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Souk, I have run Autocad 2000 on a 4 year old BestBuy middle of the road Compaq Presario 2100 that says it has a lowly Celeron chip in it. It works fine.

Some years ago, I was a bit more knowledgable about the latest computers and back then (386 and 486 days), I remember being advised that I needed a math co-processor chip and only basically the latest high-end stuff would handle Autocad etc. Back even before that, the company I worked for (mechanical engineering) paid something like $15,000 for a computer that would run some crude form of cad.

I do not think you will have a problem with either as far as Autocad or even Solidworks goes. My work computer that has Autocad and Solidworks on it is a 2 year old Dell and it was just a middle of the road computer when purchased.
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