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Originally Posted by adciv
4) i5 Processor (we sometimes do vision processing, considering lowering to i3)
5) SSD is nice to have but not required since we try not to use this for programming during competitions.
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Don't ever judge a laptop by whether the stickers say i3 i5 or i7. The Intel I line has been around since roughly 2008 and has gone through 6 major generations since. A 1st generation i7 is a lot worse then a current generation i3. The big thing to look at although with the I mark is what generation it is. If they are from the same generation higher is better for the most part but again you have to be careful.
As for the ssd the ssd has nothing to do with coding. It's the most important spec I look for in a driver's station because I have been the person on the field who had to restart the laptop and spent 4 minutes doing so because we were using a hard drive. There was one time we actual got lent a laptop because ours was taking so long to boot. You can get a 60g ssd for next to nothing and it will work fine for a ds computer. So trust me and just buy it.