Cheap notebook for school?

[DenVu]

Hi ! Another question !

 

so im Studying Bouwkunde which in English is called building engineering if im not mistaken.

I was hoping that i didnt need a laptop for school but 2 weeks into college i noticed that its way better to have a pc of youre own at school (because the pc's at school are few in numbers and very slow)

 

so i was thinking of spending something between 600-700 Euros (this is what i classify as affordable but personel opinion differs). I have to use AutoCAD and Revit, i would also use it to play low demanding games in a Lan situation with friends (so not competetively) such as cs go, minecraft etc I was also thinking about the form factor is 17,3" to big to carry around? also Wouldnt a GT740m on a lower resulation absolutly dominate the GT720M on a higher resolution or is the 720M enough for my needs And the diffence in cpu surely is a factor aswell. Which one would you pick or do you have a better recomendation?

 

so the 2 notebooks im looking at have the following specs

 

notebook 1

 

17,3" 1600 x 900

 

ram: 6GB 1600 MHz

cpu: i5-3230M 2,6GHz (3,2 GHz)

Gpu: GT720M

 

(€660)

 

notebook 2

 

15,6" 1366 x 768

 

ram: 6GB 1600 MHz

cpu: i5-3337U 1,8GHz (2,7GHz turbo)

gpu:GT740M

 

(€650)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Samdb]

I would go for the second it's more flexible and you may be able to play a game or two on it as most games are GPU bound not CPU bound anymore.

[Guest]

I would go with notebook 2 if I had to choose between the two, the better price point and better bang for your buck performance is good.

 

But if you want something cheaper, I would recommend an AMD based laptop. Much cheaper.

[DenVu]

I would go for the second it's more flexible and you may be able to play a game or two on it as most games are GPU bound not CPU bound anymore.

thats exaclty What i was thinking thanks for the replies im pretty sure  you have answerred more of my questions