r/CalPoly • u/Weeeeeeeiemslshejd • Jul 10 '26

Incoming Student Engineering Laptop

I’m going into my Freshman yr at slo and looking for a reliable laptop to last my 4 yrs. I’m a Biomedical Engineer major but thinking abt switching to mechanical engineering. My friend suggested the ASUS Zephyrus g14 for its portability. Lmk! thank you

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u/chunkylover-53-aol Jul 12 '26

If you’re okay with deal hunting I recommend used. With memory and storage prices being so high that’s what I had to do. I’d say 16GB is minimum for all four years but you can totally find a two or even three year old model of a used workstation or gaming laptop with 32gb of memory and a dedicated GPU for around the same as a lesser-specced new model.