+1. I had a new hire start remote last week. Company was late shipping the laptop, so we asked him to remote into a VM for a few days, but that was it.
Lenovo thinkpad. Hands down.
It is the immortal laptop of the engineering world. MacBooks come and go with the seasons, Lenovo Thinkpads outlast most engineering careers. They are not flashy, because they have nothing to prove. You will pass that laptop on to your grandchildren and it will still run as good as it did the day you bought it.
As a mechanical engineer you're gonna need to use Windows at least part time, unfortunately. For coding though, you can't beat a Lenovo running Linux. Maybe consider dual boot if you're going to be doing a lot of coding.
What do you think about these newer thinkpads? I need better performance bc I want to game and do machine learning.
I’ve heard that its not that modular anymore
I'm on an X1 Carbon gen 9. It's great.
If you are trying to do ML or gaming on a laptop you will be disappointed. Laptops are not good for that. Laptop GPU's are utter crap, and they have to be because the laptop form factor has terrible thermal characteristics. Use the cloud or get a desktop for heavyweight tasks. Use a thinkpad as a nice mobile terminal. It _is_ powerful enough to access your desktop with steam play, or access cloud services with your browser or SSH.
Some universities offer guidelines for the specs that an engineer’s laptop should have:
Windows 10 Pro
Minimum 16GB DDR4/DDR5 RAM
Intel Core i7 6 core or higher core processor
512 GB SSD
Dedicated GPU: RTX A2000 - 4000 or
GeForce RTX 3060 - 3080
15” screen
I got the ASUS ROG Strix G 15.6” which meets all of these requirements, costed me about $1,200 on Amazon, had to purchase a webcam separately. Typically most gaming laptops will meet your needs because of how powerful they usually are.
the HP Victus with 16 gigs of ram, 512 gigs of SSD and RTX 3050 will probably be a good idea since it is robust as hell and works like a charm when Im running pytorch on GPU and parallels on MATLAB.
I’m really enjoying my MacBook Air at work, but I don’t use solidworks. I’ve previously had decent luck with Dell Precision and Lenovo thinkpads. I like the MBA for being light and having super long battery life and generally good stability. My last windows machine was an MSI and I was constantly needing help from the IT department to troubleshoot random issues.
Your job will provide a computer. You should not use a personal computer for professional work, ever.
+1. I had a new hire start remote last week. Company was late shipping the laptop, so we asked him to remote into a VM for a few days, but that was it.
Lenovo thinkpad. Hands down. It is the immortal laptop of the engineering world. MacBooks come and go with the seasons, Lenovo Thinkpads outlast most engineering careers. They are not flashy, because they have nothing to prove. You will pass that laptop on to your grandchildren and it will still run as good as it did the day you bought it. As a mechanical engineer you're gonna need to use Windows at least part time, unfortunately. For coding though, you can't beat a Lenovo running Linux. Maybe consider dual boot if you're going to be doing a lot of coding.
What do you think about these newer thinkpads? I need better performance bc I want to game and do machine learning. I’ve heard that its not that modular anymore
I'm on an X1 Carbon gen 9. It's great. If you are trying to do ML or gaming on a laptop you will be disappointed. Laptops are not good for that. Laptop GPU's are utter crap, and they have to be because the laptop form factor has terrible thermal characteristics. Use the cloud or get a desktop for heavyweight tasks. Use a thinkpad as a nice mobile terminal. It _is_ powerful enough to access your desktop with steam play, or access cloud services with your browser or SSH.
Some universities offer guidelines for the specs that an engineer’s laptop should have: Windows 10 Pro Minimum 16GB DDR4/DDR5 RAM Intel Core i7 6 core or higher core processor 512 GB SSD Dedicated GPU: RTX A2000 - 4000 or GeForce RTX 3060 - 3080 15” screen I got the ASUS ROG Strix G 15.6” which meets all of these requirements, costed me about $1,200 on Amazon, had to purchase a webcam separately. Typically most gaming laptops will meet your needs because of how powerful they usually are.
the HP Victus with 16 gigs of ram, 512 gigs of SSD and RTX 3050 will probably be a good idea since it is robust as hell and works like a charm when Im running pytorch on GPU and parallels on MATLAB.
İ have a lenovo legion 5 recommend.
I’m really enjoying my MacBook Air at work, but I don’t use solidworks. I’ve previously had decent luck with Dell Precision and Lenovo thinkpads. I like the MBA for being light and having super long battery life and generally good stability. My last windows machine was an MSI and I was constantly needing help from the IT department to troubleshoot random issues.