During my B.CS, most power I needed was whilst doing Android and iOS development, and even then that's just for the VMs. Otherwise did it all on a beat-up 2014 MacBook Air. Specific programs we used like SPIM, the pan/spin verification thingo, gcc/g++/etc, you can run wherever you like.
EDIT: Uni provided computers with VM stuff installed, and let us remote into them during COVID.
EDIT: Uni provided computers with VM stuff installed, and let us remote into them during COVID.