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Best Laptop for AutoCAD: Deals on Laptops Suitable for AutoCAD

The best laptop for AutoCAD is not easy to find as laptops are not built specifically for computer aided design purposes. What you need to do is look at specific laptop features and components to determine whether a given laptop model is capable of meeting AutoCAD design requirements. Processor, hard drive, memory, video card, and display size are all important factors to consider in choosing a laptop to complete your AutoCAD designs. If working with AutoCAD is your job or something that your company heavily utilizes, then I don't think you're going to get away with spending under $1200 on the best laptop for AutoCAD. You can however seek out the best laptop deals possible that include the necessary components for efficient and quality AutoCAD designing.

I recommend the following minimum system requirements when choosing the best laptop for AutoCAD: 2.0 GHz dual-core processor, 2 GB DDR2 memory, 160 GB hard drive, discrete graphics card, and 17
inch or larger widescreen display. There are plenty of options that meet the above requirements available from one major laptop manufacturer.

Choosing the best laptop for AutoCAD
The best place to start your search for the best AutoCAD laptop computer is at one of the two laptop home pages associated with the Dell Online Store:

Dell Home & Home Office home page

Dell Small & Medium Business home page
(click on USA near the top and then select "Small & Medium Business" under "Notebooks")

You're going to want to check out both sections to see which department is offering the best deals on laptops suitable for AutoCAD applications. Click on the "Desktop Replacement" link along the left-hand navigation menu within each department.  Also within the Small & Medium Business department be sure to check out the "Dell Precision Mobile Workstation" section. Now you can look through some laptop models that will meet your AutoCAD requirements. Be sure to verify the technical specifications before purchasing a laptop computer to be used for AutoCAD designing. Make sure there is a discrete video card and not just an integrated solution. Also verify the system memory and hard drive storage space. If the minimum specs are not met then see if a customizable option is available to bump up the system memory or hard drive space or to add a discrete video card(a discrete video card carries extra video memory and a graphical processing unit which frees up system memory). Of course further customization and upgrading is available on Dell's best laptops for AutoCAD if you want more power, speed, and storage space. If your budget allows you may in fact want to bump up even further each of the key components I described above to ensure you get the best laptop for AutoCAD. The more processing speed, memory, storage space, and graphics memory/processing you have on your laptop machine the better overall and long term performance you can expect from your AutoCAD application.

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