Having seen NX be used in enterprise environments with some truly potato grade hardware, those minimum requirements seem like they’ve been given to your university by Siemens themselves or whatever company the university uses for their software management.
I would suggest a larger screen like @GoldenAngel1997 suggested, because the side bars of NX take up quite a bit of the model space on the screen. Having done 3 years of Matlab work on a dual-core 2015 Macbook pro, you can use basically anything for programming work. I’ve upgraded my laptop to a Framework 16, 7840HS, 64GB ram and the iGPU. It’s more than enough performance for ‘normal’ cad use, and is actually more graphically powerful than my official work workstation, that has an Nvidia 3000 series Quadro card and an 11th gen intel processor (6-core).
The main thing I would recommend is 32GB ram, but beyond that there aren’t too many things to worry about. For university work, you won’t be running anything too computationally intensive for a reason, they don’t want people to have to spend lots of money on new laptops when they start. In terms of simulations, if you’re using NX you’ll likely do FEA within NX itself. Even for work, it’s all done on CPU, and doesn’t take that long on modern hardware.
CFD is the only thing that is run on GPUs regularly, and that is done on the cloud so massive simulations can be run overnight or over a weekend. I wouldn’t worry about the GPU compute performance for now, but if it is something that you may eventually use, it’s going to be on university cluster hardware where you will remote in. GPU simulation is best used on very large datasets, where speedups are counted in hours or days, rather than minutes. You won’t (and shouldn’t) be expected to do anything this large at university.
I would also agree with @nutral, with getting a cpu that runs avx512, looking at AMD Zen4+. It helps, and is slightly faster for specific tasks. I would steer away from Intel at the moment, because CAD packages and simulation isn’t playing too nicely with multiple core architectures on one chip without a fair amount of manual tweaking and scheduling. My honest recommendation at the moment would be a Framework 13, with the 7640U or 7840U. You can go for the newer zen5 based chips, but I wouldn’t go above 8 cores on a laptop, I have a desktop for larger tasks as a preference.
[EDIT] I forgot to mention the most important thing with whatever you decide on getting. 250£/$/Eur of peripherals will make more of a difference to you than 5000£/$/Eur of compute hardware will. Make sure you have a few hundred left over for a good mouse (I’m partial to a Logitech MX master), and if you want to be fancy but ready for business level CAD, get a spacemouse too.
