Hello My name is James
I am a Mechanical Engineering student and I am getting ready to purchase a new laptop to replace my current dying one. The question I have is what specs should I be looking at to run Solidworks as a student? This laptop will just need to last until graduation in 2 years and I have a prettty low budget of around \$600. Two possible candidates I found are on the Lenovo Outlet and sold as scratch and dent models. They seen to have very good specs for the price. Will either of these run Solidworks within reason?
Lenovo Ideapad Z 710
Intel i7-4700qm
Ge-force gt745m graphics
1TB hard drive
8GB RAM
\$600
Lenovo G500s
Intel i7-3632qm
Ge-force gt720m
1 TB hard drive
8GB RAM
\$552
Thanks for any advice
James
SolidworksEducator Student