engineering people no need any special functions,
but you must bring your laptop to the school's NP helpdesk,
SOE de is located at blk 46/47 level 1
then they'll instead all the programs for you, take about 45 mins only
the most common that we use is scientific notebook for the mol
personally i like acer (laptop not desktop)
cause the 'aspire' series is cheap yet not bad,
my lecturer told us not to buy from the school if possible

cause you don't save alot, mostly $50-$150