nice screens that they all come with. the surface 3 is only 1920x1280 but that's still nice on a 10.8", not sure if that would be nice as a primary computer, though and I'd probably rather put in the extra cash for that SP3 i3 since it has a much nicer resolution and screen size, actual SSD instead of emmc, much faster charging time etc..
the XPS and the MBA are sort of the same flavor. XPS gives you a nicer screen, while the MBA gives you 2 more hours on the battery life.(14 hours total) but using a MBA in an electrical engineering major is probably not that fun.
I actually don't know anything about the Yoga 14, but I think if I was going for a thinkpad, I'd rather just stick with the real deal.
Thinkpad T450. If you're EE then more ports are better for the old tech you might be interfacing with. Sometimes labs use RS-485 or RS-232 on com ports for controlling robots or reading analog signals but I might be old now and maybe they use USB. The keyboard is the comfiest out of all of the laptops you've posted. If not that one go full consumer and get the Macbook Air, you wouldn't regret either purchase much if at all.
The yoga 14 really isn't worth it unless you're lugging around a Cintiq right now. All of the surface laptops are not comfy typers. You'll need a bluetooth keyboard if you take them.
My 2 cents.
>>51963478
Yeah, I'm really not considering the Yoga at this point.
Get Surface pro 4 i5, or Macbook air.
get a chromebook and ssh/vnc into your home pc
>>51964089
I don't have a desktop as I had to sell it.
>>51964059
>MBA over a T450 or even xps
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>>51964138
no benefit over a T450
and not everyone wants to smell like poop
>>51964138
I've already owned one and did not like it.
>>51964138
nice meme
which fucking i3's or i5's are we talking about? U,M, whatever?
MBA is your choice here anyway, if you want something to fuck around with just buy some used thinkpad shit later and do whatever the fuck you want with it.
>>51964405
They're all ULV. This will be my primary device for university. I currently use an R61i.
>>51963366
>University
Make sure you're not wasting your time anon
>>51963366
Why these models exactly? There are some decent snsv laptops in that price range.
>>51964468
These are what caught my eye and what fits in the budget, which is about $1110 on a gift card.
x250 with ssd
>>51964468
snsv is garbage
>>51964513
If it was available where I'm buying this, I would consider it.
>>51963366
Libreboot X200
>>51964550
juicy maymay
>>51964515
so as lenovo thinkpads m8
>>51964572
yeah, but snsv is 100% trash. they were good like 10 years ago
>just like thinkpads
Do electrical engineers need that much processing power for anything? If not, ask for a $200-$300 laptop and spend the rest on getting a desktop going.
>>51964607
what the FUCK are you guys talking about
>>51965552
Asus equals snsv upside down
>>51965507
None of these laptops have very powerful processors
>>51965803
Oh yeah I didn't even notice that, even more reason not to spend more than $300 on anything. I figured that you would be getting more than an i3 for $751
>>51965969
the i5 SP4 is perfectly good for what it costs tbqh
2015 MBA 13 is literally the best laptop ever made
>>51964121
Especially when you can get a pro for around the same as the other options anyway.
>>51968834
you mean a surface pro 4 of course
>>51968871
Na MBPro. At least in the UK, the entry level macbooks are about 70 quid more than the t450 and about the same as a Surface Pro with a similar processor.
What about the Lenovo E460 or E560 models with 1080p IPS and SSDs? Cheaper than T450
>>51970139
that's faggot shit
