I'm looking to buy a laptop for uni, but i don't know which one i should get, at the moment i'm leaning towards a lenovo cause i need to run autocad and as far as i know it doesn't run on a mac. So which one should i get? And if lenovo, which type?
Added (1). I thought you there was a way you could run windows up on your mac.
Lenovo is not a computer - it is a company that makes computers, many models of varying price and performance.
Also, why are you getting a laptop?
Your AC will require some pretty heavy duty graphics processing, the kind that's very expensive on a laptop. In any PC, graphics requires some kind of graphics chip and RAM. On many budget desktops and most laptops, the chip is embedded on the motherboard, and shares system memory - this is "integrated graphics". It may run AC, but probably at an unacceptable speed. The alternative is a dedicated graphics card - common to desk machines but not laptops because they consume battery power faster, generate more eat and are heavier, bigger and more expensive than IG laptops. Macbooks come equipped only w/IG on all but the Macbook Pro models, and you'll need to think very carefully about whether the cards on the MbP will work with AC (I think it's the Geforce 8800GT - check for reviews on the web using AC and that card.)
Why are you leaning towards Lenovo ahead of all other PC laptops? If you haven't settled on a model yet, you shouldn't be limiting yourself to a brand. Some Lenovos (like most in the PC world) come with dedicated graphics, some allow for graphics cards.
I have a friend that runs auto cad on his mac book but it will run much smother on a leveno and he only way to run it on the mac is to run boot camp and install xp from what i understand it won't work using crossover(windows emulator) and its very slow when using it in boot camp i would personally go with the leveno i mean if you are always having problems with your computer and you get virusi all the time i would go with the macbook because having a slow yet working laptop is better then one that's virus filled thats just my opinion though otherwise go with the leveno if you don't have those problems
If the program you need (AutoCAD) does not run on a mac, why would you be considering getting a MacBook?
There's a way you can run Windows on a Mac.
BootCamp.
GET A MACBOOK