A laptop is an essential tool in your design education. We recommend a laptop that can handle advanced 3D and CAD work. Because you will change desks each semester based on your studio, a laptop is more practical than a desktop computer.

For more intensive computational tasks, we have a number of workstations on the studio floor.

While many programs you will use during your studies have been ported to Mac, we recommend a Windows machine to ensure compatibility with our core softwares.

Processor

Intel Core i7 Quad Core

Memory

16 GB RAM

Storage

256 GB or higher capacity solid state drive

Graphics

Dedicated AMD or NVIDIA graphics with at least 2 GB of video memory

While we do our best to anticipate software and hardware requirements, we cannot guarantee that any given laptop will be adequate to address all computing needs throughout your progress through our curriculum.