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Originally Posted by Mazrim
Is she doing 2D or 3D work? If it's mainly 2D work, you can get a bargain basement video card in an average computer and it will just fine. Do you know what version they'll be using? The newer ones require a much better computer, but if you can get away with vanilla AutoCAD 2008, again you can have a dirt cheap computer run it fine.
I've used AutoCAD for years on crap computers and it's totally bareable. Once you get into 3D modeling though, things go downhill quickly.
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Agreed.
Table, what kind of work do you think she'll be doing? Most school programs now teach 3D as part of their AutoCAD courses, and I can tell you that 2D drafting is really taking a backseat now.
At the very least, run a 64bit Win7 box with at least 4 Gigs of RAM and a resemblance of a video processor-- that should cover you for most school situations.
Edit: Purpose already answered above, that's what happens when you leave the reply window open too long. Ask away, this is my industry.