Howdy!
You guys provided me with a great amount of insight when helping me build a performance desktop for myself; now I'm hoping you can help me choose a performance laptop for a family member!
- laptop will be used at home and at work (transported back and forth each day so can't be too heavy)
- external screen is hooked up at work, while there's no external screen at home. Thus, I think the screen will need to be at a minimum 13", which good resolution
- personal use: laptop will not be used for gaming, mostly web browsing, watching tv (nothing intensive)
- work use: AutoCAD, Rhino, the Adobe suite (illustrator, Photoshop, indesign). The work is pretty intensive and her current laptop isn't cutting it. I'm not sure if these programs require a good graphics card or if it's just the processor which isn't cutting it but I'm thinking it'll need to be a haswell i7.
I've been looking at the yoga 2 pro (http
/shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/ideapad/yoga/yoga-2-pro/) and I think that may potentially be a good solution. She doesn't need a touchscreen and would be quite happy with windows 7 as opposed to 8, but it seems like most laptops these days are going with the touchsceen and windows 8.
Any thoughts or ideas?
Thank you!
You guys provided me with a great amount of insight when helping me build a performance desktop for myself; now I'm hoping you can help me choose a performance laptop for a family member!
- laptop will be used at home and at work (transported back and forth each day so can't be too heavy)
- external screen is hooked up at work, while there's no external screen at home. Thus, I think the screen will need to be at a minimum 13", which good resolution
- personal use: laptop will not be used for gaming, mostly web browsing, watching tv (nothing intensive)
- work use: AutoCAD, Rhino, the Adobe suite (illustrator, Photoshop, indesign). The work is pretty intensive and her current laptop isn't cutting it. I'm not sure if these programs require a good graphics card or if it's just the processor which isn't cutting it but I'm thinking it'll need to be a haswell i7.
I've been looking at the yoga 2 pro (http

Any thoughts or ideas?
Thank you!