Portable laptop for engineering at uni and other geeky use, were these specs ok?

[lbsf1]

Hi guys, already just orderd the laptop so probably not much point in me posting this, haha. However hey ho I want to see what people thought of my choice.

I needed at laptop to replace my badly aging 5 year old Dell Inspirion. Going to uni in a month to study engineering so needed something to do light (solidworks) 3d modeling, I'm not a massive gaming person however I do play a few racing games and a few other obscure games (kinda like sim city style) I'm not bothered about these being in ultra awesome settings aslong as they look good and play smooth. It also needed to be relatively light and portable to take to from the library/group study rooms at uni.

So what I chose was this, (I'm gonna spend an extra £10 and upgrade the wifi card to the n6300 however before it goes through fully, unless anyone thinks otherwise?)

Chassis & Display Cosmos Series: 15.6" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-4710MQ (2.50GHz) 6MB
Memory (RAM) 8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X IMPACT 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 850M - 2.0GB DDR3 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
2nd Graphics Card NONE
Memory - Hard Disk 1TB SEAGATE HYBRID GEN3 SSHD Drive, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (5400 rpm)
2nd Hard Disk NONE
mSATA SSD Drive NONE
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW)
Memory Card Reader Internal 9 in 1 Card Reader (MMC/RSMMC/SD: Mini, XC & HC/MS: Pro & Duo)
Thermal Paste ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Sound Card Intel 2 Channel High Definition Audio + MIC/Headphone Jack
Bluetooth & Wireless GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® N-7260 (300Mbps, 802.11BGN) + BLUETOOTH updated to: GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® ULTIMATE N-6300 (450Mbps)
Wireless Router/HomePlugs NONE
USB Options 3 x USB 3.0 PORTS + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT AS STANDARD
Battery Cosmos Series 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (48.84WH)
Power Lead & Adaptor 1 x UK Power Lead & 120W AC Adaptor
Keyboard Language COSMOS SERIES UK KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD
Operating System Genuine Windows 8.1 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence
DVD Recovery Media Windows 8.1 (64-bit) DVD with paper sleeve

 

[keynes]

Looks good, make sure you get at least silver warranty for £5

 

[lbsf1]

Looks good, make sure you get at least silver warranty for £5

Yeah, got that, just didn't see the point in copying and pasting that whole section of the spec considering I hadn't selected any external stuff .

 

[lbsf1]

Updated the network/wifi card to the n6300, whilst it doesn't have bluetooth it is dual band and I have checked and my uni's network is dual band. How much of a difference have you guys found when comparing 5ghz to 2.4ghz?

 

[SpyderTracks]

Updated the network/wifi card to the n6300, whilst it doesn't have bluetooth it is dual band and I have checked and my uni's network is dual band. How much of a difference have you guys found when comparing 5ghz to 2.4ghz?

I've got dual band at home and run my PC's off the 5GHz and peripherals and my housemates stuff on the 2.4GHz. It depends how you have it setup I guess, if you have them both running as the same stream then perhaps you'd get some speed improvements, the way I have it setup under 2 different networks, I don't really notice any particular improvements. I think mainly it's for reliability as it's a less used frequency to the 2.4 so less interference.