Laptop Advice needed

[MarcoJEls]

Hello fellow users of the internets! 

 

I need your help please! I am looking into buying a laptop for school. It will have to be able to run Revit 2014, as I take EGD, and will last me at least 2 years. I will also be using it for basic programming and microsoft office. Other than that I don't really need that much performance as I have a dedicated PC for gaming and rendering my Revit projects. Budget is a bit tight though, $500 max (maybe a little bit more), but I would love to hear what you guys suggest.

 

Thanks in advance!!!

[ThatN64Guy]

500 is an extremely tight budget...not much to choose from just aim for something with an i7...but for 500 that is gonna be weird.

[GerbiLock]

I would personally go search around the second hand market. 500 bucks is a really tight budget as ThatN64Guy said, especially for your usage scenario. You can find used ThinkPads equipped with Quadros that would be brilliant for 3D modeling. Better to go buy used Laptops with killer and still relevant hardware rather than a mediocre one because of your budget. 

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-W520-15-6-Intel-Core-I7-2-4Gz-2760QM-SSD-128Gb-320-HDD-8GB-WINDOWS-8/191168943677?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D22853%26meid%3D6945793336079405003%26pid%3D100005%26prg%3D9833%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D251527819302&rt=nc

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-ThinkPad-W520-i7-2760QM-FHD-16GB-RAM-160GB-SSD-500GB-HD-2GB-Quadro-/251527819302?pt=Laptops_Nov05&hash=item3a9039f026