What to look for for engineering laptop

youcee
Tue, 29 Jan 2019 04:13:44 +0000

@Kbat11700 Both of my sons are Mechanical Engineering majors and a 13” HP Spectre x360 has worked out well for both of them. It runs Solidworks OK for the intro classes and runs Matlab very good. They also considered the Dell XPS 13, but it came down to a matter of personal preference. The light, ultrabook form factor is the main thing - I don’t think they ever use the full rotation tablet mode or even the touch screen. A current i5 with multicores should be sufficient and keeps the heat down. One has an i5/8GB/256GB configuration that has worked for close to 4 years, the other has a newer i7/16GB/512GB config.