Recommendations as to whether a laptop is beneficial (1 Viewer)

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As the title explains, I'm just curious whether having a laptop handy would be beneficial for studies in Electrical/Telecommunications Engineering. Your opinions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Bored Of Fail 2]

As the title explains, I'm just curious whether having a laptop handy would be beneficial for studies in Electrical/Telecommunications Engineering. Your opinions would be greatly appreciated.

not really that much use.

I am a second yr electrical engineering student and a laptop will not do much at uni. There are plenty of places around the uni you go to to get a computer if you need one at uni , theres the physics study room, the red centre with the maths computers and the school of electrical eng/ telecomm has a computer room specifically for students of the school.

Engineering is very kind of "hands on" topic , you will be usually following lecture notes that the lecturer has ( hopefully) put online before your lectures. For example in maths and to a lesser extent physics you will be going through examples in the lecture and you will have to write down solutions etc. you cannot really do this very easily on a computer ( unless you have maths symbol software and can type it fast )

 

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not really that much use.

I am a second yr electrical engineering student and a laptop will not do much at uni. There are plenty of places around the uni you go to to get a computer if you need one at uni , theres the physics study room, the red centre with the maths computers and the school of electrical eng/ telecomm has a computer room specifically for students of the school.

Engineering is very kind of "hands on" topic , you will be usually following lecture notes that the lecturer has ( hopefully) put online before your lectures. For example in maths and to a lesser extent physics you will be going through examples in the lecture and you will have to write down solutions etc. you cannot really do this very easily on a computer ( unless you have maths symbol software and can type it fast )

Thank you very much.

 

[Studentleader]

Mine was good to piss off my maths lecturer last year
Lecturer: You should turn your laptop off and listen to me
Me: Okay
L: Are you going to turn it off?
Me: No
L: Suit yourself

I had the notes he was writing on the board open on the laptop lol

 

[super.muppy]

ahhhas @OP borrowing your thread ahhhas
what about for engineering/commerce at UNSW ? and also which is better suited for me IPad or Macbook Pro ?

 

[tommykins]

For engineering - pen and pad. I cannot imagine a situation where laptop > pen+pad for all the engineering courses I've done.

And why are you such a loser to apple marketing? i hate fuckwits who HAVE to say its a 'mac' and not simply 'ipad or laptop'

but i can give you the BEST option which cost less than 10 bucks - pen and pad.

 

[davidbarnes]

Do not even take your laptop to uni unless you need to finish an assignment on it or something. If you are doing science/engineering, it would be useless most of the time.

 

[miaowsha]

Do not even take your laptop to uni unless you need to finish an assignment on it or something. If you are doing science/engineering, it would be useless most of the time.

What if you do something in science that's... *gasp* not math?

 

[pwoh]

Tablet laptops are pretty useful. No messy/heavy paper to deal with. Expensive compared to normal laptop tho.