I’m looking for a laptop for the upcoming season. What are some recommendations for a laptop under $1,000 that can run Onshape, Visual Studio Code and has a decent amount of storage?
no laptop no matter the price will ever be able to run fusion on like a decent 30 fps
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assuming you are from US, then pick any gaming laptops, i took a look at best buy, idk if that is where the average american buys from, but you can pick up a
1.hp victus, rtx 3050, 8 gigs of ddr4 ram, and 512 ssd, and i think you can upgrade the ram. so ye, it is 500 usd on best buy it seems.
2. Hp victus, rtx 4050, 16 gigs of ddr4 ram, 512gb ssd, and core i7. 899 best buy.
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@TibTy gaming laptops and work stations like the ThinkPad P16 gen 1 or 2 will run Fusion, solid works and much more pretty darn well. if you have 32gb ram and a decent graphics card it will run heavier cad software’s just fine.
to the OP:
my teammate cads our 15inch robot using on shape and codes in visual studio code and im pretty sure he uses a lenovo yoga gen 4. to be 100% honest pretty much any laptop with like 16gb ram will run VScode and Onshape jsut fine. the biggest limiter ofr onshape is internet connection since its web based. So you cna easily find a computer for like 600-800$ that would fit your requirments. I would browse through lenovoes website to see if u can find one that fits exactly what you want.
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obviousley dont just take our words for this. i recomend taking a depe dive and reading reviews on plenty of laptops and thinking about what you might need it for i nthe future especially if you plan on using this in colledge level cad cources ect. so do your reasurch before making a big purchase like this
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On shape runs on my school Chromebook so I believe that you could just buy a decent stats windows computer.
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the framework laptop 12 is coming out soon. That’s what I’d personally get if all I wanted to run was onshape and maybe stuff a little more intensive. Basically anything should run onshape, but if you have huge assemblies then a cheap chromebook will lag (or even crash) much sooner than something more expensive.
I recommend making sure you get something with good I/O options (multiple USBA, USBC, maybe ethernet, etc.) cause many laptops lack that nowadays. Also, charging via USBC is something that’s really worth double-checking, cause someone will always have one if you forget yours.
I got an HP Victus for about $1k and tbh I’d say avoid HP especially if you want durability.
More on the framework laptop 12, it’s made to be fully repairable, customizable, and even upgradable so it should last you many years. It’ll probably cost a little more than other stuff with similar specs (as do all other framework laptops), but it makes up for that with how long it’ll last. People are speculating it’ll cost around $600, so well within your budget.
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I’d go for a decent lenovo Ideapad. They are fairly inexpensive and work well
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