Looping for a los budget laptop to rub Autocad and Photoshop

[Mairea]

1. What is your budget? 500$ or less

2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 15" or less

3. What screen resolution do you want? Something that will be good for Photoshop

4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? Portable laptop

5. How much battery life do you need? It doesn't matter

6. Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)? No games

7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.) use Autocad and photoshop. Not for big things. Mostly 2D and photo editing

8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need? 500GB or more

9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.

10. How long do you want to keep your laptop? 3 or 4 years

11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ? DVDROM writer

12. Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons. I don't have specifics brands

13. What country do you live in? United States

14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.

Thanks in advance!

 

[orlbuckeye]

Its going to be hard to find a PC for 500 that will do video editing. Autocad doesn't require a whole of power but I'm sure you will need a decent discrete graphics card for video editing.

 

[orlbuckeye]

This one may do it.

http/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834258271