[AeroSonic]

Originally Posted by Noco

Forget about Apple - ThinkPad and Siemens ME45 is everything you need

Your children can use it after you. Or sell as a vintage IT hardware

BTW all experience guys, with whom I work on construction side, on oilfields, etc., use something like this:

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops.../p/22WS2WPWP72

There is also old versions 15, 17" ThinkPads, 10+ years, still running, despite the barrels of coffee spilled on them.

Thanks for the recommendation

[Светлана]

I guess it depends on what applications you are going to run? You could also use a Linux desktop as it is more development friendly and many CFD solvers run there?

[crestang]

"Sure, there is boot camp to get windows running on a mac."

The Macbook is not cheap, but Windows works very well on it.

[Jubilee-X]

Windows/Linux laptop is preferable. You may look on a Dell business laptops (such as DELL Latitude 55X) for a much cheap power.
From the opposite side Mac has a much better keyboard.

[Simbelmynë]

Originally Posted by AeroSonic

Dear all

I am a beginner in cfd field.
I am looking for buying a new laptop, i will use it for writing my reports and some code testing or may be running codes and some post processing.
( I write my own codes on matlab and currently learning fortran)


I am considering buying the new 16inch MacBook Pro as it has a very good cpu , i never tried macOS before and i am a windows user.

So what do you think ? Should i go for the mac or get a windows laptop ??

If you buy a laptop to primarily code and write reports then I would go with the cheapest possible. Complete waste of money to buy an expensive computer in this case. I have a laptop, that I use for writing code, with a first generation Core 2 Duo Intel CPU, running Debian Linux. It is more snappy than recent, and expensive windows laptops provided by my organization.

[JBeilke]

A good address to buy a used ThinkPad (or Dell) is Luxnote.de
https://www.luxnote-hannover.de/


This one is more than enough for serious work:
https://www.luxnote-laptop.com/lenov...cam-win10.html