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only thing that bugs me is that I am connected to the office network so some things are restricted and its a pain to do some simple things sometimes (even when its for office work!)

its an amazing laptop, I am amazed by the performance

but a lot of tech companies give it out to employees

its crazy expensive in general

oh definitely

so the search for a new laptop has been deferred :)

with M3

I was planning to buy a new one after graduating, but my office gave me a macbook pro

@JohnRennie oh cool!!

@Anonymous where do you live, if you dont mind me asking

so you can use these specs as a baseline and then select any laptop based on your budget. Maybe @JohnRennie can help you with it :D

I dont play games, but for basic stuff, programming and for most engineering softwares, it worked without any problems

just to give a perspective, I had a lennovo s-141 ideapad- an extremely cheap laptop (costed around 42K) it had 1TB SSD and 8GB RAM, intel i5 10th gen. I upgraded it to have additional 256GB SSD and 12 GB RAM (costed 7.5K) , and it did wonders.

I would suggest a laptop with 16 GB RAM, or 12GB (can be done in some laptops which have 4gB integrated into the motherboard and 4GB additional, that additonal 4GB can be replaced by an 8GB stick)

some engineering softwares like matlab do consume a lot of RAM

@Anonymous most AI ML stuff is done on cloud platforms anyways , so the local resources dont matter too much

unless you are asking something specific

@KavinIshwaran dont have anything else to say

hi

@KavinIshwaran 2024

my hometown lol

Gurgaon

yeah

US unis mostly

after having a year of work ex

I will apply for masters this year

but i was serious about that too

I actually sat for placements as a backup

@KavinIshwaran I was like that too

cool

but for placements I had to do a bit of DSA bcs ML companies also ask some DSA qs sometimes. so I grinded leetcode for a couple months in my 7th semester

I also didnt do CP at all , just focused on my ML projects and Robotics

i enjoyed the math qs but couldnt be bothered with DSA

@KavinIshwaran i was like that in my first year lol

its great

so I had to program a bunch of stuff while also figuring out the electronics

I did a lot of robotics in college

coding is fun too

@KavinIshwaran nice

@KavinIshwaran great choices

honestly its good that youre not in the CP and CS rat race. People who had their heart set on core electronics actually had a great placement season, bcs they benefitted from less competition

do projects , maintain a good CGPA, and also try for some research internships. Try and get something published, that will look good on the masters application

doing chemE just for the tag can backfire

@KavinIshwaran thats a great choice

and build your profile for higher studies if you like core electronics

which college?

all the best!!

@Wolgwang ahhh been there

@Wolgwang whats this?

@Wolgwang great, how about you