Previously where I worked in R&D, we used to deal with quite large elements and we ran those cases on workstations sometimes with 48 cores...etc
I'm looking to buy a new personal laptop and I'm not sure what specs should I care for for my CFD learning, whether on OpenFOAM or other commercial software. Should I care for the graphics card as much as RAM, Storage and Processor? What about number of cores/threads...Any source I can read on that or experience?