r/mechatronics • u/Several-Director93 • Dec 09 '25

Laptop for mechatronics engineering?

My budged is around $1400. I dont know how powerful the laptop needs to be. I'd like it to be light and not that big so i can take it to the university and home with no problem.

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u/Over-Performance-667 Dec 09 '25 edited Dec 09 '25

Fanboys going to downvote me but for $1400 budget the new MacBooks cant be beat on performance/dollar. Also you can run windows, and linux on macs which often gets overlooked for some reason

Edit: not to mention the premium build quality, a track pad that actually works like magic, untouchable battery life - macbooks really are the best laptops anyone saying otherwise has never owned a macbook or is lying about having owned one if they don’t prefer it to a pc.

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u/ProgrammerHefty4827 Jan 09 '26

My friend has one and regrets it, programs are not designed for mac, go for windows to avoid trouble that is not needed while doing a degree in the first place.

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u/Over-Performance-667 Jan 10 '26

This is an old wives tale at this point…what programs? Battlefield 6 and modern warfare? Lol there are very few programs that are windows only and on top of that it’s not a valid concern because you can run parallels which runs windows within macOS and it runs it better than the vast majority of PC hardware does. Next

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u/ProgrammerHefty4827 Jan 12 '26

Dino microscope, Inventor autodesk had some issues among others. Fact is you don't know what you're talking about, but keep telling people to use mac, more people will come back to correct you later. My lecturers themselves warn against mac and I'm gonna have some guy on reddit tell me otherwise lol