MAC vs WINDOWS PC for Mechanical Engineering Students

Unfortunately the extreme 20 hour real world battery life and low power consumption of the Mac when doing word processing is too much of a quality of life improvement for me. Waiting for snapdragon and windows on arm just in time for uni next year. In the mean time onshape and fusion360 for the win.

"I don't even understand why is this a question"

Well, practically people that want justification for buying MacBook.

Except that CATIA on M2 Mac parallels lasts practically 4X longer on battery than a windows laptop……

I love the windows laptops, but it’s getting annoying seeing how efficient the Macs have come.

The video is mostly right but I would like to give another perspective.

I am also engineer graduates 2-3 years ago with professional experience.

Basically he is right, for students, get a windows and more or less forget about having a mac for now. I also had a rog laptop and an iPad for taking notes and drawing.

However, I recently bought a m2 pro 14 laptop and it is a wonderful machine. First of all, as he said fusion 360 is there, but also there are a lot of other mechanical engineering software available: Openfoam, Matlab, Simscape(online), and so on.

Definetly if you just use soldiworks, there’s no way… 🙅‍♂️. But as someone who fly 4-5 times a year, I have an extremely powerful laptop that I can bring with me to the airport do my stuff there for few hours and forget about searching for a cable connection. It has a wonderful sound and screen so overall it can still make sense for an engineer (not for a student) since you can use matlab, python, fusion 360 and that could cover most of what you could use privetly for your own projects+efficiency.

Hi, I need help with choosing my career path. I’m completely lost and I have to choose a college next year. Is there any way to contact you in a private message to ask about mechanical engineering?

You really need ipad or surface honestly. Because really need it for drawing

After studying 3year I completely agree that you really need IPAD for touch screen to your computer. This saved alot of time and for drawing etc

Will a laptop with integrated gpu be fine for mechanical engineering apps?
(I already bought it and I'm a y1 mechanical engineering student)

Windows, it's not a debate

get a razer blade 13 or 15 if you want build quality on a windows laptop

Solidworks work good on a bootcamp windows (macbook pro 2019 I9 32 gb ram Redeon 5530pro). He work good like a my job computer (with Nvidia A2000(like a Quadro series))

Thanks for your content. About me, I choose to use Windows for my work and Mac to remotely control them

Nice video ! thx

I was definitely needing this video🙏🏽

Windows or mac the correct one to use is ...



🐧 !!! Linux !!! 🐧
BTW i use Arch

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me with a macbook air watching this video..

Im about to start my mechanical engineering undergraduate degree and had this question in mind. Thank you so much <3

i’m a senior in high school interested in mechanical engineering and was just thinking about these two options perfect timing and big help

I asked this question to you a month ago thanks a lot bro I bought a intel gaming laptop after your comment :)

I have a powerful pc at home and a m1 macbook air. Do you think I could just parsec to my home pc and be able to do most things?

Definitely agree with getting a gaming laptop bro. I use a MSI Stealth which is plenty for basic CAD