Laptop for mechanical/automotive engineering?

Hi !! I will be starting university later this month. I am planning to buy the apply mac book pro. Would this be the best option ? I should be able to run all the softwares like matlab, catia, solidworks, ansys etc. Thanks !

Im studying eee at uni of nottingham and i have got 17inch gaming laptop from pc specialist

Why not a mac ??

The laptop should be able the design programs such as ansys, matlab, solidworks etc. Budget is not really an issue. Suggest me the best possibly? As I know that we can use the computer rooms, although I will be learning extra stuff like CATIA, which I know that they don't teach. Also, not really into games. Btw, Nottingham was my insurance !

If you are going imperial, you wouldnt waste your time what laptop to get. Sorry mate, you are a liar!

Hi !! I will be starting university later this month. I am planning to buy the apply mac book pro. Would this be the best option ? I should be able to run all the softwares like matlab, catia, solidworks, ansys etc. Thanks !

I'm a MechE alumni, and now also study computer science in grad school (no longer at UW), so I can speak to the MechE program a little, despite being 5 years out now.I tend to "burn" through a lot of computers. My current count would be 1 Windows desktop, 4 linux desktops, a Windows laptop, and two MacBook Pros (some of these are my work computers, and most dual boot to multiple OS's but I've listed what I mainly use on them). I build my own desktops and some high-powered embedded computers, but have always purchased laptops. Right now I'm all for MacBooks for laptops, they're just the best hardware out there and Apple seems to be the only company that still has quality customer service (I've spent 5 hours on the phone with HP as they repeatedly denied I ever purchased an extended warranty, despite having the receipt). All the major Windows manufacturers are putting out crap, both in component quality and design. As evidence, notice that Microsoft didn't trust any of their hardware partners to make a sufficiently exciting tablet, and thus they opted to make the Surface themselves.As far as the ME program goes, you'll probably mostly be using Matlab for general classes and at times also some SolidWorks and maybe a little bit of "real" programming. Matlab runs better on OS X and Linux than it does on Windows, mostly due to better memory handling but also because it was originally written for Unix. SolidWorks only runs on Windows, and would be a good candidate for dual-booting your Mac if you have space and use it frequently, otherwise SolidWorks is better in the computer labs anyways with their big monitors. "Real" programming (C++, Java, etc.) will go a little more smoothly on OS X, because it is Unix based, giving you a much friendlier programming environment than Windows (most programmers seem to prefer Linux, and OS X can give you almost all of the same tools). If you get into programming and have a Windows computer you'll probably dual-boot it with Linux eventually.My other beef with Windows is that it tends to slow down after you've had it for a long time. I reinstall Windows about once a year on computers I actively use just because they get so bogged down. I haven't experienced this with the Unix-based operating systems (OS X and Linux) because they're designed a little differently under the hood.Lastly, I'll also say that an advantage to the MacBooks is that OS X is highly optimized for Mac hardware, which they can do simply because there are so few hardware combinations. This means that the same processor is going to give you slightly better performance on a Mac than on Windows