For all those mechanical engineering students out there who wanted the best laptop out there but had to settle for a Windows machine? Well, you don't have to settle anymore. That one program you needed to use will run on a Mac. Yes, that's right. Solidworks works on a Mac via the Parallels tool.
Here is the official benchmarking test running on a MacBook Pro M3 Pro with 18 GB of RAM. Here's the video.
James Andrew Smith is a Professional Engineer and Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of York University’s Lassonde School, with degrees in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alberta and McGill University. Previously a program director in biomedical engineering, his research background spans robotics, locomotion, human birth, music and engineering education. While on sabbatical in 2018-19 with his wife and kids he lived in Strasbourg, France and he taught at the INSA Strasbourg and Hochschule Karlsruhe and wrote about his personal and professional perspectives. James is a proponent of using social media to advocate for justice, equity, diversity and inclusion as well as evidence-based applications of research in the public sphere. You can find him on Twitter. You can find him on BlueSky. Originally from Québec City, he now lives in Toronto, Canada.