>>51752543
Pencil and paper nignog

what are you going to school for?

>>51752592
just as a portable computer, not to use in class.

>>51752609
Lets say engineering.

>>51752639
My friend has this microsoft laptop that can also be used as tablet.
Looked bretty gud if you're ok with windows

Laptop.

>>51752639
In that case, definitely laptop.

>>51752794
>>51752820
Why exactly? Is it because of labs?

>>51752543
Laptop/Notebook something cheap, get a linux distro and enjoy.

Engineering will need a good laptop if you don't want to spend all of your free time in labs or some proffs prostitution ring for lab access. I say get a strong laptop. Unless you have your own place, then get a cheap ass tablet for class use and a powerful desktop for your home.

>>51752832
Yes

You can do more things with paper than a tablet

>>51752845
w-what

>>51752832
>Engineering

Laptop. First up, you'll seriously appreciate a proper keyboard. Sure the surface may be a thing, but it's no keyboard. There's also the issue of platform.
Depending on your Engineering direction you'll likely require some field related software that's unlikely to work properly on tablet architectures.

I currently have a shitty laptop so I want to buy a decent gaming pc and a cheap laptop for university, is this enough or will I need a powerfull laptop like a lot of people tell me to get? For example for software science.

>>51752870
How powerful, though?

>>51752832
Tablet for any sort of work is a meme.

>>51752905
Right, but why do you need a laptop? The only reason I could think of is labs.

>>51752895
Which engineering direction would you theoretically be going for?
There's fairly heavy software in most directions as soon as you're dealing with simulations or 3D rendering.
Mechanical engineers will need CAD software and that's not very lightweight y'know.
First thing that comes to mind for Electrical Engineers is PLC software like Siemens TIA Portal which also requires a decent machine to run decently quickly.

>>51752940
poopies

Just let me make this clear, I'm not in uni quite yet. But I am an Electrical technician and our software requirements don't differ too much, judging from talks with friends that are in uni right now.

>>51752883
You don't necessarily need a stupidly powerful laptop, just have something with recent hardware. An i3/i5 with 8GB of RAM and a dedicated GPU is more than enough. Render times are gonna obviously be a bit longer, but it's good enough for learning.

Professionals use workstations, people on our level use 'decent' machines and nobody buys i7 turbo gaymen laptops. The performance advantage doesn't make that much of a difference, that point is just bleeding money.

What you should however look for is a good resolution.
Since I'm working with a shitty 1366x768 laptop I have a serious need for an external screen if I'm doing anything. Just drawing simple PCB designs is painful on a single 15" screen with a horrid resolution.
I'd imagine 3D design only gets worse.

>>51753121
ah, thanks

Thinkpad x series, though a surface works too.

>>51753121
fuck.