A:Answerit should make a great student laptop. just get a usb mouse for cad/drafting. a desktop has better ergonomics if you do hours of drafting a day.
A:AnswerYes, I imagine it should. I'm estimating this GPU is about as capable as a desktop HD 7750 card. The 8GB dual channel RAM is also sufficient, and it should outperform the first round of newer A10-8700p notebooks (like toshiba and lenovos) that were misdesigned with the single channel memory.
A:Answerthat would be a software issue. windows should have a setting for that. I know linux mint has a setting for that.
I haven't had the need to do so; the touchpad and its driver software seems to be pretty immune to false taps.