I have often heard that you should buy a laptop for studying (just to be able to write down faster, I guess). But there I ask myself the question: Is not it also quite old-fashioned, if one writes everything by hand?
Or is that so much in my studies (I know, study-dependent) that you can't do it for the most part with normal writing and can't keep up with it?
Who has gained experience with it?
I have never typed in the lectures on the laptop, but still had one for the organization of lecture material, programming exercises and other stuff. Did not see so many people singing, more commented with a tablet existing PDFs, but comes on the lecture. If you do not have a laptop or a desktop, it gets pretty awkward and difficult.
So except for special modules with e.g. Never used my laptop with Excel programming. And then we sat there sometimes just twos if someone had forgotten his or why it was not always there.
One had simply no and had seminar papers, etc. Always written on the PC at home, so she was often in such work my partner.
Scripts were always printed with us or the lecturer recommended us his book (which was almost the script). Only a few have received it as a pdf, often already after the lecture.
So I wrote old fashioned by hand on my block or the script.
Of course, it always depends on the university and the subject of study. As an architect you should already have one and a good one that can handle the programs and complex drawings as well. If the university provides everything digitally, you can see for yourself if you use scripts via pdf and comment on the laptop or tablet or print them and do it by hand.
The laptop you need in a lecture rather rare.
It's just handy for the whole online portal, scripts etc., if you use e.g. Wi-Fi in the building and quickly what you need. Even so, a laptop for the home is very convenient because you are just more flexible than with a smartphone.
In the lecture, you should always write down with your hand, because it is then always better in the head imprinted, as a typewriter (which often tends to do other things besides). So: You should always have one, or have. But you do not need it in the lecture - to write down.
