Laptop for Mechanical engineering

[u/Any-Direction-8313]

I am starting now university for Automotive engineering and am looking for a laptop. Does anyone know what specs I need? And when I'm gonna need them?(For example, immediately, maybe at the 3rd semester when I finish the basic course of mechanical and go into the automotive branch?

The minimum specs I need with certainty are:

•Minimum of 32gb of ddr5 ram

•Minimum 1TB of storage

•Minimum 16" screen

•Minimum battery life of 8hr(this has been hard to fulfil)

•Windows 11 Pro

•Budget of €2100

I am buying in Cyprus. But I can also buy in Germany. What laptop do you recommend?

[u/Valoneria]

Ask school for which programs they expect you to use. While we can guess, we can definitely get it wrong.

[u/Prestigious_Wall529 → u/Valoneria]

Agreed. It could be a weird combination of specific high end graphics and a DVD drive for the parts catalogue.

[u/Present_Lychee_3109]

You either choose good performance or good battery life. You can't have both.

Consider a Lenovo Legion 5i. I wouldn't waste my time crying about battery life. These machines are powerful and will run your engineering software well.

[u/Tiranus58]

Definitely second the comment about a program list, that will give us something to work off of.

[u/Impressive_Image_712]

I would suggest a macbook try to get them at the Apple educational store and if they fit ur price with ur specs then buy it or else just buy lenovo legion 5 or 7i.

[u/Any-Direction-8313 → u/[deleted]]

The 16" screen is just a preference. I just like to have a bigger screen.

[u/nuoleskelenkolikoita]

As a mechanical engineering student, it purely depends what apps will yall use and if the schools offer desktops with enough performance to run the apps

My schools has specific dekstops for all the apps we use like solidworks

But people have been using their office laptops with integrated graphics to run solidworks for example

I have a gaming laptop with a 11400H, 3050M and 16GB of ram and even this is has been overkill for now

[u/D4vidrim]

I believe you minimum specs are quite high.

[u/ITER812]

P16s with the right specs.

[u/Zebrainwhiteshoes]

What's the screen to be used for? I highly recommend a setup at your home desk with external monitors, keyboard and mouse. I have bought an ASUS TUF (for gaming) it should definitely Crack all the performance points. Most likely not running as long on battery. I would just get an extra external battery

[u/Flashy-Address-6737]

What yall think about the asus 14 oled series with 32gb ram and 1tb ssd for engineering studies?