Choosing Laptop For Engineering

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<p>I am a beginning biomedical engineering student and need to purchase a capable laptop for the next 4 years. The one I'm looking at has the following specs: intel i5 2450M-2.50-GHz-is dual core, standard memory is 6 GB DDR3, screen resolution 1366 x 768, has a dedicated Ge Force 610M 2GB graphics memory. Will this work? I will be using CAD/AutoCAD, Solidworks Student Edition, Matlab, Scilab, Octave, MSC Software, Cosmol, and Labview. If this laptop won't work, do you have any suggestions as to what specs I need? Please help.</p>

<p>Thank you</p>

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<p>It’ll work, but the question is, how much are you paying for it?</p>

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<p>If you are serious about AutoCAD , you may want a workstation GPU ( e.g. Nvidia Quadro).
I wouldn’t pay more than $450 for that computer that you listed assuming it doesn’t have an SSD and it isn’t an ultrabook.</p>

<p>The Geforce 610M is a little better than the onboard HD3000 since it’s a low end dedicated GPU.</p>

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