ArtU is pleased to be able to partner with Apple and Dell to provide students with recommended laptop configurations at a discount to help ensure a successful start to the school year.
Below you will find Apple Macbook and Dell/Alienware laptop configurations broken out by different programs. These are intended to serve as recommendations on specs that are appropriate to run the various applications that are used by each area of study.
Please make sure to review the instructions for each program before finding the area of study that applies to you for your specific recommendation.
Apple
Apple’s program is simple. Clicking one of the links below will take you to Apple’s education site. Once there, please make sure to select the appropriate specs as listed below. Apple only allows links to the “base” specification of a certain MacBook, and you may need to select options for more memory, or hard drive space, etc. to match what is being recommended.
Dell/Alienware’s program works a little differently. The first step is to go to www.Dell.com/MPP . Once there, click on the button marked “Student” and enter your art.edu email address. You will receive an email to that address with a discount code to apply at check out. Once you have the discount code, use the links below to go directly to the recommended devices with their configurations already set.
Thanks to the rLAB, a simple laptop is perfectly fine as far as speed and performance goes. However, it can feel crowded working on a smaller screen, which is why a larger monitor is also recommended. ***The laptop spec’d here is to serve as an example of what kind of device would suffice.
