Looking for a student laptop

[cimurray]

Hello,
Does anyone have any experience of Samsung's new laptop with the AMD A10 4600m processor and 8GB of ram running at 1600MHz? I am looking to buy my son a laptop for uni which he expects to use for note-taking, using Skype and CAD software. I have looked at i5 solutions but they all seem lopsided using onboard graphics only and if a discrete card is added it seems to kill battery life.
Any views gratefully received.

 

[humphreybot]

http/www.samsung.com/us/computer/laptops/NP305E5A-A08US i just got one last month, unfortunately it was closed out but that link is a the newer model. great price for a great little laptop. mine plays all games, skyrim, deus ex, l4d2 ......everything i ask it to do it does. so i imagine your pick will be even better than mine