What are the best laptops for engineering students on a budget?

[EternusVia]

Hi all,

What laptop would you recommend for a mechanical engineering student? I really like Mac but I hear that engineering software is almost all Windows.

Are there any good engineering laptops for around $1,000 that you could recommend?

 

[jedishrfu]

What kinds of engineering software are you consdering?

I know Matlab works on mac quite well and even the open source versions work too.

 

[EternusVia]

What kinds of engineering software are you consdering?

I know Matlab works on mac quite well and even the open source versions work too.

To be honest I don't have a comprehensive list. I know I'll be using Solidworks, at least. This will be my first year coming up.

 

[jedishrfu]

I know a lot of engineering students use MATLAB for numerical computations. Its true it won't run macosx but could run on a mac machine if booted to windows.

https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/63678