<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Never considered MacBook Pro? Not sure if he is into Hackathon. I used to watch a live video of Hackathon in SF and were curious of what laptops the participants used. Overwhelmingly majority were MacBooks, some were running Linux. Don't remember I saw any Windows. </div><div>With that said, MacBook is the opposite of economical.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 1:01 AM William Park via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Have you asked him what he'd like? I mean, if he's going into CS, then<br>
he would have pretty good idea what he wants and what's out there. Last<br>
time I bought laptop/desktop was more than 10 years ago.<br>
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On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 01:45:13AM -0400, Ushe T wrote:<br>
> <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><style> body { font-family: "Calibri","Slate Pro",sans-serif,"sans-serif"; color:#262626 }</style> </head> <body lang="en-US"><div>Hello Everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>I need your help and advice. My young brother is in University now.</div><div>We need to purchase a Laptop that is very good with high performance gaming and works well with language programing.</div><div><br></div><div>He is taking computer science ???in the University.</div><div><br></div><div>So far we have: the following options:</div><div>1) Asus Tuf i5 FX504GM</div><div>2) Acer Nitro i5 Nvidia GTX 1060</div><div><br></div><div>If anyone has better recommendations they are welcome.</div><div><br></div><div>Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.</div><br>Regards <div><br></div><div>Ushe</div></body></html><br>
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