SaiyanGoku
kamehameha!!
Nothing can be done,I am well familiar with this institutes' preferring intel policy & their influence on students not having the info to judge it.
I've known colleges who give "free" laptops to students by including its MRP in college fee (irrespective of how it actually performs or how old/bad it is). But it is absurd to force students to get specific hardware with their own money when the software doesn't even depends on it.Quite true. Initially they were ready to go for our suggested config, but after discussing it in her institute everything got changed.