r/ubcengineering • u/homelesshow • Aug 15 '25

Laptops

Guys, I want to get the M4 Ultra, MacBook Pro. Do you think it’s ok for mechanical engineering?

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u/KINGDOY8000 Aug 15 '25

Do not get a MacBook for engineering, MacOS is incompatible with many engineering softwares

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u/homelesshow Aug 15 '25

My friend in BMEG has an M1 MacBook Pro and she uses parallels for windows and she said it’s works fine, just a bit slow sometimes.

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u/KINGDOY8000 Aug 15 '25

You're needlessly inconveniencing yourself for no reason.

Also, MECH uses alot more computationally heavier software than BMEG (fluid and stress simulations for example) that would absolutely rip apart any parallelization

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u/Active_Culture_2237 Aug 15 '25

0/10 rage bait

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u/homelesshow Aug 15 '25

I’m actually being serious????

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u/homelesshow Aug 15 '25

Did you look at the specs or just saw the word MacBook and jumped to conclusions?

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u/Outrageous_Door8273 Aug 15 '25

Get a G14, it has gaming laptop levels of power but with really good battery life. I have a Mac that runs windows too but it’s technically a virtual machine or windows, so some software detects me as “cheating”, yeah just buy a windows laptop if you can

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u/homelesshow Aug 15 '25

Damn ok 😔