Dear Comrade, this is a bluffing cartoonist who is talking to you!!!
I tried a surface pro4 i7 512SSD 16GB intel iris card with SW 2014....
Apart from the size of the screen which does not make the design easy I encountered a fluidity of design equal to a mobile workstation for 2300€
of course we forget about the tactil and we equip ourselves with a good mouse with the small keyboard that fits well, and we have an ULTRA mobile work possibility.
Once connected to a reasonably sized external screen, this tablet has nothing to envy to its laptop competitors.
I don't think the experience would have been the same if SW 2016 was installed on it
"Stef Beno" indeed the Nvidia M5000, M6000, K series cards... and SW card goes on in this case. I contacted the company, having confirmed that it was already done by users and using Windows on their Mac Book Pro, Mac pro etc etc.
For emulation, Fusion 8 would be the best compromise...
The other problem I see is that it's a shame to have a laptop if it's to get an external box (not small by the way) to compensate for a lack when there are integrated solutions (admittedly less "smart").
Don't forget that this box will have to be powered...
For those interested, there are various solutions including a company: https://bizon-tech.com/ that I contacted and provided me with the following information:
have double-checked the compatibility information, unfortunately, Quadro M4000, M5000 and M6000 will not work.
Only these Quadro GPUs are compatible: Quadro K4000, Quadro K4200, Quadro K5000, Quadro K5200, Quadro K6000.
The BizonBOX 3 has enough bandwidth to use any of this GPUs at 95-97%.
Case working in Thunderbolt 3 with a rather reasonable footprint and beautiful design.
(Product with a possible warranty extension, which is not negligible...).
For comparisons, I will contact the company "Sonnet" in order to have the compatibility table of Nvidia graphics cards... and know the bandwidth capacities.
It is not recommended to use Macs to work on SolidWorks. This is of course possible thanks to the possibility of installing a Windows operating system on your Mac. Those who use a Mac to work on SolidWorks are savvy Mac users and use it for everything else. The problem is that running two operating systems in parallel requires double the resources and therefore the capacities of the machine will be limited, especially RAM and graphics card. The CPU, on the other hand, the more cores it has, the lower the clock speed and SolidWorks prefers the opposite, a faster clock speed preferable to multiple cores. Mac offers Quad-core or dual quad-core in its best machines. Poor choice for SolidWorks which runs better on fast dual-cores which is also cheaper.