Hi Aladdin
Your answer depends on what programs you are going to run on it, and whether or not you are a student or a working engineer. From your post, I assume that you're a working engineer who works with AutoCAD and the Revit family in practice.
Your specifications seem fine, but as noted above you should absolutely invest in a better graphics card if you want high quality renders of your models that really look the part. I also strongly suggest investing in an external monitor that is at least 21", instead of opting for a larger laptop screen; programs such as Revit are so much less sufferable to use on a larger screen especially when you are working with multiple windows. Also as above invest in an NVidia card.
Just wanted to add my experience with FEA too. I have a celeron "dual core" Intel processor and an integrated GFX card in my laptop, 4GB of RAM that's about 3 years old. For 'cleaner' general structural analysis FEA programs (Oasys GSA and LUSAS) the performance is fine and there is no noticeable slowdown. For multi-physics programs such as Ansys it would be ideal to have better specs, as it really can drag sometimes. My experience with Revit on this laptop is "ok" at best, no crashing, but a little lag when updating (say 3s?). Renders look awful though.
Hope this helps.
Pete
For general structural analysis programs your specifications are fine, particularly if you're undertaking
RE My experience with performance with LUSAS and Oasys GSA is based on linear static analyses and time stepping analyses e.g. consolidation. When conducting my thesis I certainly wished I had a much better computer as I had to do extensive geometrically nonlinear analyses which really do take ages.
Your answer depends on what programs you are going to run on it, and whether or not you are a student or a working engineer. From your post, I assume that you're a working engineer who works with AutoCAD and the Revit family in practice.
Your specifications seem fine, but as noted above you should absolutely invest in a better graphics card if you want high quality renders of your models that really look the part. I also strongly suggest investing in an external monitor that is at least 21", instead of opting for a larger laptop screen; programs such as Revit are so much less sufferable to use on a larger screen especially when you are working with multiple windows. Also as above invest in an NVidia card.
Just wanted to add my experience with FEA too. I have a celeron "dual core" Intel processor and an integrated GFX card in my laptop, 4GB of RAM that's about 3 years old. For 'cleaner' general structural analysis FEA programs (Oasys GSA and LUSAS) the performance is fine and there is no noticeable slowdown. For multi-physics programs such as Ansys it would be ideal to have better specs, as it really can drag sometimes. My experience with Revit on this laptop is "ok" at best, no crashing, but a little lag when updating (say 3s?). Renders look awful though.
Hope this helps.
Pete
For general structural analysis programs your specifications are fine, particularly if you're undertaking
RE My experience with performance with LUSAS and Oasys GSA is based on linear static analyses and time stepping analyses e.g. consolidation. When conducting my thesis I certainly wished I had a much better computer as I had to do extensive geometrically nonlinear analyses which really do take ages.