GFX and Video Rendering Laptop for ~$500

[TehOverride]

Hey TomsHardware,

First off im kind of a noob when it comes to stuff like this but im learning,

I'm looking for something that has 8 gbs of RAM, and at least a 400 gb HDD and a 3.0 GHz processor, i dont really care about other stuff just looking for something that can render my graphics design and videos fairly quickly, any and all help is appreciated

Thanks.

 

[Beezy]

The best you will do within that budget is the Lenovo G505s. It's on sale right now for $460 with:

AMD A10-5750M Quad-Core Processor
6GB RAM
1TB HDD
AMD Radeon HD 8650G Graphics
15.6" 1366x768 Display

It normally goes for over $500, and it's really not common to see even 6GB RAM in this price range, much less 8GB.

APUs are incredibly weak, and will not make a good rendering machine at all! the nature of a laptop is sacrifices. youre trading vast amounts of performance for portability. Laptops run hot, just browsing the web for a couple hours, rendering on a laptop will run incredibly hot and run the life of the components down, fast.

Strongly consider a PC instead of a laptop

 

[Beezy]

its just "rendering laptop" feels oxy moronic to me.

 

[TehOverride]

its just "rendering laptop" feels oxy moronic to me.

Okay so if we moved onto Desktops what would i be looking at?