By art, do you mean pictures or do you mean video? Do you want a touch screen? Will you travel with it? Do you need A DVD player? What's your budget?
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I would recommend Lenovo. They use high-quality parts internally, so their products typically last longer than most others. I usually see them run for 5-6 years, which is absurd, these days.
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Look for these specs: 15.6" screen, 16gb ram, Intel i5 or i7 with "quad core" listed somewhere, and at least a 512gb SSD.
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Here is a nice mid-range laptop without a touch screen or DVD drive, but with great speed, decent storage, and only 3.7lbs:
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Oh, you said drawing so you probably don't care about video. Anyone have suggestions on drawing programs that run in Windows? I have no idea.

You could look into the Microsoft surface book line :)
I have one as well

Yeah, the new Surface Pro 7 is the shit. Sounds like you'll want a 2-in-1 in any case, if you want to be able to draw directly on the screen.

Yeah, I'm wanting one that will kinda double as a tablet. I used to make videos back in high school and early college, but fell out of the habit... My poor YouTube channel.
Lenovo is what I currently have and it's lasted me nine years now. It even plays blu-ray. So I would definitely agree that it's a good brand!
CD/DVD port would be nice, for sure. I usually watch movies on my ps3, but that isn't exactly portable.
Budget is gonna be somewhere between $900-1100 for the upper end. Granted, I also have to buy programs too, so... And figure out which art program I want.

definitely agree with the specs mentioned above. I know you might be looking for new but if you are okay with used options looking for laptops under the "refurbished" or "off-lease" categories are cheaper and many contain the specs you are looking for. the downsides are that since they are not new they don't contain the faster speeds and processing computer released during 2019.

Lenovo is a good brand. Money buys more in laptops now than it used to- but the budget specified won’t get you a “pro” machine by far. That’s not a put down or anything- I just want to be realistic. You’ll need to prioritize and sacrifice certain features- so it depends on how much you want to use it for what. Almost anything you buy that’s modern will be an improvement on a 9 year old machine- so you won’t be let down by the hardware most likely- it would be a let down if your expectations weren’t aligned to what you are getting.

If you want to DRAW like- you want to seriously draw or you want close to a pen and paper experience- the laptop is less important than the peripherals. Wacom makes some very good drawing tablets and their “smart pencil” is not bad but not great either. The sensitivity and resolution- plus screen size- on most entry level touch screens is going to be best for casual drawing or for very skilled artists who don’t mind the interface. So depending on what you want the experience to be like- you might consider either sacrificing the touchscreen feature to put that money into other places on the hardware- or buying a lower end unit with similar specs but no touchscreen and a decent peripheral for art.

What I’m saying- and again- I’m not being negative or bagging on you- I’d love a $5k+ art pad with integrated screen and it’s not in my foreseeable future. We all have budgets. I just want you to be happy with what you get. So what I’m mostly saying is get out there and try demos. Get your priorities on what you want most and what you an live without- what you want the machine to do- and make a list based off recommendations here, online, from people you know or work with/go to school with teachers, etc. and when you have a list- go try them and see if they do what you want.

Like REALLY try them. If you see a touchscreen that you think you want- go draw on it. Spend maybe 20-30+ minutes at it and see it you want to use that to draw on and it gives you results you like. Try peripherals like Wacom and other tablets- compare them to each other.

Okay, I updated what I recommend based on your input. The Surface is definitely a decent option. Lenovo's Surface analog is the Yoga. Here is one that would handle what you'd like for $750:
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https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-2-1-Touch-Screen-Laptop/dp/B07Z6KDC9V/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2B5HDQXSJLNJ
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It has two cores instead of four but I don't think you'll really be up against any severe limitations with that. You can subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud for $20/month, which will get you all the design programs you'd need to get started. (I think?? Any experts here?)
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I couldn't find any modern laptop in this price range that included a DVD player. The PS3 is a good home solution. You can get a USB DVD player if you want to use discs on the go. Just be sure to store it in a separate pocket from the laptop!

You’ll either find the system that does what you want- or at least what you can live with- or you’ll find that you can’t get something that does what you want in that range. If it’s the latter- consider sitting on your refund and making due with your current set up or an in between while you save or work up to afford something that does what you want. That’s the most important thing- buying something that doesn’t do what we want is never a good deal. We bought it because we don’t have what we want- but we have money to buy something. If it doesn’t do what we want- we now don’t have money and we still want something.

Microsoft Surface pro 6 gets good reviews for a budget drawing laptop. The Lenovo Yoga C930 is another one that is more like a tablet- but really focuses on accuracy if the touchscreen. Some of the Chrome books get decent marks- an advantage of those things is that they have a very light workload since most everything is handled on server side. You can spend very little money to get an equivalently powerful seeming machine- and because you need less horsepower for daily tasks so the hardware can be cheaper- you can focus on getting one with a top end touchscreen and get equivalent relative performance to a much more powerful machine that with the same screen quality would cost far more money.

Downsides of course are that you must always be able to reach the cloud for it to really be of use, there are restrictions and the usual google spying, and physical storage space isn’t a priority on these machines as they use the cloud. There are some possible options to look into for a machine in your budget range that will be “good” for drawing- but... only you can decide if they are “good” enough for you. Tools are subjective and what one person thinks is perfect or fine- another will think is unacceptable.

Surface 2 is good if you don't need specs that much and care a lot about keyboard, touchscreen, TouchPad, battery. Biggest flaw is small storage space on base config

Correction, I meant surface 3, cause the one I was looking at was 800 on best buy

Though you can upgrade the ssd yourself if you can find a 2230 m.2 ssd with a higher capacity (2230 is the smallest size m.2, it has to be this size)

Hmm, yeah. Having some better internal storage would be good. I don't always have internet access, particularly when I travel. I tend to do a lot of stuff offline when possible. Cloud backup is nice, but I tend to focus mostly on physical copies. Heck, I don't think my iTunes library is even backed up to the cloud. I'm a bit technologically stunted... Most of my movies are physical copies, not digital. Same with books.
I do want something that can function as an actual computer if need be, not just a tablet. I may eventually get back into movie editing and some GIS work from college. I miss doing those labs.
If it makes a difference, I do have a 4tb external hard drive as well!

But yeah, I'd like to start learning more about digital art, even if I'm not a great artist. Ctrl Z is so much more forgiving than a pencil eraser!
Aside from photoshop, I'm not sure what other art programs are out there. There's one that Apple has on their tablets, Create, or something like that. But I'd doubt it's compatible with Windows

Yo you should look up Jazzas video about free art programs and one was particularly good, I forgot the name though sorry