A friend of mine is looking to buy a new laptop for her professional needs. She will use Adobe Photoshop, Autocad, Revit, Illustrator, Sketchup on a daily basis. Can someone suggest a powerful laptop suitable for the purpose.
Not sure about architects specifically but all my friends in design/illustration use MBPs. Every single one. Prices aren’t bad if you hunt for a good refurbished deal. Otherwise if she can comfortably afford it just go big on it. Should be fairly future proof.
Fyi. Mac os is terrible for autodesk software (revit, autocad, etc). Most cad software runs poorly on macs or mac is entirely not supported.
TIL I figured industrial design would require similar software as architecture. Or maybe my friends are just missing out on that Windows CAD goodness 🤷🏽♂️
Your “friend” could ask
She does not uses blind. I guess blind is famous among engineers.
You’re really just on every single post tonight giving people shit aren’t you?
MacBook Pro
She already ruled this out. But thanks for the input.
I’ve been using an ASUS ROG laptop for quite awhile, and it works really well for all the noted programs. One thing to do quickly though is to redo the thermal paste. They use high quality components, but the thermal paste job is terrible (just like on most laptops). She can get a tube of good replacement paste for $10 and use it on four or five different computers. Use it on both the CPU and GPU!
Surface book 2. Beautiful sketches and the power to run cad software
Highest spec Dell if she’s a cad monkey. If she’s in management then Surface book
Back when I was an architect, Autodesk worked well only on windows. There was a Mac version, but crappy. I had a massive Dell Inspiron back then that worked great. Maybe check out a Dell with a good graphics card.
The ThinkPad P1 2000 has a beast of an i7 (with an i9 option, which might be overkill) and a Quadro GPU which is basically workstation - not gaming - class graphics.
My architect brother (fresh out of college) has a dell gaming laptop. He loves it.
Alienware?
No I think it was either a dell g5 or g7. The thing is for regular work they don't need as much processing power as they think. But when they do need it they better have it. For things like rendering.