Looking for a laptop for CAD

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While I don't have experience with the AMD processors and Radeon cards, I do know that Intel HD3000 graphics which is on-die with some of the Intel Core i-X series processors is certified for Inventor 2012 and runs rather well. HD4000 is certified for 2013 and HD 4600 is certified for 2014. I should note that Autodesk specifies the P version of these Intel graphics but there is little difference between them. Personally, I'd go with a >2GHz 3rd or 4th generation Core i5 with 4 gigs of RAM and make sure I could stick 8 gigs in it. Generally speaking, I've been rather happy with Acer laptops, and not so much with HP. If you aren't doing much rendering, I'm not sure that you'll get a lot of benefit from more than two cores, and would probably benefit more from a higher clock speed.