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i5 or i7 for university?
- Thread starter Swiftz
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Very dependant on what you're doing. My office laptop is an ivybridge i5 with 16gb memory, and runs VS without problems. Typically have 2-6 solutions open at once, plus some SQL query windows. Compilation times are around 3-5 seconds, for fairly serious MVC projects.
Unless you're doing graphics-heavy stuff, you don't need a quad core, imho. The only time I would think it would matter is if the uni provides some heavyweight libraries that you're expected to compile into your own code.
(My student laptop was a Celeron 600... still enough to play Star Wars Pod Racer during lectures
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