I plan to start a masters of financial engineering program in the fall. Does anyone have any recommendations for laptops? Will I even need to run large programs on my laptop? Should I should be concerned about using my personal computer to work on algorithms. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
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Financial engineering would mean quantitative finance using some algorithms, VBA and such.
I recommend Lenovo T series, sony vaio or toshiba (assemblers which have the least percentage of defects). Dual core or Quad core would be fine, 2.4 ghz minimum with at least 8gb DDR (multitasks, windows 8...) even if 4 could be sufficient today. Oh, you should also prefer a SSD, which is pretty fast and a way more secured than mechanic ones.
If you really like MAC you can even run windows through bootcamp or a virtual machine. I say that because excel and ppt really suck on MAC (especially VBA on excel which differs from windows to mac without mentioning fonts issues on powerpoint).
My 2 cents.
i am doing a part time masters in CS, 9/10 times i code/run all my programs remotely on their linux server.
I really like my Windows 8 Vaio laptop Duo 12. It would be great for academics because it comes with a pen that can annotate PDFs and help you write on cases.
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