Advice please - laptop for Architecture student

[Mr.D]

https://www.creativebloq.com/buying-...laptop-for-cad


Here you go . I agree with what they say , Asus is a brand I’ve never had any trouble with ( although I personally haven’t had a pc laptop since about 1999).

Mac incompatability has been talked about for years . I’ve never had any issue running high end 3d apps on mine to create pro work for deadlines.

linux may be something to consider as most pro workstations are generally linux environments ( I personally prefer linux to windows but I’m also pretty familiar with a linux/unix comand line interface , and I often use the terminal on my macbook for moving large files about).

You shpukd be able to dual boot a pc laptop to have windows and linux , not sure about macs any more ( but its built on unix anyway which is the same thing almost) .

[eldrich]

https://www.creativebloq.com/buying-...laptop-for-cad

You shpukd be able to dual boot a pc laptop to have windows and linux , not sure about macs any more ( but its built on unix anyway which is the same thing almost) .

With Windows 10/11 you can install Linux using WSL2, and have Linux running alongside/under Windows without the need to dual boot. We used to be a Mac site because we had 100s of Linux boxes for calculations and needed desktops that ran MS Office and could talk to the Linux machines. Over the years the Macs have moved further and further away from being Unix/Linux compatible while Windows is now essentially 100% compatible through WSL2, hence we run Win11/WSL2 on the desktop tops and Linux on the servers.

WRT to the laptop, we have found Acer. Asus and Lenovo all to be reasonable brands. We tend to buy Lenovo for higher end machines and then Asus/Acer for the lower end stuff as we feel the quality of the Lenovo's 'seems' to be higher.

[Ellietwed]

Fantastic.. Many thanks for the advice everyone.. she'll confirm what software she's likely to need (apart from AutoCAD) and check out the Lenovo education site too.. Appreciate it