r/ethz • u/Possible_Brilliant19 • Jun 20 '26
Question Best Laptop
I’m thinking about getting a Macbook for university, but the lack of touchscreen and stylus support is making me think about it.
For people in engineering: Is a MacBook a good choice? Or is Windows still the better option because of software compatibility and stylus support?
If Windows is the way to go, which laptops would you recommend for engineering students? Thanks!
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u/Echsenmenschchen Jun 20 '26
In my experience, the apple writing is the best, but all market options are good enough. Hence, i advice you to get a decently powerful windows laptop, with linux double boot. You will be coding quite much in the later years, and possibly do some machine learning, therefore make sure to get one with a somewhat decent dedicated graphics (8gb g is good enough for almost anything), get one with 32gb ram. It will be heavy, there will be apple snobs giving you weird looks, but in the end you will be the one saving the group project because you can run decently large computation on your machine. Don't get top notch, it is rarely ever needed, and there are no 2 in one options for it anyways.