Good Engineering Laptop

[Alcapwned]

Hello, I am going to university next year for engineering and my college sent out a list of recommended devices for engineering students. I notice on the list that most of these devices are "mobile workstations". the one that I am leaning towards on the list is the Lenovo P52, and I can get it for a relatively low price of 1,600 USD from the college, however it has a Quadro P500 2Gb in it, and I can get a gaming laptop with a much better consumer grade GPU in it for less money. So does it make sense to buy the gaming laptop instead?

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2 minutes ago, Alcapwned said:

Hello, I am going to university next year for engineering and my college sent out a list of recommended devices for engineering students. I notice on the list that most of these devices are "mobile workstations". the one that I am leaning towards on the list is the Lenovo P52, and I can get it for a relatively low price of 1,600 USD from the college, however it has a Quadro P500 2Gb in it, and I can get a gaming laptop with a much better consumer grade GPU in it for less money. So does it make sense to buy the gaming laptop instead?

What are you majoring in m8? This will help me pin down what device you need.

[TLCH723]

is really depending on the program you will be using. But seeing the surfacebook on the list, which has a 1060, so it can work

[Fokus]

Dang It I'm sorry I am blind. You said you are majoring in engineering. lol 

[Alcapwned]

3 minutes ago, TLCH723 said:

is really depending on the program you will be using. But seeing the surfacebook on the list, which has a 1060, so it can work

Programs that I could expect is like Solid works and maybe some simulations

[userzero]

We have just given our engineering dept. (PLC's Siemens etc) a Panasonic Toughbook. That's exactly what this sort of department should have imo

[TLCH723]

4 minutes ago, Alcapwned said:

Programs that I could expect is like Solid works and maybe some simulations

Here is an old article about geforce vs quadro. Of course this is for desktop but you can expect similar results in laptop.

 

I dont know how A&M is but I would wait a bit and go to campus and see if they have workstation that you can use in the labs and such. There are like 10 stations for the 300-400 students for my campus.

[Alcapwned]

2 minutes ago, TLCH723 said:

Here is an old article about geforce vs quadro. Of course this is for desktop but you can expect similar results in laptop.

 

I dont know how A&M is but I would wait a bit and go to campus and see if they have workstation that you can use in the labs and such. There are like 10 stations for the 300-400 students for my campus.

Ok so in that case, I will probably go with the gaming laptop, Thanks for the help.

[genexis_x]

Some programs benefit from Quadro GPU (even P500 can be faster than 1080TI) so do your research. FYI P52s is based on T580. I'll suggest P52 non S with CFL-H CPU (haven't released)