I'm studying business informatics and my laptop broke. I had a Dell Latitude e6430 (i7 3rd Gen, 16GB DDR3 RAM) and now need a new notebook. Since my old laptop was a present, I don't know what you need for your studies. Since we're in the online semester due to the pandemic, it is important to me to have at least a full HD display, an SSD or can be installed and programming environments such as Java Eclipse and Internet sites load quickly and are fluid. The battery should also be able to survive a day at university. It would be an advantage if I can charge the laptop with a power bank, but I don't know whether there are cheap laptops available, which you can use, for example. Can charge via USB C. My budget is a maximum of 500 euro.
I hope someone can help me a little to find a replacement.
LG and thanks in advance
For 500 euro, I would consider a used Lenovo ThinkPad. As former business devices, we're pretty stable. Most of the time you can get them with a one or two year warranty. And also configure it to a certain extent. Have a look at usedcomputer24.de z.b.
Take a look at Campuspoint.de, they have extra good deals with student discounts. Anyway, a mid-class laptop will do, but at least 16GB RAM because IDEs can eat up a lot of RAM and you have the dual-channel advantage. Regarding your power bank topic: Even if you can plug it in, there are devices that refuse to charge because of low voltage with their charging electronics and that then ultimately does not bring you anything. I'll have a look myself for recommended devices, just a moment.
Have a look https://www.notebooksbilliger.de/...ility=alle, there you can also make some adjustments…
Well, I took a look and for 500 euro I have to disappoint you, there's also something but for a computer science degree it should be something better that you can use for a longer period of time. Nevertheless, I found very good models with an extra charge of "only" 100-150 euro.
Since there's a shortage of chips, laptops with the good Ryzen processors are of course in short supply. Therefore the order of the day: be quick! The things get there very little anyway and then there's a real rush to buy them.
Here are two good laptops:
https://www.campuspoint.de/lenovocampus-ideapad-5-14alc-82lm005yge.html; 630 euro, 16GB RAM and a mid-class processor of the latest Ryzen Mobile generation. Perfect for your needs, with Windows 10 pre-installed. Should arrive on April 30th, 2021. But these are not reliable appointments and it is also uncertain whether you will get one there. As I said, be quick or maybe order now. I don't really understand their queue system anyway, but I think if you order now you will definitely get something on 04/30/21, if enough arrived. If not, cancel or contact them to find out how things are going with the delivery and whether something is going on.
Here again without Windows and in gray:
https://www.campuspoint.de/lenovocampus-ideapad-5-82lm0089ge.html; 580 euro, technically the same, but you would have to set up Windows with a USB stick (not difficult) and you can get Windows keys that do it for 5-10 euro anyway. Currently not available and there are no dates.
But that would be the best P / L laptops in the price range.
A colleague is studying pure computer science and he said when I asked him out of curiosity that the computer science course had no technical requirements. In principle, you can get everything, except for the Mac devices, you know why yourself.
Start reading here:
The thing with the Mac devices is not available to me? Why shouldn't you use this for a (business) computer science course?
