Laptop Requirements

Laptop
The School of Engineering & Applied Science utilizes the most up-to-date teaching techniques both in and out of the classroom. All engineering and computer science students are required to have a laptop computer for their course work. Computers purchased from the vendor links below will be fully supported by SEAS IT for support or warranty issues.

Engineering Majors
Computer Science Majors

Approved Laptops for Engineering Majors

Required for Undeclared Engineering, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, and Engineering Management

NO Apple/Mac products!

System Requirements:

  • Windows OS
  • 16 GB RAM or more
  • 500 GB of free hard drive space (SSD or M.2 hard drives will provide the fastest speeds)
  • Advanced graphics card (Some models include ATI FireGL, ATI FirePro, NVidia Quadro FX line)
  • Minimum i7 CPU
  • A USB-C port

Additional recommendations for all students

Approved Laptops for Computer Science

Required for both the BS and BA degree programs in Computer Science

Requirements:

  • 16 GB RAM or more
  • 500 GB of free hard drive space (SSD or M.2 hard drives will provide the fastest speeds)
  • Advanced graphics card (Some models include ATI FireGL, ATI FirePro, NVidia Quadro FX line)
  • A USB-C/thunderbolt port

Additional recommendations for all students

Recommendations

  • A four-year warranty his highly recommended!
  • An extra power supply
  • A portable mouse

Frequently Asked Questions

Our computer partners promise to offer a fair discount for Gonzaga families, however there are likely to be sales. Please look closely at the graphics card and hard drive space before buying any computer from an outside source. 
 

The laptops on the approved laptop list were selected to meet the needs and requirements of the different software packages that you might use during your time at Gonzaga. We do recommend that you choose a model from the list provided. We cannot verify that all the required software will run properly on other machines.

 

The laptops on the approved laptop list were selected to meet the needs and requirements of the different software packages that you might use during your time at Gonzaga. We do recommend that you choose a model from the list provided. We cannot verify that all the required software will run properly on other machines.

 

Unfortunately due to some of the software packages that you could be using as an upperclassman, we had to limit the laptop choices to only PCs for most engineering students. Computer Science students may bring an Apple MacBook Pro.

 

Most engineering software doesn't work on Mac products.

Computer Science programs are too large to run properly on the MacBook Air.

 

All Computer Science and Engineering students have access to an online repository of all apps/software used in SEAS programs.