mechgrad

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   by mechgrad 13y ago

   Plenty of schools will you just usually will have to take some undergrad courses like jlund said to make sure you have the knowledge. Source: doing this from a mechanical engineering degree this year. What I did, went and talked to my local
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   by mechgrad 13y ago

   The processor matters when you get into complicated assemblies or analysis of parts. Your school should have computers capable of running whatever you need to do and to be honest a home built computer of ~$500US would be capable of undergra
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   by mechgrad 13y ago

   Those would do more than fine. If you go with lenovo they have a very good warranty with accidental damage protection for a couple hundred dollars for 3 years if you're worried about build quality (I think you have to buy from the leno
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   by mechgrad 13y ago

   I don't know if a MBA will be strong enough to run Solidworks okay or not (you will have to use bootcamp if you want to run it so make sure you have enough harddrive space win7 + solidworks probably means 40-50gb or more easy + files a
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   by mechgrad 13y ago

   I graduated from ME a few years ago and I can say that most everything you interact with (software-wise) is Windows based. So keep that in mind for your purchase. You may be able to run it on a MBA but some of the programs will run terribly