Looking for New Laptop for Industrial Design

1) A hard drive in a laptop is pretty much blasphemy these days. Go SSD or go home.

2) Perhaps it would be better to actually get to school and see what others are using, before rushing into a purchase. Also, although the software you suggest can be used for some incredibly complex projects and renderings, most school programs won't have you doing anything on the order of the full capabilities of any of that software.

3) Give very serious consideration to building/buying yourself a desktop or similar that you can have at your house/dorm/whatever, to run that software on, if you really need to do it on a heavy duty basis. High-end GPU's, RAM, etc., really, really imposes a lot on a day-to-day user of a laptop, in terms of extra cost, lower battery life, heat, size/weight, etc.

4) Don't automatically assume that the software in question will be licensed to you for use outside of the labs, or even be economic for you to purchase for such use. Some vendors are great with complimentary student editions, license codes, etc. Some, not. So you might end up back at the labs anyways, as the cost of acquiring licenses may be prohibitive.