Laptop Recommendations (Sub-1000$ Price Range)

rphlfjrd · August 7, 2015

Recently I had a thought of restoring one of my older laptops just for fun but now I don't really see it neccesary and might just be a waste of money. Need to replace heat sink and display, rocking an old Intel Core2 Quad Q9000 and ATI Radeon HD 4850x2. It's better to invest the money for a new laptop.

Any of you guys could recommend a laptop from the 500-1000$ price range? It would be used for college work, mostly the Adobe Creative Cloud suite since I am a multimedia student. I prefer it to be 13"-15" 1080p but if there are better deals then it would do. Also a discrete graphics card just for the extra horsepower in rendering (also for light gaming and possibly programming) would be nice. 8GB of RAM is minimum. I don't care about the storage as long as it has 2.5" drives, it's cheaper to provide your own than to let the oem upgrade it. It would be nice if I could easily carry it around as well.

I'm looking at the Acer Aspire V15 Nitro, but I've read somewhere that it faces thermal issues because of its thinness. Macbook Air is not an option because of the TN Panel. Also, are dedicated GPU worth it these days? Are integrated graphics powerful enough?

Thanks.

(I posted it in the wrong subforum so I'll repost it again. My bad. :wub: :wub: )