Hi, I’m a highschool senior who has been programming for a while. I plan on going to go to Michigan State University for a Major in Computer Science and a Minor in Game Development. I’m looking for a college laptop. I have a custom PC that is very suitable for game development, but I want a laptop that will be able to develop games and be suitable for college. My budget is $2,000 but something cheaper would be best considering I will be a college student. Any suggestions?

Kind of depends on what kind of game development ? I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T430 (refurbished) with SSD that fits me great, but I don't do the unity stuff. It's plenty fast to run counter strike source era stuff though. And cheap. $300. Buy a spare battery to go with it and you are set. Bring your desktop to college and stick in your dorm to run the heavy stuff. You can bring this to class. Spill coffee, buy another...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0733H5YZY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_WPegCb5VBZDBS

2 hours ago, timothyjlaird said:

Kind of depends on what kind of game development ? I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T430 (refurbished) with SSD that fits me great, but I don't do the unity stuff. It's plenty fast to run counter strike source era stuff though. And cheap. $300. Buy a spare battery to go with it and you are set. Bring your desktop to college and stick in your dorm to run the heavy stuff. You can bring this to class. Spill coffee, buy another...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0733H5YZY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_WPegCb5VBZDBS

I would love to be able to have something that can run Unreal. Doesnt have to be able to run games max settings 60fps but just something i can use for game engines.

2 hours ago, cfescript said:

I would love to be able to have something that can run Unreal. Doesnt have to be able to run games max settings 60fps but just something i can use for game engines.

Thinkpad not a fit then. If they had ported ut3 to Linux I would run a test for you but they never did...but looking at their dev specs it would be constantly pushing that machine to the limit. I have verified it kicks ass with quake era, css and vanilla opengl graphics but I would call it a excellent coding laptop with workable 10 year old graphics and that's it. If you take windows 10 off (that it ships with) and put lubuntu on it it does really well but no miracles