Laptop for engineering?

[Christophe Corazza]

2 hours ago, Black Paladin said:

For Lenovo, upgrading RAM would be around $200. I did get a discount when I got the Lenovo so I paid roughly $2400 with tax. Do you guys think there’s something better at that price?

 

I have mentioned in one of the earlier posts that COMSOL can really benefit from quadros. The P2000 is adequate enough for most tasks.

(I mean... your're still on a laptop though... If you really want to have performance, then the only way to go is a desktop.) 

And the overall performance of Lenovo's higher end laptops are very decent as well.

On top of that, $ 200 for 16 GB of DDR4 RAM is not bad at all!

 

So, taking all of that into consideration, if I were you, I would go for the P52 but with 32 GB of RAM instead.

 

It would be actually very usefull to have an estimate about how much RAM you actually think you'll need.

[Black Paladin]

1 hour ago, Christophe Corazza said:

 

Doesn't your institution offer any help with the budget part of things?

No unfortunately I’m not on any type of academic funding. 

1 hour ago, Christophe Corazza said:

 

I have mentioned in one of the earlier posts that COMSOL can really benefit from quadros. The P2000 is adequate enough for most tasks.

(I mean... your're still on a laptop though... If you really want to have performance, then the only way to go is a desktop.) 

And the overall performance of Lenovo's higher end laptops are very decent as well.

On top of that, $ 200 for 16 GB of DDR4 RAM is not bad at all!

 

So, taking all of that into consideration, if I were you, I would go for the P52 but with 32 GB of RAM instead.

 

It would be actually very usefull to have an estimate about how much RAM you actually think you'll need.

I was running a simulation just now and it was taking up all the RAM. In fact Lenovo vantage popped up and wanted a BIOs update because I think the cores were overheating a bit. I’m about to rerun the simulation and see how much RAM I’ll need

 

As of now I asked for a whole replacement Lenovo and I should be getting a confirmation soon. I’ll be able to hang onto the laptop until the new one comes on!

 

Edit. I’m kinda broke so I won’t be able to afford the extra ram just yet. And I’m solving 3954077 DOF plus 154905 internal DOF at the moment.