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I will be attending university where my courses include Autocadworking on AutoCAD 2016 3D, sketchup and Geographic information systems (GIS) softwares. Ithere will I want to buy a laptop that I could use during my university and hopefully professionally in the future. I am not looking for the bare minimum nor top of the line. I would like to invest around $1600 infor it. my main requirements are being able to work efficiently, weight under 5 lbs, good battery life

I did hear AutoCAD will not utilize more than one core as it is not a multi-thread application (is this true?) so to instead focus on a processorhope someone can help me with higher cache memory would I need a dedicated graphics card? some people say get a gaming laptop, but most are closer to $2000 and too heavy (over 5 lbs).these questions

  • I did hear AutoCAD will not utilize more than one core as it is not a multi-thread application (is this true even if I will be doing 3D?)
  • I was told I would need a dedicated graphics card so is it necessary to go for the i7-xxxxHQ / HK etc or would a i7-xxxxU be better? the reason I ask this because I read that the higher end processors use up a lot of space for integrated graphics and plugging in a graphics card just nullifies all that.
  • the laptop I currently own is almost 10 yrs old so I need a new laptop. is it worth trying to invest in an expensive laptop to suit all my needs or should I just get a normal laptop for my personal use and invest in a desktop to use for these softwares?

i find that stores sales people just push a product they want to sell. so i was hoping someone here could suggest me a laptop / specifications that i could buylook into.

thanks

I will be attending university where my courses include Autocad 3D and Geographic information systems (GIS). I want to buy a laptop that I could use during my university and hopefully professionally in the future. I am not looking for the bare minimum nor top of the line. I would like to invest around $1600 in it. my main requirements are being able to work efficiently, weight under 5 lbs, good battery life

I did hear AutoCAD will not utilize more than one core as it is not a multi-thread application (is this true?) so to instead focus on a processor with higher cache memory would I need a dedicated graphics card? some people say get a gaming laptop, but most are closer to $2000 and too heavy (over 5 lbs).

i find that stores sales people just push a product they want to sell. so i was hoping someone here could suggest me a laptop that i could buy.

thanks

I will be attending university where my courses include working on AutoCAD 2016 3D, sketchup and Geographic information systems (GIS) softwares. there will I want to buy a laptop that I could use during my university and hopefully professionally in the future. I am not looking for the bare minimum nor top of the line. I would like to invest around $1600 for it. my main requirements are being able to work efficiently, weight under 5 lbs, good battery life

hope someone can help me with these questions

  • I did hear AutoCAD will not utilize more than one core as it is not a multi-thread application (is this true even if I will be doing 3D?)
  • I was told I would need a dedicated graphics card so is it necessary to go for the i7-xxxxHQ / HK etc or would a i7-xxxxU be better? the reason I ask this because I read that the higher end processors use up a lot of space for integrated graphics and plugging in a graphics card just nullifies all that.
  • the laptop I currently own is almost 10 yrs old so I need a new laptop. is it worth trying to invest in an expensive laptop to suit all my needs or should I just get a normal laptop for my personal use and invest in a desktop to use for these softwares?

i find that stores sales people just push a product they want to sell. so i was hoping someone here could suggest me a laptop / specifications that i could look into.

thanks

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System requirements in laptop for a student Autocad 3D

I will be attending university where my courses include Autocad 3D and Geographic information systems (GIS). I want to buy a laptop that I could use during my university and hopefully professionally in the future. I am not looking for the bare minimum nor top of the line. I would like to invest around $1600 in it. my main requirements are being able to work efficiently, weight under 5 lbs, good battery life

I did hear AutoCAD will not utilize more than one core as it is not a multi-thread application (is this true?) so to instead focus on a processor with higher cache memory would I need a dedicated graphics card? some people say get a gaming laptop, but most are closer to $2000 and too heavy (over 5 lbs).

i find that stores sales people just push a product they want to sell. so i was hoping someone here could suggest me a laptop that i could buy.

thanks