{"id":283,"date":"2023-04-21T12:33:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T15:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/engsuccess\/?p=283"},"modified":"2023-04-21T12:33:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T15:33:27","slug":"computer-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/engsuccess\/2023\/04\/21\/computer-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/engsuccess\/files\/2023\/04\/Add-a-heading-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-618\" width=\"688\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/engsuccess\/files\/2023\/04\/Add-a-heading-1.png 940w, https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/engsuccess\/files\/2023\/04\/Add-a-heading-1-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/engsuccess\/files\/2023\/04\/Add-a-heading-1-768x644.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The UPEI FSDE Welcome packet recommends 16GB of RAM on a Windows machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some recommendations from our Student Success Associates:<br><em>Best performance:&nbsp;<\/em>512 GB hard drive, 16 GB RAM, Windows 10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1682089422416_34\"><li>Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga I7 with 16 GB ram &amp; 512 GB SSD hard drive<ul><li>Through\u00a0Lenovo, on sale through Sept 13, 2020,<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Lenovo-ThinkPad-20QF000KUS-Touchscreen-Ultrabook\/dp\/B07V24DB8L\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a>~$2000<\/li><li>Through\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Lenovo-ThinkPad-20QF000KUS-Touchscreen-Ultrabook\/dp\/B07V24DB8L\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0~$2100<\/li><li>He also had a Thinkpad T430 with an i5, 8 GB ram, and a 256 GB SSD, but the 256 GB was limiting<\/li><li>Should last for your entire degree<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Most economical<\/em>&nbsp;and confirmed that it works well<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Surface Pro 7 with an i5 processor, 8 GB of RAM and 128GB of storage<ul><li>Through&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbuy.ca\/en-ca\/product\/microsoft-surface-pro-7-12-3-128gb-windows-10-tablet-with-10th-gen-intel-core-i5-8gb-ram-platinum\/13893528?cmp=knc-s-71700000055311646&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMI8qW3yrHh6wIVUsDICh0sKwcEEAQYAyABEgLBAfD_BwE&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bestbuy<\/a>, ~$1000<\/li><li>However, very little storage space for other items so you may be upgrading in a few years. I recommend increasing the specs to 16 GB of RAM and a minimum of 256 GB storage for ~$1500&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbuy.ca\/en-ca\/product\/microsoft-surface-pro-7-12-3-256gb-windows-10-tablet-with-10th-gen-intel-core-i5-16gb-ram-platinum\/13893522?icmp=Recos_4across_cstmrs_ls_vwd&amp;referrer=PDP_Reco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">through BestBuy<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Desktop<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>One SSA built a desktop:<ul><li>Processor is6 core Intel Core i5 8600k<\/li><li>36GB of DDR4 3000mhz RAM,<\/li><li>The graphics card is an Nvidia GTX 1070 8GB of VRAM,<\/li><li>2TB barracuda Hard drive paired with a 512 GB SSD<\/li><li>The operating system is Windows 10.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>If you are interested in building your own high-performing machine, too, email us at <em>engsuccess@upei.ca<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Other laptops<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>One of the SSA&#8217;s has a laptop that now works well, but had trouble with the sound card and display initially. Here are the specs: i7 Lenovo Yoga 730 with 8GB RAM and 512 GB storage.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>If you have a mac,<\/em>&nbsp;be sure you have at least 70 GB available to partition the drive, I&#8217;d recommend more like 100 GB (55 GB per&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-in\/guide\/bootcamp-assistant\/bcmp173b3bf2\/6.1\/mac\/10.13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">apple&#8217;s website<\/a>, 16 GB for solidworks, and 30 GB for any kind of storage).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UPEI FSDE Welcome packet recommends 16GB of RAM on a Windows machine. Here are some recommendations from our Student Success Associates:Best performance:&nbsp;512 GB hard drive, 16 GB RAM, Windows 10 Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga I7 with 16 GB ram &amp; 512 GB SSD hard drive Through\u00a0Lenovo, on sale through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[17,16],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/engsuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/engsuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/engsuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/engsuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/engsuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/engsuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/engsuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/engsuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/engsuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/engsuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}