looking for what laptop i should get

[freschnesss]

What laptop would be best for running cad and engineering software in an engineering high school class.

 

[Deleted member 1697763]

You should look for one with Quadro graphics as they are designed for using CAD applications. What's your budget?

 

[hang-the-9]

For high-school here is the type of system you want: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-ThinkPad-W510-15-6-LED-Notebook-Core-i7-i7-820QM-1-73GHz-/151557975679?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item23498f2e7f

A new system for CAD will be about $1,200 and up, which I doubt you or your paents want to spend. A new cheap laptop will be, well, crap, to put it simply, to run with CAD. You can also look at the newer W520 models or for an HP Z book. I like the Lenovo systems because they have some of the best build quality and case quality I have seen, in their top models which is the T and W models.

 

[freschnesss]

You should look for one with Quadro graphics as they are designed for using CAD applications. What's your budget?

I don't really have a budget I do have a surface pro1

 

[Deleted member 1697763]

Here are a few laptops you may want to look at:

Lenovo ThinkPad W540 - http://shop.lenovo.com/gb/en/laptops/thinkpad/w-series/w540/
HP ZBook 17 - http://store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=J8Z41EA&opt=ABU&sel=PBNB
Dell Precision M3800 - http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/precision-m3800-workstation/pd

My personal favourite is the Dell but all three should be fine for you.