Dell Precision laptop workstations have been my go to machines since the early 2000s. I swear by them and I build 25K+ components assemblies. I agree with u/MountainDewFountain - make sure that they are getting one with a properly certified GPU - the nVidia RTX Ada series are THE ONLY way to go IMO. More on reddit.com

The professional RTX cards have "CAD certified" drivers, meaning NVidia and the software manufacturers test and tune them for professional software packages, while the "normal" drivers are more oriented for Gaming... Also, the cards are, while very similar, not the same... a good article about that is this one , although it focuses on desktop cards... The old rule of thumb is "you want fps, go GTX. You want CUDA, go Quadro/RTX". From what i hear from the CAD people, that still holds... On the other hand, in the Laptop environment, the differences are not that much, because of the limits defined by the form factor of the cards and the thermal limits in the laptop... Which is one reason real high-end setups on laptops are not really comparable to desktop workstation setups... So, there's no RTX 8000 with 48GB VRAM for the laptop... ;-) That said, Maya should work without a problem with the 5070 too... More on reddit.com

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Specs will matter a lot. Precision 3591 is likely to come with an RTX AX000 or RTX A500 GPU. Those are officially supported GPUs for most engineering software. I work with AutoCad and I have a Precision with an A3000. It’s been incredible. I’d definitely shoot for the 3591 if I were you. In fact that’s what we spec or did since it’s discontinued, for our staff that requires a laptop. More on reddit.com