Robotics Engineer(ing student). Also annoyed that only the most expensive pro has a real graphics card. Things that need a lot of RAM: Solidworks, Fusion360

Robotics Engineer(ing student). Also annoyed that only the most expensive pro has a real graphics card. Things that need a lot of RAM: Solidworks, Fusion360 (I can't even run it on 8bg with and an integrated gpu) And using Solidworks remotely is a bad joke. Robot Path planning, motion planning AI Assignments, ROS + RVIZ + Gazebo + actual robot software Anything written in python [EDIT almost forgot] Matlab, VMs Playing music or having a web browser open while any of the above things are running... 16bg would probably be fine for 2 years. But >$2000 is a lot to pay for only 2 years of use. People seem to think that just because its no longer current_year-1 that their desktop app can use previous_version's_RAM+0.5gb There are enough people with enough reasons for having only a laptop. The dell precision m5510 is around same price as mbp (depending on setup) and yet it comes with a real graphics card, and the option for 32 gb of RAM.