Gfxcardstatus 2.3 pc1/3/2024 Gfxcardstatus – free, lets you conserve battery life by controlling when your Mac switches to the discrete GPU. This one looks interesting.Ĭaffeine – free, gives you a little icon in the OSX menu bar that prevents your Mac from going to sleep for however long you’d like. In any case, on the PC side I’ve heard good things about Lenovo laptops. Instead of having to ship my laptop off to some Dell warehouse in Texas, I just had to go to the nearby Apple Store, swap my MacBook for a loaner MacBook Air unit, and wait a week before they replaced my screen (for free). Last year, my MacBook had some minor display ghosting issues. I will note that a huge advantage of having an Apple computer is customer service. Is paying the Apple premium worth it? It depends on your needs, and I’m not looking to start a flamewar here. ![]() Be warned, though: it is quite pricey (starting at ~$1700 with a student discount), though similarly powerful and portable PC laptops really aren’t that much cheaper. I’ve found my retina MacBook Pro 15″ (2012 model) to be nearly the perfect computer for my purposes: it’s 4.5 pounds, is incredibly speedy (2.3 GHz i7, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD), has a gorgeous screen large enough to display two textbook PDF pages side-by-side, and has a battery life of ~6 hours (the 2013 model has significantly improved battery life). Among my Desired Laptop Attributes: lightness, power, battery life, futureproofness, value. This is my SolidWorks-ing, paper-writing, photo-editing, MATLAB-ing, coding, social-networking, machine. Especially if you have lazy professors who provide almost zero exam prep material. Protip: at the beginning of a semester, ask upperclassmen for course “bibles”, which contain psets, exams, and (sometimes) lecture notes from previous years this can save you a lot of time when studying. This has two benefits: (1) Evernote has fairly accurate Optical Character Recognition, meaning you can search through handwritten notes, and (2) you can stop being paranoid about losing your entire semester’s worth of notes in your checked luggage when heading home. Most dorms and libraries have scanners available I like to scan my notes to PDFs and store them in Evernote. Using pencil & paper doesn’t mean you have to lose the advantages of new technology, though. ![]() I also find that I retain information more easily when I write it down, as opposed to just typing it out. Equations, diagrams, and graphs are no fun to try to reproduce on a laptop or tablet. But still the best way by far to take notes in most MIT classes. I’d title this something grandiose like The Definitive 21st-Century MIT Student’s Everyday Carry, but (1) I’m constantly working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that title wouldn’t fit on the image below.Īntiquated, I know. Instead, I’ll just cover the essentials, aka the things I carry with me every day. I won’t try to cover everything you should bring (if you’re looking for a more exhaustive list, these blog posts might be of interest). ![]() Maybe it’s some combination of old hiking habits, suppressed middle school memories of having my roller backpack kicked around, or watching Up in the Air too many times.Īnyways, every once in a while I get questions about what you should pack before heading off to college.
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