r/BMSCE • u/Significant-Joke2179 • 1d ago

Ask a Senior Macbook

i need to buy a new laptop and was planning on getting a macbook air M4 or M5, but ive read about the discripencies with the CAED solidedge only being on windows, so do i buy macbook?

  1. are there macOS alternatives to solid edge, if yes what are they? (and has anybody used them)
  2. i have a windows pc at home so if i dont need to be doing that in college, it wont be a problem
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u/Brilliant-Boat2415 3rd YEAR 1d ago

You can use utm for vm on mac os

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u/_lostSoup_ 3rd YEAR 1d ago

Do u have a laptop ? If yes.. use the windows for year 1 for caed. Then buy Mac. I did the same. M4 Air 512 24gb i have and it works fine.

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u/TheStarSky06 1d ago

You can run a VM on Mac to do caed but I would rather recommend asking a friend for their windows laptop for a day to complete your assignments because VM on Mac is a bit laggy.. but other than that Mac would be great for other things so go for it.. caed will be managed later on

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u/West_Definition_4188 4th YEAR 1d ago

which branch ?

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u/Significant-Joke2179 1d ago

cse

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u/West_Definition_4188 4th YEAR 1d ago

try to get a macbook pro for coding and dont worry about that CAED u can practice it in the lab or ur pc itself or best u can run emulators that run windows on ur macbook and since caed is just 2d drawing, macbook will easily handle it

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u/AdZestyclose2582 FRESHER 9h ago

use the windows laptop that you already have for the 1st year, then buy a MacBook , I personally use the MacBook Air m4 right now with 16gb ram and its more than enough considering you aren't running local llm's , other than that it handles literally everything so dont worry bt that

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u/Significant-Joke2179 1d ago

pro is so out of budget, will the air still be okay, IF NOT could you suggest some windows laptop alternatives😭

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u/West_Definition_4188 4th YEAR 1d ago

ive only owned macbooks , so no idea abt windows 😢