> Ideally though you have access to a lab / server that you can offload your hard work on. And I think this is the key point here. Most CS things you can easil

> Ideally though you have access to a lab / server that you can offload your hard work on. And I think this is the key point here. Most CS things you can easily handle with the horse power of a Chromebook. And when you hit the 10% of the coursework that you can’t use a Chromebook for, you probably wouldn’t use a “normal” laptop for it either. You’re always going to have jobs that will take a bit more horsepower. Those should be farmed out to a cluster or server anyway. Where I think the OP will have issues is what resources they will need for their research, which again will probably need a server or cluster. Likely, the most taxing thing they will likely need to work on locally is their thesis. This is where I’d think they might run into issues, especially with figures. But even here, Overleaf should be up for the job.