Asus Vivobook f510UA for AutoCAD?

[reigna.iheme]

I’m trying to buy an inexpensive laptop for college that can run AutoCAD and Civil 3d, and possibly Revit. It would be great to find one around $500-$600 dollars. Would the ASUS VivoBook F510UA with a 8GB RAM, 1.6 GHz Intel Core i5 processor, 1000 GB mechanical hard drive, and Windows 10 work? What if I added 256 GB storage to the laptop?

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

it depends how big your projects are and how often you need the CAD software.

From my point of view: working every day with Civil 3D and/or Revit on mid range projects you'll need

• more power from the processor side
• a graphic card (as you don't have listed one I guess this system has only the Intel HD)
• probably more than 8GB memory.

Sorry for that bad news, but doing a job means using the correct tools (which also means in that case a powerful workstation). Compare it that you want to have a 600$ car to do a ful time transportation job, you lose too much efficiency to reach the profit side.

- alfred -

[Tomislav.Golubovic]

Get an SSD, a platter drive isn't going to cut it, and spend more for something with decent graphics as the above poster mentioned.

[pendean]

That's an underpowered laptop, good only for very light CAD duties and a lot of time waiting for things to happen (aka waste of your time): read the system requirements for each of your programs to see where you actually need to be at the low end.