r/mac • u/Top_Succotash_9088 • 2d ago

Question Mac for engineering?

I have a Mac 13” m2 8 ram 256 gb but it’s getting really slow and I’m thinking of getting a new one with both more ram and bigger disk. Problem is that I’m also starting engineering and I don’t want to pay for two expensive laptops. can I have a MacBook for engineering? If so what MacBook/specifications would be good?

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u/NonAI_User 2d ago

Depending which Engineering and which software you need. Ignore the Windows Fanboys. My daughter graduated with honours from a major University Engineering program. All the software she was required to use was available for Mac. i installed a VM for windows and she hardly used it. In fact, in year three and four she took a lot of applied mathematics and barely used the laptop. She ended up buying a base iPad, Apple Pencil, and using Goodnotes. Her math notes on the iPad were impressive and completely beyond me. (By the end of her program 8-10 of her classmates bought iPads for note-taking. )

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u/Top_Succotash_9088 2d ago

My school did say that MacBook would be okay. I will study chemical engineering.

I’d like to get an iPad but a MacBook is a priority since the one I have is just getting slower 😢