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Hello, Im a 3D scan engineer based in the Netherlands. Currently, our company is looking to upgrade the hardware we use for 3D scanning and the reverse engineering of the data. We currently have 2 HP ZBook 15 G1 with the following specs: i7 4800QM 16GB DDR3 256GB SSD NVIDIA Quadro K2100M 2GB We use the following software: Solidworks (CAD) Geomagic Wrap (Software for 3D scanning and processing the data (pointclouds/meshes) Geomagic Design X (CAD software especially made for reverse engineering from 3D Scan data) Polyworks (Scanning/Quality Control program) We currently experience alot of waiting time with Geomagic Wrap, mainly when calculating meshes and processing pointclouds. I know we could run a beefy dekstop workstation, but around 60/70% of the time, we scan on location. The budet per notebook will be around 1500/2000 euros. But feel free to tip more expensive gear if it benefits us more! I hope I provided enough information for you guys to help us out!

So I am thinking about getting a laptop for engineering applications, modelling and simulations. Programs used include MIDAS GTS NX, ANSYS, Solidworks and some more. Types of analysis are nonlinear static and dynamic time history analysis. So I was looking at this laptop and it caught my attention. Anyone has used it? Do you recommend it? How good is it for my workload? CPU: i7-8750H GPU: Quadro P2000 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834154877 Thanks.

Hi, I recently built my new workstation with these specs. I have been working my way up the chain of flow simulations in Solidworks 2019 and will later move into Star CCM+. While tuning in my 4GHz oc, I noticed in task manager that my CPU load was blipping up and down rather than remaining at full 100%. This dose not happen during a Cinebench R15 test. Not sure what performance hits I might be taking due to this or if it is standard behavior for this program. Will keep testing and see what I can find. Any ideas or experiences from you guys? Thanks!

In the aim of freeing up disk space on my m.2 SSD I need to move Solidworks over to my HDD but I'm pretty sure it's not just a click and drag job. If I uninstall Solidworks I won't be able to get it back because I got it through an educational course which I'm no longer a part of. It there any way, be it through Solidworks software or any other means, that I can reinstall the program to a different drive while never removing it from my computer? Thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to help :)

Hey Need some input on this, been thinking about it for a while and want to start building soonish. In South Africa (pricing is +- 120% US pricing) - Looking at a max budget of USD1300 (ZAR24000) - That's with that 20% extra accounted for. PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor $194.79 @ OutletPC CPU Cooler Corsair H100x 57.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler $82.28 @ Amazon Motherboard MSI B450M MORTAR MAX Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard $140.36 Memory G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory $69.99 @ Newegg Storage Mushkin Enhanced Helix-L 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $58.99 @ Amazon Video Card Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB WINDFORCE OC Video Card $269.99 @ Newegg Case NZXT H400 MicroATX Mini Tower Case $101.00 Power Supply Cooler Master 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $145.60 Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit $99.89 @ OutletPC Software Microsoft Office Home & Student 2019 Software $149.99 @ Best Buy Wireless Network Adapter Asus PCE-AC51 PCIe x1 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi Adapter $29.55 @ OutletPC Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total (before mail-in rebates) $1367.43 Mail-in rebates -$25.00 Total $1342.43 Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-10-24 14:43 EDT-0400 Might go to a R5 2600 and buy the H100x AIO later to save a bit upfront. Here are the two primary places I'm shopping, there are others but their return/replacement policies are rubbish. https://www.wootware.co.za https://www.pcexpress.co.za Would prefer not to do any amazon shopping because of customs I know the PSU is a bit overkill but I wanted something with a zero rpm mode that'll run for all the light stuff (Web browsing etc.) and keep things quiet once the AIO is in place even in heavier tasks. Was thinking about getting some corsair ML120's at a later point to replace the case/AIO fans later to make everything super quiet/matching.

A friend of mine is looking at an entry level workstation for SolidWorks and MasterCAM, and after trying my hardest I convinced him to go desktop for the value. What I've been wondering is whether the iGPU on the 2400G, which you could say is around RX 550 in performance, will run that software. I've looked at Google and found a couple instances of people using the iGPU on their workstations: https://www.thegeekyhippo.com/configurations/workstations/workstation-config1 However, I haven't found anything specific to the software my friend wants. Here at LTT we have experts from basically every field, so I wonder, does anyone have any experience using the APU on SolidWorks or MasterCAM? As usual, thanks for the help!

I want to build a PC around $1000. Now, this PC shall have 2 main tasks: • Supervised/unsupervised learning (as of now. Will move onto more complicated tasks later.) • SolidWorks Now I need a little help with the build. Should I opt in for a Quadro with a greater budget, or put greater priority into the CPU? Can someone please list the complete build for me?

I wanted to build a workstation for engineering design using solidworks. I don't usually perform simulations and stuff but I use it only for 3d modelling and assembly (sometimes large and over 3000 parts). And i use only a single monitor with VGA. I was currently looking into quadro series for a graphics card but i don't know how much better they are from the GT series. Budget is around 60000 rupees ~ 850$. Motherboard - Gigabyte H31 9th gen CPU - i5 9th gen 9400f RAM - 16 GB ddr4 crucial SSD - 240 GB SSD kingston Hard drive - 1TB GPU - Quadro preferably (was thinking of a k4200 since it's available for 18000 now on amazon.in) Please help me build a system. Thanks

I was planing to build a PC to run engineering programs, like solidworks and autocad, as well as some light gaming Is the i5-8400 with 1050Ti a good enough combo?

Hello. First of all, hello to everyone. This is my first message in this forum! I am sure i can get a real answer here. I've been searching the internet to see some benchmarks between a PNY Quadro P2000 and an MSI GTX1070, but couldn't find. I can only find benchmarks for 1080 TI. I am building a PC for my girlfriend, mainly for working on architectural programs, and I don't know what graphic card to use. I already have a GTX1070, that I am currently trying to sell to pay part of the Quadro P2000 I bought some days ago, which hasn't arrived yet. - I know my girlfirend uses mainly Autocad, Revit, Vray. She would really appreciate good rendering times. - Se is also working on a project using SolidWorks, but I would say that it is not a huge project in terms of model size. - It would be a plus if I could also do some gaming, but in this case it is really not a priority. Questions: 1) What would be better in terms of performance for programs like Autocad, Revit, Vray (and other rendering engines), GTX1070 or Quadro P2000? 2) Will using a GTX1070 for SolidWorks render it unusable or incredibly slow? What about other programs commonly used for design? (Rhino?) 3) Even knowing I have to sell one of the 2 cards to make cash...considering a 1 monitor setup, would it be possible to install both GPU on the system? 4) Would I see any bennefit in terms of rendering with vray and other software, if I have these 2 different GPU installed "working together" ? Please... help? LOL Thank you.

Hi everyone, In planning to build a pc for gaming and CAD software, mainly Solidworks. My plan is to use a GTX card for the gaming and a Quadro (P2000) for the CAD. The reason for this is that SolidWorks does not utilize a GTX gaming card, and switches to the CPU for rendering and simulation computing. When using a Quadro the computing etc. is done on the GPU, which results in quicker calculations. However, for gaming, a GTX is nice to have as Quadros usually are older version GTX chips and not optimized for high fps output. Could anyone tell me if the following will work? - Using a GTX 1070/1080 for gaming, connected to monitor - Using a Quadro P2000 (or any quadro) for computing, not connected to monitor Cheers!

Hi, Let me first say I'm new here, but have been watching LTT for a while now. Linus has sometimes mentioned this in some tests, but I never felt there was enough information to come to any real conclusions. I have brought this up in Solidworks forums as well as to the company I purchased Solidworks through, and I still do not have a straight answer. I have also done a significant amount of research on this topic and have found two things: this may be an issue more relevant to cpu rather than gpu and my own experiences do not seem to line up with some results I have seen online (although this may be related to my first discovery). So, the crux of the issue is I am trying to figure out how I can maximize the performance of Solidworks. I have been using Solidworks for 6 years now, across various different machines, but at the moment I have it installed on two computers. For work, I have a workstation laptop with an i7-7700HQ cpu @ 2.8 GHz, and an nvidia Quardo P3000, and my personal desktop, which has an i7-7800x OC at 4.5 GHz, and a 1080ti. Across the two machines I found various issues. My work laptop couldn't handle massive assemblies. When dealing with large assemblies, over 800 parts, my system begins to slow a lot. Especially when dealing with large pipe routes. One thing I did find out was that larger pipe routes slow Solidworks significantly more than multiple small routes. It still slows down however with too many parts, even when I hide parts and routes I am not currently working on. I have also received assemblies from clients of models of large scale facilities in the form of E-Drawings. When these are too large, I cannot open them on my workstation laptop, however I have been able to open them on my personal desktop. That being said, they are usually still slow on the desktop. I believe it is primarily due to the scale of the models, however it may also be my personal gpu. When working on my personal computer, I do not expect to get the best performance out of Solidworks, as I know it works better on a workstation gpu. I have seen this when Solidworks crashes sometimes while I am doing something routine in it and it crashes for a graphics related issue. Still, when it is not crashing I have noticeably better performance on my personal computer. Now I am not sure if this has to do with my personal computer's cpu or gpu, or a combo of both. Now that I have finished explaining the situation, here is where this becomes an issue. I am planning on building a desktop for work, however I want to make sure the pc will run Solidworks significantly better then it works now. I also want to get a workstation gpu for my personal desktop, but am not sure which model to get. So I want to ask here if anyone has any insight as to what will impact the performance the most of Solidworks. From what I gathered through my research, the gpu model does not really matter. As seen here and here, Solidworks seems to perform the same across the different quadro models. From what I understand, the main difference between a quadro p2000 and p5000 is just graphics memory. Given that even large assemblies do not use much gpu memory, (I see this when I look in the task manager and I'll be using about 10% of my gpu on my workstation laptop), this seems to make sense, and would indicate that I could get away with a much less expensive gpu. But, are there any disadvantages to this? For instance, if I were to create motion studies, or flow/heat transfer analyses, would a lower model gpu cause problems? I'm assuming gpus aren't too important for the analyses, but I really do not know. Also, how should I be spec'ing my cpu? Is this the most important part to make Solidworks run well? Any advice on this would be much appreciated!

Hi guys, I just graduated mechanical engineering and need to up grade my desktop pc for a more serious work load since i have been using my macbook pro 2015 running bootcamp through out my schooling. It has been a great companion and has been reliable running solidworks with decent size assemblies and simulations but just wont cut it for professional work with larger tasks. i will be running mostly solidworks and autocad. I currently have a Asus P6X58D Premium mother board with a I7 with 6 cores(not sure what gen or speed) , as for ram whats currently in there is Kingston 6 GB triple channel (3x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz CL9. And for graphics is a really old amd 1gb card. OS is windows 10 Pro currently what i have planned for upgrading is: -24GB (3x8GB) Kingston HyperX Fury Black 1600MHz -PNY nVidia Quadro P4000 8GB -Kingston A400 960GB SATA3 6Gb/s 2.5" Max Seq.Read:500MB/s,Max Seq.Write:450MB/s i know most of this stuff is not all bleeding edge tech like DDR4 and Nvme M2.0 SSD, my mother board is like 8 years old. I have been contemplating building a whole new PC but its really not in the budget for me. Does anyone have any suggestions if im going about anything wrong or can for see any issues i could run in to? Thanks.

Hey guys, I'll try to keep this short. Because I am not completely familiar with this specific area of purpose built workstations I'm looking for some recommendations for a workstations PC build for a friend, that's going to be working mainly in programs such as SolidWorks. So far I was thinking about something like this: CPU: Something like the Intel Core i7-10700K OR AMD Ryzen 7 3700X - AMD is cheaper, but Intel prob has better single core performance, which is what you want specifically for SolidWorks.. AMD might be best for overall PC performance (plus the boards are cheaper) CPU Cooler: stock RAM: Probably going to go for 2 x 8GB (for now) DDR4-3200MHz+, can upgrade later Motherboard: A nice B450/B550 board OR similar Intel supported board Video Card: P1000 OR P2000 Storage: Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2 NVME Solid State Drive - can't go wrong with that Case: something like the NZXT H510 Power Supply: need a little help with choosing decent low wattage PSU's I am kindly asking for some advice! Thank you in advance.

Hey guys, I'll try to keep this short.. Because I am not completely familiar with this specific area of purpose built workstations I'm looking for some recommendations for a workstations PC build for a friend, that's going to be working mainly in programs such as SolidWorks & MATLAB. I am currently in search of a GPU. I was thinking about something like a NVIDIA Quadro P2200, or maybe even an RTX 2060/2070 (if I can get it for a nice price), however I am not completely sure about how they would compare to the P2200 for SolidWorks EXCLUSIVELY. Please note that buying used is NOT an option for him at the moment - so that's out of the question. Also keep in mind I know that the P2200 is outdated and that RTX 4000 would be absolutely perfect, but it does not fit into our budget bracket. Budget (including currency): $400 +/- $50 Country: Slovenia, EUROPE (I don't mind you guys using USD, since US Dollars are kind of roughly equal to Euros) Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: SolidWorks, MATLAB Other details: So, he's going to be working with projects such as this one in this YT video (video should start at around 24 minutes, if not, skip): General idea: CPU: Something like the Intel Core i7-10700K OR AMD Ryzen 7 3700X - AMD is cheaper, but Intel prob has better single core performance, which is what you want specifically for SolidWorks.. AMD might be best for overall PC performance (plus the boards are cheaper), so for budget reasons I'm leaning over to AMD CPU Cooler: stock (if going with AMD) OR a nice Noctua air cooler. Or maybe even something else, there's tonnes of options anyways.. RAM: Probably going to go for 2 x 8GB (= 16GB, for now) DDR4-3200MHz+, can upgrade later to 32GB if needed. Might just go for 32GB anyways.. Motherboard: A nice B450/B550 board OR similar Intel supported board. Intel boards are usually more expensive, which is why I'm probably going for AMD (the money we save is going to be spent on GPU) Video Card: NVIDIA Quadro P2200 OR RTX 2060/2070 Storage: Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2 NVME Solid State Drive - can't go wrong with that Case: something like the NZXT H510, or similar - basically nice and cheap Power Supply: need a little help with choosing decent low wattage PSU's Please note: I know that the NVIDIA RTX 3000 Series cards have just been released, but they are not available for purchase at this moment. Furthermore even the RTX 3070 would be quite a bit out of our budget, since, even though GPU's might be priced somewhere around MSRP in the US, they certainly are not priced like that here in my country.. e.g. GPU's here usually cost around $200 more than in the US. I also realise that new AMD CPU's are going to be released quite soon (along with Intel's response), but the issue relating to pricing explained above also applies to new CPU's as well. Let me also point out that we'd like to start building this system by the end of September. So waiting for an excessive amount of time unfortunately really isn't an option at this moment. One more thing to note: He IS NOT a gamer. He told me himself, he isn't really planning to be gaming with this PC. It's going to be used exclusively for work and university/studying. So great overall/relating to the above mentioned workloads performance is an absolute priority. But I will agree that in the case of consumer GPU's being better anyways, that's a win-win situation, so might as well try some games on the thing as well. I am kindly asking for some advice! Thank you all in advance.

Budget (including currency): £1700 (+/- 100) Country: United Kingdom Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: CAD (Solidworks), 3DS Max, ANSYS, DCS, ArmA 3, Video Editing (Vegas and Adobe Premiere). Other details: As a background, I am upgrading from the below rig: Operating System: Windows 10 Home (64-bit) CPU: Intel i7 4790k @ 4.00 GHz CPU Cooler: Zalman CNPS10X Optima Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 3 RAM: 24GB Corsair Vengeance (2133MHz) GPU: Asus GTX 1060 STRIX Storage (Primary): Crucial 275GB M.2 MX300 Solid State Drive Storage (Secondary): 1TB Seagate Barracuda (ST1000DM003) Optical/DVD Drive: Yes Wifi Card: Realtek 8812AE Wireless LAN 802.11ac PCI-E NIC I am looking to upgrade now, I have two builds down below from PC Part Picker. I'm wanting to upgrade as I got this rig in 2014/2015 and I'm starting to feels its age in newer titles. I'm using 1080p monitors, but I am looking to upgrade to 1440p or even 4K in the future. AMD: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/7vrZxc A few things to note about this one. Firstly, that CPU will be changed to the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X in November. Likewise, the GPU may change to a RTX 3060, or would that be a bottleneck? I'm also worried about the MOBO, will that be fine, or is there a better one for a marginal price increase? Intel: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/67Vj4d I think I'd be stupid to go blue now given the release today. But, I made this prior to the AMD one above. Any suggestions or comments, let me know. Thanks, Jet.

Buddy of mine here in the US asked me to spec him a computer. He's a machinist and will be using this computer for Solidworks. He doesn't need any peripherals, just the PC. Said he'd like to spend less than $900. I really know nothing about Solidworks, but I tried to do some research on it and put together a parts list. I'm thinking the Ryzen 5 3600 with a Quadro M4000. That would come out to $828. I don't know how big of projects he works on or how Solidworks even runs. Any help with this? CPU $167 AMD Ryzen 5 3600 https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-5-3600/p/N82E16819113569?Description=3600&cm_re=3600-_-19-113-569-_-Product&quicklink=true $285 AMD Ryzen 7 3700X https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1485449-REG/amd_100_100000071box_ryzen_7_3700x_3_6.html/?ap=y&ap=y&smp=y&smp=y&lsft=BI%3A514&gclid=Cj0KCQjw_ez2BRCyARIsAJfg-kvQ1Te8eYDTnx6x2aIn_EAlhxGwWej7wnc7addmfqPuVXTAVHq2lscaAoPwEALw_wcB GPU $211 Quadro M2000 4GB https://www.newegg.com/dell-m2000-nvidia-quadro/p/2VV-000D-000A6?Description=quadro m2000&cm_re=quadro_m2000-_-9SIAA4TAYV8320-_-Product&quicklink=true $279 Quadro M4000 8GB https://www.newegg.com/nvidia-quadro-m4000/p/2VV-000H-00035?Description=m4000&cm_re=m4000-_-2VV-000H-00035-_-Product&quicklink=true $395 Quadro P2000 5GB https://www.newegg.com/pny-vcqp2000-pb/p/N82E16814133644?Description=p2000&cm_re=p2000-_-14-133-644-_-Product&quicklink=true --BELOW TOTAL $382-- RAM $68 G.SKILL Flare X 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200 16-18-18-38 https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-16gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232767 SSD $70 Crucial MX500 https://www.newegg.com/crucial-mx500-500gb/p/N82E16820156173 MB $65 ASRock A320M-HDV R4.0 https://www.newegg.com/asrock-a320m-hdv-r4-0/p/N82E16813157872?Item=N82E16813157872 PSU $70 Corsair CV650 https://www.newegg.com/corsair-cv-series-cv650-cp-9020211-na-650w/p/N82E16817139249 CASE $70 CM N400 https://www.newegg.com/midnight-black-cooler-master-n-series-atx-mid-tower/p/N82E16811119277?Item=N82E16811119277&Description=cooler master&cm_re=cooler_master-_-11-119-277-_-Product COOLER $39 CM Hyper 212 Black https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1462237-REG/cooler_master_rr_212s_20pk_r1_hyper_212_black_edition.html/specs

Hi guys, can you guys tell me which graphics card will be best for gaming as well as for Solidworks? I want to achieve both at the same time

anyone could guide me what pc is best for solid works 2020

Budget (including currency): 15000$ (US) Country: turkey Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: solid works cathia and maybe ansys Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): so i have a team of engineers and the people using these kinds of heavy workloads are about 6-8 but keep in mind that the rest also need a pc and the 15000$ budget is for all but not all of them need the same power when it comes to pcs

Hello. I have an engineering company and i was wondering if i could buy a maxed out PC and have my 15 engineers run solidworks in VMs instead of buying one pc for each one of them. If the answer is yes how can i do it? i was planning to buy 3990x titan RTX*2 256gig of quad channel memory at 3200MHz and anything else that is needed.

Hey everybody! So I'm looking for a comfy mouse for modeling in solidworks. My workstation came with a Logitech MX Marathon, but it's DPI is way too low for my tastes. So I brought in my aged logitech G5, but because I have to hold down the scroll wheel button to pan and rotate around my model, my finger starts to get sore. I would just go out and buy an MX master 2s, but this is coming out of my own pocket, so I want to pay around 60 CAD or less. So what I'm looking for in a mouse is this: -good for palm grip -comfy mouse wheel -1800 DPI or more Optionally: -programmable mouse buttons or setpoint compatibility -hyperscrolling -side scrolling Anyway, what have you got for me? BTW I use a G402 at home for gaming AAAAND, I'm also searchign for an affordable ten keyless keyboard and a numpad that isn't garbage TL:DR I need a decent ergonomic mouse with a max DPI of at least 1800, thats cheaper than an MX master 2s

So I'm gonna study engineering next year and I need a laptop and/or a PC the laptop will be an i5 or i7 with an MX150 and it will only be use for in class. But the real question is I got a gaming pc already and the spec is: R5 1400 GTX 1070 8GB RAM (upgrading to 16GB soon) And I know that the Quadro is good for CAD and I see online in The Netherlands an P400 for 130 Euro, K620 for 171 Euro or P620 for 190 Euro I will be running it on a separate system with an: X5660 X58 8GB ECC It will be around 130 Euro for this. or E5-2620 X79 16GB ECC It will be around 200 Euro. So should I build a separate system with which Quardro and with X58 or X79, Or should i just stay on my 1070? My budget for the separate system is 500-650 Euro.

So... I think I have my build mostly figured out (alot of research), as the title says trying to build kind of a jack of all trades on a budget. Gaming and CAD are the most important, but I guess if your machine can do either well it is probably ok for some light streaming. Gaming 50% CAD 45% Gaming/Streaming 5%. Budget is hard cap of $1200, but preferably under $1000. CAD is usually pretty light but I do sometimes get into very large assemblies and simulations. CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor ($165.99 @ Amazon) Motherboard: MSI - B450M PRO-VDH Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($79.62 @ Newegg) Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($169.99 @ Amazon) Storage: Samsung - 970 Evo 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($99.99 @ Amazon) Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($39.99 @ Amazon) Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB GAMING Video Card ($284.98 @ Newegg) Case: Corsair - 270R ATX Mid Tower Case ($59.99 @ Newegg) Power Supply: Corsair - RMx (2018) 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($79.99 @ Newegg) Total: $980.54 Open to input. At the moment I have peripherals (monitors, keyboard, mouse, etc.) they would be upgraded later to take advantage of the hardware. So some questions: Would a 2700X give me meaningful gains over the 2600, for litteraly 2x the cost? Would 8 gig of RAM with a 1070/1070ti better for gaming at 1080 ultra wide high/ultra settings than 16 gig with a 1060 6gb? (about the same cost) Would the 8 + 1070 or 16 + 1060 be better for CAD? Would 8 gigs ram be to detremental to CAD to even consider? Any other input is welcome.

Recently, I sold my desktop due to my ending interest in playing games in favor of CAD (specifically SolidWorks) and I'm now looking to replace said desktop with a Laptop. My workload doesn't demand an awful lot of power, but preferably more than what the 2013 MacBook Airs that we used in school offered. I've been looking at Lenovo's ThinkPad line-up, seeing as the device I'm writing this on is a Lenovo T61 and happens to be the only computer I have left, but they're a bit pricey. My budget is very flexible, anything from €1000 to €2500 goes, but I want to make sure I get the most out of it. Priority CAD, with mild gaming as second. Also, I live in Sweden. Thanks in advance