Laptop for architecture undergraduate student

I still have time to think on deciding my laptop before September, but I’ve began to think about the requirements and how I will afford it since there looks to be no funding in place at my chosen uni.

I’m mostly interested in Lenovos and Dells however they seem to be on the pricey side. Is there any solid recommendations that anyone could give me for relatively powerful laptops/desktops that are slightly more budget friendly?

I can imagine that in my course I would be carrying out rendering using software such as autocad and revit which would be very demanding on the laptop’s graphics card, storage and processing power. Thanks