Laptop Lending

We offer a laptop lending service for all students at McGill.

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Borrowing a Laptop

The fastest way to borrow a laptop is to visit our office during our opening hours, which are between 9h00 and 17h00 from Monday to Friday. If none are available at the time of your visit, you will be added to a queue to borrow at the soonest availability. You can also request a laptop over email at ctf.science@mail.mcgill.ca; we generally respond within 24 hours, excluding weekends. Laptops are distributed on a first-come-first-served basis.

Loan Duration

Laptops can be borrowed for one week at a time, with the possibility to renew as needed.

System Information

Our current inventory consists of two different kinds of laptops:

Model Lenovo Thinkpad X13 Gen 2 AMD Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Gen 6 AMD
Screen 13.3" WUXGA (1920 × 1080) IPS, 60Hz, anti-glare, 300 nits, 100% sRGB 14" WUXGA (1920 × 1200) IPS, 60Hz, anti-glare, 500nits, 100% sRGB
OS Windows 11 Education Windows 11 Education
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U w/ AMD Radeon Graphics AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 350 w/ AMD Radeon Graphics
RAM 16GB LPDDR4x 4266MHz 16GB DDR5 5600MT/s
Disk 256GB PCIe SSDNe 512GB PCIe SSD
Battery 57.7Wh (USB-C charger provided) 57Wh (USB-C charger provided)
Ports - 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1
- 2x USB-C 3.2 Gen 2
- 1x HDMI 2.0
- 1x 3.5mm jack
- mini RJ45 Ethernet connector (adapter provided)
- 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1
- 2x USB-C 4 Gen 3
- 1x HDMI 2.1
- 1x 3.5mm jack
- 1x RJ45 Ethernet connector
- Smart card reader
Installed Programs - 7zip and VLC
- Audacity
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Clarivate EndNote 2025
- Esri ArcGIS Pro 3.5
- Gaussian 16 and MNova 17
- IntelliJIDEA, PyCharm, RStudio, and VSCode
- Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote)
- Microsoft PowerBI, MPlus 9 Demo, SAS 9.4, and SPSS 31
- MiKTeX and TeXstudio
- Zoom