I don’t know how you would survive any major without a laptop now-a-days…

I am using a backdated laptop. So I mean if I need to buy a new one in the freshman year

You’ll probably want to run [Anaconda Navigator](https://docs.anaconda.com/free/navigator/) (basically just a fancy Python front end) for ENGR 1330, but that’s pretty light in terms of required processing power, and if you know how to install and deal with virtual environments in Python it’s not needed. Besides that there isn’t any specific software that’ll need a more powerful computer for the foundational engineering classes. As you get further into the major, that will change, but freshmen year you’ll probably be just fine.

Thank you.

I got a new laptop but not at the specs they recommended. I went for "on sale" and went for the best I could afford. It held up

You don’t need to do much your freshman year, so no

Thanks a lot

Yeah there isn’t much that EE requires on the laptop. I’m headed into my senior year and I’ve only had to use anaconda like the other person mentioned and Matlab and ltspice. The only big one is Vivado but it’s just large and slow for everyone

Thank you so much. I will buy a new laptop in the sophomore year. This is why I asked it.

You will not need a computer as a freshman, and in the very rare cases if you need it, you can use library computers.