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Something more specific for the specific people. Here, I am going to show you the 33 best laptops in 2021 for chemical engineering students. Furthermore, I have also published a laptop buying guide focuses on the Chemical Engineering students. I suggest you read that If you haven't before. In that article, I have described the needs of specs based on the software and types of uses. The use of a laptop in chemical engineering comes when you are dealing with mathematical modeling , process simulation , and fluid dynamics computations .
Here, I am going to show you the list of the laptops that I have tested by running the 19 chemical Engg-specific software along with the normal-uses like web browsing, programming, and emulator-running. All the above laptops are sorted based on the smooth performance first, followed by specs with a reasonable amount to buy. Furthermore, I have tested the battery life by running those 19 chemical engineering-specific software, Also note that no gaming performance has been measured.
The 33 best laptops in 2021 for chemical engineering students to buy:
LAPTOPS
Lenovo ThinkPad T490
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Dell XPS 9370
Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 14
Acer Swift 5
Lenovo IdeaPad S540 (QHD display)
LG Gram Thin and Light Laptop
Dell Inspiron 7490
Mi Notebook Horizon Edition 14 (Core i7)
Lenovo ThinkPad E14 (512GB SSD)
Acer Swift 3
Lenovo IdeaPad S540 (Core i5)
Lenovo IdeaPad S540 (Core i7)
Dell Inspiron 7580
Asus VivoBook S14 S403JA
HP 15s EQ0132AU
Dell Inspiron 7570
Lenovo IdeaPad S340 (15.6-inch display)
Asus VivoBook S14 S433FL
Dell Inspiron 3593
HP 15 15s Laptop
HP Pavilion 14 laptop
Lenovo IdeaPad S340 (14-inch)
HP Pavilion 14 14-ce3065tu
ASUS VivoBook S510
Asus VivoBook 15 X512
Asus ZenBook Flip 14 UM462DA
Lenovo Ideapad S145 81MV00WRIN
Lenovo Ideapad 330 81FK00DKIN
Dell Inspiron 5570
HP T8TJG
HP 14 14s-er0003TU
CPU : 1.6GHz 4 Core 10th Gen Intel Core i7-10510U Processor | 8MB Smart Cache
Graphics : Dedicated NVIDIA GeForce MX250 2GB GDDR5
RAM : 2400MHz 16GB DDR4 | Expandable up to 48GB
Storage : 512GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD
Display : 14-inch FHD display | IPS & Anti-glare panel | 500 nits
Battery: 50Wh 3 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 5 hours on DWSIM simulator.
Weight : 1.55 kg (3.4 Pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 32.9 x 22.7 x 1.8 cms
High performance
Better multitasking
Impressive and much brighter display
Lightweight
Faster storage
Dedicated NVIDIA GPU
Long-lasting battery
Upgrade option for RAM
Impressive tactile keyboard with backlit support
The smooth and accurate Precision touchpad
Pretty awesome screen color gamut
All-around solid build to meet the military standards
Highly durable
Fingerprint reader
Loud and clear speakers
No thunderbolt port
No DVD port
Fingerprints magent
WHAT IT CAN DO
Process design and simulation smoothly on DWSIM and AspenPlus software
Run ANSYS software easily
Run smooth Fluid-flow simulation on Flow-3D and CFD
Web/Android/Desktop Programming
Sci-Lab/MATLAB programming
Graphics & Video editing
WHAT IT CAN'T DO
iOS/Mac Programming
Machine learning
Not only high specs, but also a brighter and color accurate display this laptop does have to provide you the great experience during designing the process and its simulation.
Read the full review of Lenovo ThinkPad T490 laptop .
CPU : 4GHz 4 Core 8th Gen Intel Core i7-8550U Processor | 8MB Smart Cache
Graphics : Integrated Intel UHD 620 Graphics
RAM : 2133MHz 16GB LPDDR3
Display : 13.3-inch 4K touch display | IPS & Anti-glare panel | 497 nits
Battery: 52Wh Li-ion battery | Lasted for 5 hours and 42 minutes on DWSIM simulator.
Weight : 1.20 kg (2.6 Pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 30.43 x 19.81 x 1.17 cm
Impressive and color-accurate 4K touch display
The laptop doesn't heat up
Higher storage and RAM
Good tactile feedback keyboard with backlit
Smooth and accurate precision touchpad
Has thunderbolt ports
Better thermal management
Fingerprints don't really show up
Display is pretty brighter
Speakers are enough loud at max volume
No dedicated GPU
Run ANSYS software
This Dell XPS 13 9370 laptop is powerful like Lenovo ThinkPad T490, but it gets the job done.
Its touchscreen display allows the better drag and drop of objects during process design. Furthermore, the display is one of the brightest display, reached 497 nits. Also, it is highly color accurate. This laptop is powered by very high-end CPU and an integrated GPU.
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CPU : 4GHz 4 Core AMD Ryzen 7-7300U Processor | 4MB Smart Cache
Graphics : AMD Radeon RX Vega 10 Graphics
RAM : 2400MHz 20GB DDR4 SDRAM
Display : 14-inch FHD touchscreen display | IPS & Anti-glare panel | 250 nits
Battery: 45Wh Li-ion battery | Lasted for 4 hours and 7 minutes on DWSIM simulator.
Weight : 1.65 kg (3.64 Pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 32.8 x 22.9 x 1.79 cms
Higher performance
Impressive multitasking
Smooth and accurate touchpad
Good tactile feedback in keyboard
Speakers are fairly loud
Durable chassis
Average brighter display
Color gamut results are fine for chemical engineering tasks
Quite a low screen color gamut
Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 14 is an average to high-specs laptop for chemical engineering tasks. It has an average brighter display with color gamut. But, that's not a problem in process design, simulation, and modelling. It has 20GB RAM to provide you an outstanding multitasking compared to 16GB RAM laptops.
CPU : 1.3GHz 4 Core Intel Core i7-1065G7 Processor
Graphics : Intel Iris Plus Graphics
RAM : 2400MHz 16GB DDR4 SDRAM
Display : 14-inch FHD touchscreen display | IPS & Anti-glare panel | 296 nits
Battery: 56Wh 4 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 5 hours and 27 minutes on DWSIM simulator.
Weight : 997g (2.2 Pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 31.75 x 21.08 x 1.52 cms
Average brighter but good color gamut display
Pretty tactile keyboard
Smooth and responsive touchpad
Lightweight and thin
Fast storage
Loud and clear speakers at max volume
Speakers are not enough loud at max volume
Bad thermal management
Fingerprints really show up
Touchpad doesn't use the Precision drivers
Acer Swift 5 is one of the slimmest laptops I have tested for chemical engineers.
The display is average bright but no incredible and has impressive color reproduction capabilities. The 14-inch FHD touchpad display makes the process design work faster than average, speaking from my personal experience gained during distillation process design.
CPU : 1.6GHz 4 Core Intel Core i5-10210U Processor | 6MB Smart Cache
Graphics : Dedicated NVIDIA MX250 2GB GDDR5 Graphics
RAM : 2400MHz 8GB DDR4 SDRAM
Display : 13.3-inch QHD display | IPS & Anti-glare panel | 313 nits
Battery: 56Wh 3 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 4 hours and 54 minutes on DWSIM simulator.
Weight : 1.3 kg (2.9 Pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 29.69 x 20.86 x 1.59 cms
Pretty standard performance
Above an average brigher and higher contrast QHD display
Enough good screen color gamut
Display uses PWM to change the brightness
Fairly long-lasting battery
Dedicated Graphics
Fingerprints don't really show up on the aluminum interior
Speakers are loud but less clear at maximum volume
Up/Down arrow keys are small and badly placed
Not a tactile keyboard
Web & Android Programming
Run ANSYS
iOS/Mac/Desktop Programming
This Lenovo IdeaPad S540 has an QHD display with above an average brighter display and good color gamut.
The Core i5 processor comes with it isn't much powerful but gets the chemical engineering job done. The touchpad found accurately handling the gesture despite not using the precision drivers.
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CPU : 1.6GHz 4 Core 8th Gen Intel Core i5-8265U Processor
Graphics : Intel Integrated Graphics
Storage : 256GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD
Display : 14-inch FHD display | IPS & Anti-glare panel
Battery: 72Wh 4 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 7 hours and 9 minutes on DWSIM simulator.
Weight : 0.995 kg (2.2 Pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 32.3 x 20.9 x 1.68 cms
Fair performance
Lightweigh
Pretty sturdy and solid Mg-alloy build
Longest battery life
Average display with good screen color gamut
Smooth, responsive, and accurate touchpad
Thunderbolt ports
Speakers are enough loud and clear
Bit more glossy display
Speakers feel tiny at max volume
No better cooling solution
Run CFD (Performance is below an average)
Web & Small-scale Android Programming
Graphics editing
Run ANSYS and Flow-3D
The Mg-alloy chassis LG Gram laptop is one of the slimmest laptops with longest battery life I have tested. Because of the low specs, It isn't able to run ANSYS and Flow-3D. Also, CFD smoothly. In addition to that, the display feels bit more glossy than average laptop with glossy display I have tested.
CPU : 1.6GHz 4 Core 10th Gen Intel Core i5-10210U Processor | 6MB Smart Cache
Display : 14-inch FHD display | IPS & Anti-glare panel | 306 nits
Battery: 65Wh 4 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 6 hours and 21 minutes on DWSIM simulator.
Weight : 1.32 kg (2.9 Pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 32 x 20.57 x 1.52 cms
Brighter and good color gamut display
Enough loud and very clear speakers
Just 13-inch chassis - quite small for a laptop
High and faster storage
Thunderbolt port
Good tactile keyboard
A smooth, accurate, and pretty responsive touchpad
Fast charging (80% in just 1 hour and 14 minutes)
The touchpad is a bit more audible - sounds noisy
This Dell Inspiron 7490 has magnesium-alloy build. It has enough high specs to tun Flow-3D and CFD.
And, it is coming with an ExpressCharge Technology that charges themachine to 80% in just 1 hour and 14 minutes. Overall, If you have no plan to use ANSYS, then this one is the best laptop for you.
CPU : 1.8GHz 4 Core 10th Gen Intel Core i7-10510U Processor
Graphics : NVIDIA MX350 2GB GDDR5 Graphics
RAM : 2666MHz 8GB DDR4 SDRAM
Display : 14-inch FHD display | IPS & Anti-glare panel | 250 nits
Battery: 48Wh Li-ion battery | Lasted for 4 hours and 17 minutes on DWSIM simulator.
Weight : 1.35 kg (2.98 Pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 32.5 x 23.2 x 1.8 cms
Read the full review here
The display has a large contrast ratio
Enough loud and clear speakers
Pretty average battery life
Very thin bezels – just 3mm
Good thermal management
A webcam is not integrated, rather comes separately
More display flex
Screen color gamut falls on poor side
Keyboard looks messy
The touchpad bent more than average when pressed
Touchpad isn’t a precision unit
Keys are giving inconsistent tactile feedback
Below an average brighter display
2 Arrow keys are small and badly placed
No Windows Hello support here
CAN DO
Run ANSYS, Flow-3D, and CFD
Gaming
CAN'T DO
The Mi Notebook Horizon 14 Edition has much high specs. Despite such heavy specs, this laptop cannot be used for content cration due to below an average brighter display. In addition to that, the inconsistent tactile feedback keyboard is really disappointing.
Read the full review of Mi Notebook Horizon 14 laptop here .
Also, there is a similar laptop available with a Core i5 processor with the almost same rest of the specs. Its specs are as follows. If you've no plan to use ANSYS software and Flow-3D then I prefer this laptop over the Core-i7 version. Because the Core-i5 version will do the job in the same smoother way.
CPU : 1.6GHz 4 Core 10th Gen Intel Core i5-10210U Processor
Graphics : NVIDIA MX250 2GB GDDR5 Graphics
Graphics : Intel Integrated UHD Graphics
Battery: 45Wh 3 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 4 hours on DWSIM simulator.
Weight : 1.69 kg (3.7 Pounds)
Ports: 1 USB Type-C Gen-1, 2 USB 3.1 Gen 1, 1 USB 2.0, 1 HDMI 1.4b, 1 Gigabit Ethernet (RJ-45), 1 3.5mm Audio/combo jack, and 1 Kensington lock
Read the full review here (Core-i7 variant)
Pretty solid and sturdy build
Faster SSD storage
Smooth, responsive, and accurate precision touchpad
Pretty average brighter display
Higher screen contrast ratio
Opens using just one finger
Camera has a privacy shutter
Speakers are enough louder
Highest durability
Enough bigger and well-placed 4 arrow keys
Average battery life
Silent fan
Little poor camera and microphone
No Windows Hello support
Speakers aren’t clear
Screen color gamut falls on the poor side
Smooth matte surface does attract fingerprint
A bit poor thermal management
Run CFD
Web Programming
Android Programming with only 1 emulator in parallel
This Lenovo ThinkPad E14 has slightly low-specs to run the chemical engineering software. It has pretty tactile keyboard. Its touchpad is found smooth, responsive, and accurate at gesture handling. But, because of having low-specs, it cannot run ANSY and Flow-3D. So, buy only if you have no plan to use them in future.
Read the full review of Core-i7 variant of ThinkPad E14 here .
There is also another similar laptop in specs than storage and battery life. The below laptop has a slightly lower battery life due to hard disk storage. The hard disk is slow in reading and write speed and consumes more power compared to SSD which has a way faster read/write speed and consumes less power . Its specs are as below.
Storage : 1TB 5400RPM HDD + 128GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD
Battery: 45Wh 3 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 3 hours and 44 minutes on DWSIM simulator.
CPU : 1.0GHz 4 Core 10th Gen Intel Core i5-1035G1 Processor
RAM : 2400MHz 8GB DDR4
Storage : 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD
Display : 14-inch FHD display | IPS & Anti-glare panel | 238 nits
Battery: 48Wh 4 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 4 hours and 13 minutes on DWSIM simulator.
Weight : 1.19 Kg (2.6 Pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 32 x 21.7 x 1.6 cms
Very thin bezels
Display has higher than average contrast ratio
Smooth and responsive clickable touchpad
Pretty solid all-metal build
Has a thunderbolt port
Below an average bright display
Bad placement of the Page Up/Down and arrow keys
Page Up/Down and Arrow keys are too small led to miss press
Poor screen color gamut
Web and Android Programming
This lightweight Acer Swift 3 laptop is powered by medium level specs hardware. The keyboard gives pretty tactile feedback.
And, the touchpad found smooth, responsive, and accurate despite not using Windows precision drivers. The display is below an average brighter with poor color gamut. But, not problematic for chemical engineers.
Storage : 1TB 5400RPM HDD + 256GB PCIe NVMe SSD
Display : 15.6-inch FHD display | IPS & Anti-glare panel | 300 nits
Battery: 52.5Wh 3 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 5 hours and 12 minutes on DWSIM simulator.
Weight : 1.95 Kg (4.3 Pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 35.8 x 24.5 x 1.7 cms
Small bezels
180-degree hinge
Smooth switch between software
Overall optimized powerful performance
Speakers are just okay and clear at max volume
No Optical drive
Touchpad below an average small
2 Arrow keys are smaller and not well-placed
Run CFD and Flow-3D
Desktop Programming
This Lenovo IdeaPad is different from the previous one in display specs.
This one has 15.6-inch FHD display which below an average brighter and has average color gamut results. The keyboard does give pretty nice tactile feedback. Touchpad will be impressive if the size was large otherwise fine. Except ANSYS, all the 17 chemical engineering specific software will run smoothly on this laptop.
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CPU : 1.8GHz 10th Gen 4 Core Intel Core i7-10510U | 8 MB Smart cache
Graphics : NVIDIA GeForce MX250 2GB GDDR5
Storage : 1TB 5400RPM HDD + 256GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD
Battery: 52.5Wh 3 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 4 hours and 49 minutes on DWSIM simulator
Weight : 1.8 Kg (4 Pounds)
Run ANSYS, CFD, and Flow-3D
This Core-i7 version Lenovo IdeaPad S540 is powerful enough to run ANSYS on it. Furthermore, the 2GB NVIDIA MX250 GPU allows to run multiple graphics intensive tasks.
Read the full review of Lenovo IdeaPad S540 (Core i7) laptop here .
CPU : 1.6GHz 8th Gen Intel Core i5 Processor
Graphics : Dedicated NVIDIA GeForce MX150 2GB GDDR5
RAM: 2400MHz 8GB DDR4
Display : 15.6-inche FHD display | IPS panel | 237 nits
Battery: 42Wh 1 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 3 hours and 58 minutes on DWSIM simulator.
Weight : 1.87 kg (4.1 Pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 36.1 x 24.5 x 1.88 cm
Just okay keyboard
A fairly adequate and responsive touchpad
Speakers are just okay
Low battery life
Below an average brighter display with poor color gamut results
Arrow keys are small, also not well-placed
This Dell Inspiron series laptop is looks premium in design. But, the laptop specs are not much impressive. Its keyboard is just okay. The tactile feedback isn't much impressive as it should be. But, the touchpad is fairly responsive and smooth despite not using Windows precision drivers.
CPU : 1.0GHz 4 Core 10th Gen Intel Core i5-1035G1 Processor | 6MB cache, 3.6GHz Max.
Graphics : Integrated Intel UHD Graphics
RAM : 3733MHz 8GB LPDDR4X
Storage : 512GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD + 32GB Intel Optane Memory
Battery : 72Wh 4 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 7 hours and 41 minutes on DWSIM simulation.
Wireless connectivity : 802.11ax 2×2 Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.0
Weight : 3lb (1.35kg)
Laptop dimensions : 32.3 x 20.8 x 1.7 cms
Thunderbolt-3 port which also support Display port and power delivery
Smooth, responsive, and accurate precision-enabled touchpad
Fingerprint sensor with Windows Hello support
Wide viewing angles display
Intel Optane memory
Average quality camera and microphone
No Windows Hello support for camera
Fingerprints show up but easy to clean
Speakers are below-average loud
Display is little below-average brighter
Small and very closely placed 4 arrow keys
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This ASUS VivoBook S14 S403JA is not an incredible machine. During my testings, I have found that all of ANSYS, CFD, and Flow-3D weren't able to run on it. But, due to its average-quality display, I found it useful for the content creation for non-professionals. Its keyboard has nice tactile feedback to give. Also, the precision-enabled glass-surface touch found smooth, responsive, and accurate.
Read the full review of Asus VivoBook S14 S403JA laptop here .
CPU : 2.3GHz 4 Core AMD Ryzen 7 3700U Processor
Graphics : AMD Radeon RX Vega 10 GPU
Display : 15.6-inch FHD display | 220 nits
Battery: 41Wh 3 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 3 hours and 51 minutes on DWSIM simulator
Weight : 1.77 kg (3.90 Pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 35.8 x 24.2 x 1.8 cms
Much storage
High CPU clock speed
Just smooth touchpad
Speakre are fairly loud and clear at max volume
Simple design
Bad keyboard
Keys travel very less distance
Not much bright display
The HP 15s EQ0132AU isn't high-end machine to run the heavy chemical engineering software. When compared to the all above laptops I have tested, I found it little below an average in terms of keyboard, touchpad, and display. But, if you've no plan to use ANSYS, CFD, and Flow-3D, you can go for it. It cannot be helpful in content creation also.
CPU : 1.8GHz 8th Generation Intel Core i7-8550U Processor | 8MB Cache
Graphics : Dedicated NVIDIA GeForce MX130 4GB GDDR5
RAM : 2400MHz 16GB DDR4
Display : 15.6-inch UHD display | IPS panel
Battery: 42Wh Li-ion battery | Lasted for 4 hours and 35 minutes on DWSIM simulator
Weight : 2.16 kg (4.76 pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 36.14 x 24.45 x 1.88 cm
Impressive Ultra-HD display
Accurate touchpad
Attractive design
Overall performance
Keys have tactile feedback
Enough space between the keys
Not a smooth interior
Bit heavy
Speakers are loud at max volume but below an average in quality
The Dell Inspiron 7570 is pretty attractive laptop. It has also high-end specs like Core-i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM, and NVIDIA MX130 GPU. It is able to run ANSYS, CFD, and Flow-3D. At the same time, the keyboard is also pretty tactile and a touchpad is smooth.
CPU : 1.0GHz 10th Gen 4 Core Intel Core i5-1035G1 Processor | 6MB Cache
RAM : 2666MHz 8GB DDR4 | Expandable up to 12GB
Storage : 1TB 5400RPM + 256GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD
Display : 15.6-inch FHD display | IPS & Anti-Glare panel
Battery: 52.5Wh 3 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 5 hours and 7 minutes during DWSIM simulation.
Weight : 1.79 kg (3.95 Pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 35.8 x 24.5 x 1.8 cms
Near to fair performance
Dedicated GPU
Expansion option for RAM
Well responding smooth touchpad to gestures
Keys have 2-level backlit
Below an average and a color-accurate display
Bad tactile keyboard
Worst placement of Up/Down arrow keys
Disappointing speakers
This IdeaPad S340 is not much powerful engineering laptop. It has a Core-i5 CPU with NVIDIA MX250 2GB GPU. The specs are just average. In addition to that, keyboard and touchpad are also not impressive.
CPU : 1.6GHz 10th Gen 4 Core Intel Core i5-10210U Processor | 6MB Cache
RAM : 2666MHz 8GB DDR4
Storage : 512GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD | Also expansion slot is available
Battery: 50Wh 3 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 5 hours and 11 minutes during DWSIM simulation.
Weight : 1.4 kg (3.08 Pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 32.49 x 21.35 x 1.59 cms
Fair enough performance
Impressive color-accurate display
Good keyboard with tactile feedback
A smooth, responsive, and accurate precision touchpad
Long-lasting battery - above an average
The best placement of fingerprint reader
High strength compared to Mg-alloy build
Option for SSD expansion
Quick Charge technology isn't much useful
Small and bad placement of arrow keys
Distracting green color highlighted Enter key
This Asus VivoBook S14 S433FL has pretty impressive display for content creation. It is lightweight and medium-specs laptop. During my testings, I found something weird that this laptop was able to run CFD and Flow-3D very smoothly.
The keyboard has prettty tactile fedback to give and a touchpad is smooth and responsive enough.
CPU : 1.0GHz 10th Gen Intel Core i5-1035G1 Processor | 4MB Cache
Graphics : Dedicated NVIDIA MX230 2GB GDDR5 Graphics
Display : 15.6-inch FHD display | TN panel
Battery: 42Wh 3 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 4 hours and 22 minutes on DWSIM simulator.
Weight : 2 kg (4.4 Pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 38 x 22.58 x 2.27 cms
Slightly above an average battery
A smooth and responsive touchpad
Low display contrast and bad viewing angles
Less bright display
Bad cooling solution with only a single fan
The Interior is a fingerprint magnet and hard to clean
Heavy
Run ANSYS, Flow-3D
Dell Inspiron 3593 has something more disappointing than impressive. The plastic unibody lead to more flex on keyboard and display both. Among the many poor things, It has a pretty tactile keyboard and smooth and responsive touchpad. Although, the touchpad is made of plastic. And, the display also has no IPS panel, So, not good viewing angles compared to IPS display.
CPU : 1.0GHz 10th Gen Intel Core i5-1035G1 Processor
Graphics : Dedicated NVIDIA MX130 2GB GDDR5 Graphics
Display : 15.6-inch FHD display | IPS panel
Battery: 41Wh 3 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 3 hours and 49 minutes on DWSIM simulator.
Weight : 1.76 kg (3.88 Pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 35.9 x 24.2 x 2 cms
Average weight
Not a bad display
The keyboard isn't clicky
Touchpad is disappointing
Less than average battery life
Speakers are not loud at max volume
Poor thermal management
Run ANSYS, CFD and Flow-3D
This HP 15 15s laptop isn't much good and comes at a low price. This laptop doesn't look premium like Lenovo Laptops. It has a Core-i5 processor with old version of MX series NVIDIA GPU. With 8GB of RAM, you gonna enjoy multitasking, but overall I am just disappointed with this laptop. Since, I have issues with CFD and Flow-3D. ANSYS hasn't even installed due to low-specs.
CPU : 1.6GHz 8th Gen Intel Core i5-8265U Processor
Graphics : Dedicated NVIDIA MX150 2GB GDDR5 Graphics
Display : 14-inch FHD display | IPS panel
Battery: 41Wh 3 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 3 hours and 51 minutes during DWSIM simulation.
Weight : 1.6 kg (3.53 Pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 32.7 x 22.2 x 1.8 cms
Slightly Lightweight
High and fast storage
The display isn't bright and color accurate
Bad tactile feedback
The touchpad is smooth and responsive but not accurate
Below an average battery life
Speakers are not great
This HP Pavilion 14 laptop is an entry-level machine for chemical engineering students. Though it has a dedicated GPU, SSD storage, and a Core-i5 CPU, it's not able to run ANSYS, CFD, and Flow-3D.
CPU : 1.0GHz 4 Core 10th Gen Intel Core i5-1035G1 Processor | 6MB Smart Cache
Graphics : Integrated Intel Graphics
Display : 14-inch FHD display | IPS & Anti-glare panel | 220 nits
Battery: 52.5Wh 3 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 5 hours and 36 minutes on DWSIM simulator.
Weight : 1.55 kg (3.42 Pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 32.3 x 23 x 1.8 cms
This Lenovo Ideapad S340 has the same build material with keyboard, touchpad, and display (not a size here) quality including the speakers to Lenovo IdeaPad S340 (15.6-inch) laptop . But, the performance and battery life are changes. Moreover, similar to the 15.6-inch version, this one has no thunderbolt port.
This Lenovo IdeaPad S340 14-inch laptop is powered by the Intel Core i5 processor with Intel integrated GPU. Such low specs aren't enough to run ANSYS and Flow-3D. But, unlike its 15.6-inch version, this laptop isn't able to run CFD due to no high-end graphics. But, the rest of the 16 major popular software were run smoothly. The 52.5Wh battery lasted for 5 hours and 36 minutes which is quite more than a 15.6-inch model. And, it is also lightweight compared to its brother.
Display : 14-inch FHD display | IPS & Anti-glare panel | 221 nits
Battery: 41Wh 3 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 4 hours and 47 minutes on DWSIM simulator.
Weight : 1.59 kg (3.50 Pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 32.7 x 22.6 x 1.8 cms
Above an average battery life
Good viewing angles display
Keyboard has backlit
Speakers are good but not incredible
Display brightness is below an average
Keyboard has no tactile feedback
Up/Down arrow keys are too small and poorly placed
Android Programming
This laptop is powered by Intel Core i5 processor with Intel Integrated Graphics. So, such specs are not enough to run ANSYS, CFD, and Flow-3D. But, the other 16 CH-Engg software will definitely run smoothly. The 41Wh battery lasted for 4 hours and 47 minutes during DWSIM simulation. So, overall pretty nice if you have no plan to use the main three software that I have mentioned earlier.
Display : 15.6-inch FHD display | IPS & Anti-glare panel | 238 nits
Battery: 42Wh Li-ion battery | Lasted for 3 hours and 43 minutes on DWSIM simulator.
Weight : 1.61 kg (3.56 Pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 36.07 x 24.13 x 1.78 cms
A high amount of storage
Pretty impressive design
Low screen color gamut
Overall disappointing keyboard
Smooth touchpad doesn't support all gestures
Poor battery life
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Asus VivoBook S510 has Core-i7 processor with no dedicated GPU. Hence, the graphics intensive task won't run on this machine. In my tests, I have found that it's not possible to run ANSYS, CFD, and Flow-3D smoothly.
CPU : 1.0GHz 10th Gen 4 Core Intel Core i5-1035G1 Processor | 6MB Smart cache
Graphics : NVIDIA GeForce MX330 2GB GDDR5
RAM : 3200MHz 8GB DDR4 | Expandable up to 12GB
Battery: 37Wh 2 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 1 hour and 58 minutes during DWSIM simulation.
Weight: 1.75 kg (3.86 pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 35.7 x 23 x 2 cms
High storage
Medium weight
Expandable RAM
Pretty low battery life than average
Bad viewing angles display
Less bright display with a low contrast ratio
The plastic body led to more flex in the keyboard than average
Run CFD anf Flow-3D
This laptop is powered by Intel Core i5 CPU with NVIDIA MX330 2GB GPU. So, the specs are pretty high but such specs won't able to run ANSYS and Flow-3D. But, CFD has run without lag, thanks to its GPU. The 37Wh battery lasted for 1 hour and 58 minutes during DWSIM simulation - too low battery life than other laptops I have tested. Furthermore, this laptop has no thunderbolt port which means no way to transfer the data at 40Gbps speed.
CPU : 2.1GHz 4 Core AMD Ryzen 5-3500U Processor | 6MB Smart cache
Graphics : Integrated AMD Radeon Vega 8
Display : 14-inch FHD touch display | IPS panel
Battery: 42Wh 3 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 2 hours and 29 minutes during DWSIM simulation.
Weight: 1.6 kg (3.53 pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 32.2 x 21.5 x 1.9 cms
Good touch display with a nice color gamut
Feels medium weight
Comfortable keyboard with pretty clicky keys
Smooth precision touchpad
2-in-1 convertibility without detaching a display
Speakers are not up to the mark
Quite low battery life
Bad placement of Up/Down arrow keys
This slim laptop is powered by AMD Ryzen-5 processor which is nearly equivalent to Intel Core i5, with AMD Radeon Vega 8 GPU. So, you gonna definitely not able to run ANSYS, Flow-3D, and CFD. But, the rest of the software were run smoothly. The 42Wh battery lasted for 2 hours and 29 minutes which is the lowest compared to the other laptops I have tested. So, If you have battery concerns, better to go with Lenovo IdeaPads, ThinkPads, Dell XPS 9370 and Inspiron-series laptops.
The higher specs laptop with low battery and graphical performance!
CPU : 1.6GHz 8th Gen 4 Core Intel Core i5-8265U Processor | 6MB Smart cache
Display : 15.6-inch FHD display
Battery: 35Wh 2 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 2 hours and 5 minutes during DWSIM simulation
Weight: 1.85 kg (4 pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 36.2 x 25.1 x 2 cm
Pretty sturdy plastic build
Speakers are enough loud
Below-average camera and microphone quality
Fingerprints do show up
Keyboard is inconsistent in tactile feedback
Low bright display
Touchpad isn’t Windows Precision unit
Inaccurate gestures handling
Little below-average thermal management
Bad placement of Enter-key
Web/Desktop Programming
Android Programming without emulators
This Lenovo IdeaPad is powered by the Intel Core i5 processor. The high-graphical tasks are disappointing. Our tests of the chemical engineering-specific software revealed that ANSYS's software won't run.
Furthermore, Flow-3D's performance was disappointing. So, overall this laptop is not for those who are going to use it on-the-way due to its low battery life. The battery is just a 35Wh battery and lasted for 2 hours and 5 minutes during DWSIM simulation.
Read the full review of Lenovo IdeaPad S145 laptop here .
All it lacks is an SSD storage in this mid-budget high-end specs laptop!
CPU : 2.3GHz 4 Core 8th Gen Intel Core i5-8300H Processor | 8MB Smart cache
Graphics : Dedicated NVIDIA GTX 1050 4GB GDDR5
Storage : 1TB 5400RPM HDD
Display: 15.6-inch FHD display | IPS panel
Battery: 45Wh 3 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 4 hours and 23 minutes during DWSIM simulation
Weight : 2.2 kg (4.85 Pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 37.8 x 26 x 2.3 cm
Nice look
Pretty fine display
No SSD
Bad keyboard and touchpad
Speakers are loud with a little bass
This laptop is powered by Intel Core i5 and NVIDIA GTX 1050 4GB graphics. So, our tests to run that software found one common thing - They are not loading fast while launching. But, Since it has higher specs CPU, apart from ANSYS's and Flow-3D software, all ran without lag. Furthermore, the loading of the parallel project was pretty disappointing due to a slow HDD. It has no SSD storage, and the HDD has only 5400 RPM. The HDDs are always slow in loading the files.
CPU : 2.29 GHz 8th Gen Intel Core i5 processor
Graphics : Discrete AMD Radeon-530 4GB GDDR5
Storage : 2TB 5400RPM HDD
Battery: 42Wh 4 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for roughly 4 hours and 27 minutes during DWSIM simulation
Weight : 2.12 kg (4.7 Pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 38 x 25.8 x 1.9 cm
Higher storage
Smooth touchpad
No 180-degree hinge
No backlit keyboard
Disappointing GPU performance
The Interior is a fingerprint magnet
Very low color gamut display
This laptop is powered by Intel Core-i5 CPU and AMD Radeon-530 4GB graphics. So, my tests on this one left me with a thought that It would be great if it has at least 128 GB SSD storage. Furthermore, you can't run ANSYS's software on it. I have encountered issues while launching large projects on this software.
Wanna touchscreen laptop with high-end specs, Here it is!
CPU : 1.6GHz 4 Core 8th Gen Intel i5-8250U Processor
Graphics : Intel UHD Graphics 620
Storage : 2TB 5400RPM HDD + 128GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD
Display : 15.6-inch touchscreen HD display | IPS panel
Battery: 42Wh 3 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 3 hours and 12 minutes during DWSIM simulation
Laptop dimensions: 38 x 25.37 x 2.39 cms
Much storage with SSD
Touchscreen display
No 1080p screen
Bad touch response
No backlit on the keyboard
Just okay touchpad
The laptop is powered by the 8th Gen Intel Core i5 processor with Intel Ultra-HD graphics 620. And it has an SSD! My tests revealed that ANSYS's software and Flow-3D weren't running on it. Although the switching between apps was quite smooth thanks to its 8GB DDR4 RAM. Furthermore, The project files were loading very fast, thanks to its SSD storage. So, overall this laptop will be pretty awesome for you if you are going to use it on the desk all the time.
CPU : 1.1GHz 4 Core 10th Gen Intel i5-1035G1 Processor | 6MB Cache
Graphics : Intel HD Graphics 620
RAM : 2400MHz 8GB DDR4 | Expandable up to 16GB
Display : 14-inch FHD display | IPS panel | 231 nits
Battery: 41Wh 3 Cell Li-ion battery | Lasted for 3 hours and 48 minutes during DWSIM simulation
Weight : 1.51 kg (3.33 Pounds)
Laptop dimensions: 32.4 x 22.5 x 1.9 cms
Average performance
RAM expansion option available
Hybrid storage
No dedicated Graphics chip
Quite disappointing screen color gamut
The keyboard has a bad tactile keyboard
Smooth touchpad handle the gestures inaccurately
Battery life is below an average
Disappointing sound of speakers at maximum volume
This laptop is powered by Intel Core i5 CPU with Intel HD 620 GPU. So, no ways to run ANSYS, CFD, and Flow-3D. Hence, plan to buy this laptop according to the software you want to use now or in the future. The 41Wh battery lasted for 3 hours and 48 minutes during DWSIM simulation. The battery life seems below an average compared to Dell XPS 9370 , Lenovo ThinkPad T490 , Dell Inspiron 7570 , and LG Gram . Lastly, the 2 down-firing speakers are also disappointing due to unclear sound and little bass present at maximum volume.
As the goal is to find the best laptops for chemical engineering students and professionals, I have found out and listed them according to the software you're going to use on it.
As mentioned in my Laptop Buying Guide written specifically for chemical engineering students, I have tested all 19 software mentioned in that guide on these laptops and, shown the results that the laptop you're going to buy is capable enough to run it or not.
Among the 19 software, the major software are ANSYS, CFD, and Flow-3D. Although Aspen Software(s) are also high-level ones, they have no requirements for the high-end specs in a laptop. So, I have installed and tried to run all of the software in the trial version. So, many laptops are here in this article, in which ANSYS, CFD, and Flow-3D are not even installed due to low specs, but some laptops like Dell XPS 9370 , Lenovo ThinkPad T490 , Acer Swift 5 , and Mi NoteBook Horizon 14 Edition were run it smoothly.
So, by doing such tests, I have shown you that don't buy a laptop if you're going to use the software is not capable of running on it. Also, the battery life mentioned by the manufacturers is not the exact one. For example, to test the battery life and thermal management, I have used the DWSIM simulator. DWSIM simulator is the software in which tens of hundreds of process sets and lists of the organic chemicals. So, You have to arrange the chemical equipment like Distillation, Absorption columns, Heater and Cooler, Energy sources, and many more to design the process and to simulate it before applying it to the real-world experiment. Also, DWSIM supports drag and drop, So using a touchscreen laptop to design the process was an awesome experience for me.
In addition to that, to develop a process model, I have used Microsoft Excel, SciLab, and MATLAB (A trial version). So, such software requires long-term programming, which means, the keyboard and touchpad should feel comfortable. Hence, by such testings, I have shown that whether the keys are clicky or not, whether the touchpad is smooth, responsive, and accurate to handle the gestures. So, by doing process designing, simulation, and mathematical modeling, I have tested battery life, laptop performance, and thermal management.
In my testings, I have found that laptops with 16GB of RAM, NVIDIA MX250 or more GPU with 2GB of at least Graphics memory, and Intel Core i7 or above or AMD Ryzen 7 or above version CPU specs can run the all 19 software including the ANSYS, CFD, and Flow-3D.
Also, note that the display quality doesn't matter in the laptop selection for this field of engineering. But, I have tried to provide you the display with an IPS & Anti-glare panel. So, you will get a better viewing angles display. There are two laptops in this article that have a TN panel display, they are Dell Inspiron 3593 and Asus VivoBook 15 . If you don't know what's the difference between TN and IPS panel, and how it will affect the display quality, see the below picture.
Also, note that Dell XPS 9370 and Lenovo ThinkPad T490 were able to run ANSYS and CFD, ANSYS and Flow-3D, and CFD and Flow-3D in parallel without a single lag.
Also, read Why Thanalysis recommends Amazon to buy a laptop online?
Also, I have written an article that best describes the laptop's specs in easy-to-understand language . So, that's all I wanted to convey on the best laptops to buy in 2021 for the chemical engineering students.
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