Q: Im planning to buy a laptop but Don not have any idea what specs and what suits my requirements. I would would want a laptop powerful enough to do graphic designs such as Adobe creative suites (PS, ILLUstrator), COREL (Draw, painter etc), Flash (Pro, MX), Blender etc... I know that buying the most expensive laptop out there is the best option but I am looking for a less expensive laptop (not too cheap and not too expensive)... I would want to try Apple mac but I need it to be in windows operating system..
A: I bought a laptop 2 months ago for gaming. I searched for about 3 weeks to get something powerful yet cheap yet by a well-known brand (my dad would say no to Sager/ProStar since they're not known)... I finally settled on buying a refurbished (it was impossible to distinguish from brand new except the sticker on the bottom that says refurbished - also $500 cheaper than new) Dell XPS M1530 with 2gz dual core (would be enough for what you want), 3GB of RAM (3.5 is the max Windows 32-bit can recognize), 200GB 7200rpm hard drive (most hard drives are 5400 rpm = revolutions per minute), and a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT (very powerful, I used http://www.notebookcheck.net/ to compare graphics cards since it's hard to tell how good they are just by names) all for $1234 (900 without the 3-year warranty - normally it's 1-year but with laptops it's recommended by experts to get extended) on outlet.dell.com (bought 10% coupon off ebay). I'm pretty confident that my laptop would do everything you want at an acceptable price though a same in a desktop would be around half if you built it.