PLEASE NOTE, THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS ONLY TO BE USED AS A GUIDELINE

A high specification laptop would be beneficial; however it is not essential as we generally advise students to run complex models/analysis on University workstations or on the Universities High Performance computing facility.

UG/MSc standard laptop specifications (baseline budget) – A laptop with these specifications could work but we would not recommend lower than this.

Central Processing Unit (CPU): Intel i3 processor, AMD Ryzen 3 or equivalent

RAM: 4GB/8GB RAM

Storage: 128GB Solid State Drive (SSD)

Operating System: Windows 10/11

UG/MSc standard laptop specifications (medium budget) – A laptop with these specifications would be recommended.

CPU: Intel i5 processor, AMD Ryzen 5 or equivalent

RAM: 8GB/16GB RAM

Storage: 256GB SSD

Operating System: Windows 10/11

UG/MSc laptop (high budget) – We would only recommend getting a laptop with these specifications if your personal budget allows for it.

CPU: Intel i7 processor, AMD Ryzen 7 or equivalent

RAM: 16GB/32GB RAM

Storage: 512GB/1 TB SSD

Operating System: Windows 10/11

Graphics Card (GPU): NVidia/AMD GPU