[Chris_Ely]

Originally Posted by Maximillian

what do you guys think of this. Its a gaming laptop so it has pretty good specs and its refurbished.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834231238

This should work well. It is refurbished, so you could be taking your chances--you only get a 90 day warranty.

Originally Posted by BA SW

I would probably go with the first 1 on the list above (lenovo w510) if you intend it just for cad because it has a quadro fx880m graphics card. geforce series is more geared towards gaming and quadro is intended for applications like cad. however, if you intend to do some gaming get a laptop with geforce. if you dont mind paying an extra $200 over your budget i would go with the last asus you listed on the google doc.

While the first laptop you linked to does have a workstation graphics card, the processor is slow, which is not good.