Literally the title. I’m starting mechanical engineering and know that historically Mac’s suck at engineering software, but does that still is true nowadays? Speaking mainly for Solidworks because i know there isn’t a version for macOS, and really don’t know if there’s an alternative for using it (e.g. parallels)
If you’re having to worry about it I would say don’t even consider a Mac for this. Get something that will reliably allow you to go through your course workload without the need to have to depend on on-campus labs if posible.
Intels used to be able to do boot camp but I would not recommend you get an old Intel Mac. Get a a Windows machine that meets your needs.
Parallels may work but you’ll have to research all the software you need to see if it will even be able to run on the ARM architecture.