6 best notebooks for study

The Chinese manufacturer, who was able to take the first place in the world market for laptop sales in 2016, and only in the past lost a few percent to Hewlett-Packard, undoubtedly deserves attention if we need an inexpensive laptop: here the strong positions of the Chinese are indisputable. This model with a 15.6-inch screen is quite compact and convenient, weighing 1.87 kg with a good battery capacity: it lasts up to 7 hours, with a quick charge function that will allow you to “feed” your laptop along the way. For 15 minutes, as the manufacturer promises, a laptop in the off state can charge enough for two hours of work. Well, in the rushes between audiences, you can manage not to let the laptop get hungry.

The choice of processors in the line is from the “gag” of the Pentium-4415U, with which the assembly turns out to be the most budget-friendly (within 25,000), to the i7-8550U, presented by Intel less than a year ago and very capable of overpowering. But at the "blue" camp the light did not converge, and Lenovo also offers a line on AMD processors - and here AMD E2-9000 acts as the budget minimum, while AMD Ryzen 7 2700U is already in the "top".

"Designer" continues when choosing a display - you can save money by taking a modification with a simple 1366 x 768 screen, or you can add it to the Full HD IPS matrix. In the same way, a standard keyboard can be replaced with a modified backlit one, you can choose the capacity and type of drive (from a terabyte HDD to a pair of “hard” and SSD PCIe), the amount of RAM, and a video accelerator. On versions with Intel processors, the choice is from the most budgetary, where only the video subsystem of the CPU is used, to the discrete GTX1050, laptops with “red” processors, again, in the cheapest version use the APU graphics, while in the “top” Radeon 540.

Assembled laptop at a good level, easy to use and reliable. In short, he deserved a clear leadership in the ranking of the best laptops for study.

Gaming laptop for math? No, we were not crazy, and the MSI office did not give the author bribes (alas ...). For resource-intensive software, we need a fast processor and memory corresponding in capacity and speed, and complex calculations have been performed on video cards using CUDA for ten years, and scientific articles with titles like “Solving Computational Fluid Dynamics Problems Using Nvidia CUDA Technology” are surprising.Familiar to all students of the relevant departments of MATLAB, for example, is perfectly friendly with the calculations on video cards. No wonder that farms from video cards in institutes were collected even before schoolchildren from all over the country rushed into mining (which is essentially math and is algorithmically linked). So, we need to fit into a reasonable budget framework a laptop with a decent amount of memory, a fairly fast processor and a “green” video card, and the offer from MSI turns out to be very useful here.

The i7-7700HQ processor is one of the recognized leaders in performance among notebook “stones”, both in integer calculations and when working with a floating comma. Let's give him ten Fourier transforms of ten and go to memory - the laptop uses up to 32 gigabytes of DDR4-2400. The video card is the GTX 1050 Ti, which is quite productive and does not yet turn into a “furnace”.

Of course, loading the system with calculations "to the eyeballs" will have to face the same problems as during games - the battery, whose capacity is only 41 watt-hour, will be drained before our eyes, and fans with a heart-rending howl will start to eject hot air from the case. . Alas, this is the inevitable retribution for computing power.

As we sought to fit into a more or less budgetary framework (and MSI was already a bit out of them), we had to make several sacrifices on the performance altar. The case of the brands, and noticeably weak, the backlash of the lid is noticeable in the notebook out of the box. Hard disk by modern standards is not the most nimble, and the display viewing angles are too small.

DELL INSPIRON 5770 continues our ranking of the best laptops for study. Here we will have to sacrifice compactness - working with assemblies in SolidWorks or Compass on the “fifteenth” screen is inconvenient, so we will try to fit into the budget something with at least 17 inches . Here, the Dell Inspiron line will help us out again, and, unlike the 5570, the 5770's screen is not only bigger, but also better-quality - this is an IPS-matrix with FullHD resolution.

The top of the range boasts an Intel Core i7-8550U processor, which, paired with the maximum (or installed with an upgrade) 16 gigabytes of DDR4-2400, will be able to quickly process specific CAD tasks. The discrete AMD Radeon 530 video card will meet the contemptuous "phi" on the part of gamers, but the engineering software has its own requirements, which this card completely satisfies, at the same time reducing the price of the assembly. Add to this the speed of a 512-gigabyte PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD installed in the top-of-the-line assembly, and we’ll get really comfortable work with modern resource-intensive CAD systems (here the author remembered how at the Institute of AutoCAD 2001 literally pixels just 14 pixels -inch CRT monitor, and imbued with envy). Well, or add to the more affordable SSD assembly already independently with free money in the future.

The battery has a capacity of 42 watt-hours, so that the laptop can demonstrate acceptable autonomy on this "hardware". As a result, we boldly give him a recommendation: in its price category, it is best suited for the task.

Here we have requirements for the quality of the screen will be even greater than for the "techies", but I don’t want to sacrifice performance with the current requirements of design software. Of course, we didn’t write to the budget with the help of Steve Jobs as a “mast” for designers from all over the world, so we’ll have to look in the direction of simpler models (but not necessarily worse).

And, perhaps, our choice in this category of the best laptops for study will be the Acer Aspire 7 line with 17.3-inch screens. Here, the manufacturer uses a really high-quality IPS-matrix FullHD, bright, contrast, with high-quality color reproduction. Working with her is a pleasure. And the laptop still does not slow down, which, undoubtedly, this pleasure would reduce: he “thinks” in top configuration with the help of Intel Core i7-7700HQ, “on board” to 16 gigabytes of memory, and its volume can be independently increased to 32 GB - however, in our conditional budget "climbed" only the version with 8 gigabytes. Perhaps the only thing that spoils the impression is the hard disk installed on some modifications for budgetary reasons, but, fortunately, there is also the possibility to install SSD in single-drive configurations, and versions with combined data storage. In this configuration, you definitely will not have any complaints about the speed of work, since the graphics card is very worthy by design standards (GTX 1050).

However, please note that laptops that fit into our conventional budget are either weaker in hardware than the selected build, or instead of the pre-installed tens, work under Linux. If you already have a license for Windows, it can be transferred to a new laptop, or, at worst, free of charge .