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I'm currently going to school for Engineering and I'm in need of a laptop that's able to run programs like AutoCAD, Inventor, Solid Works, Master Cam, etc. What would be a good laptop for this?
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Whats your Price range?

I have a friend who is majoring in Mechanical engineering and he brought a surface and loved it
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C4 wrote Whats your Price range?

I have a friend who is majoring in Mechanical engineering and he brought a surface and loved it


Not trying to spend $1200+ like some of these gaming laptops out here because I already have a good desktop for that. I'd say a couple hundred
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You aren't going to get any worthwhile laptop for that price considering you plan to use it for CAD software. You can get something like a crappy chromebook for that price.

If you want to use CAD software for your laptop, you need to look into raising your budget significantly; you have a desktop anyway like you said so just use that?
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-Deano wrote You aren't going to get any worthwhile laptop for that price considering you plan to use it for CAD software. You can get something like a crappy chromebook for that price.

If you want to use CAD software for your laptop, you need to look into raising your budget significantly; you have a desktop anyway like you said so just use that?


Honestly he has a good point in that. A gaming laptop is just buzzwords, it doesn't mean that it'll be bad for something like CAD development at all, if anything far better considering the process. It doesn't help if you're in the states too where companies are now passing the burden onto the consumers for PC hardware so making actually really decent PCs for 1,000 bucks is becoming quickly pretty hard. If anything I'd look into redesigning your current PC to be into a small form factor manner and making it more portable.
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