Hey I don’t know if this is useful to your question but I am going to be a freshman in mechanical engineering this fall and my school as a part of a scholarship gives us a dell precision 3591, sorry I cant be more specific as I don't know much about the computer myself but at the very least I can say that my university finds them suitable for their engineering students! More on reddit.com

Mind including your budget, to make the recommendations a bit easier? 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

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