ooh honey with a budget like that, youre in for a treat
for your looking around, some specs. you will need:
- at least an i5 processor (id go for i7)
- at least 8gb of RAM (id go for 16)
- a uh. a good graphics card (i never understood this bit but its important!)
- HIGH RESOLUTION SCREEN
- storage is like, not that important bc the cloud and that, but on ur budget u can get it. SSD > harddrive - SSD is more expensive, but is faster with no moving parts. harddrive is big storage, like 1TB. most laptops these days have both, some just have like 250GB SSD.
a lot of computer-buying sites categorise their laptops like - 'for casual use' 'for office use' 'for HEAVY use (dun dun dun!)' - for drawing, believe it or not, you want that last one. you want the kinda hardware animators use.
personally, i recommend checking out lenovo.
i have a lenovo legion, which is a gaming laptop, and its like... $900? im not american, so im not 100% but its jus below the 1k mark. thats considered budget, weirdly.
because its made for gaming, its gotta be Powerful - and it is! i7 processor, 8gb of RAM, a v nice screen to boot. i can run so many things at once and it still runs cool, i havent experienced it crashing on me once. i work in CSP and sometimes i get lag, but i think thats more of a csp thing than a laptop thing. gaming laptops are p trustworthy for drawing imo, bc theyre used to smth even higher caliber - but theyre a bit ugly
when i was looking around, i was eyeing up some other lenovos for higher prices that are even nicer (and slimmer and prettier) - so look around!
i recommend going into a shop and getting your hands on some different models to see how they feel, as well.