By light graphics are we talking about photoshop?
Because I will be honest with you, barely anything will do that's 500$ or less. He needs to go up in his budget to 700$.
I was lucky enough to buy an ASUS Vivobook for 500$(that's distributor price) but it only has 4 GB of RAM and 500 GB of HDD space, but packs a Core i3 with Intel HD 4000 series.
Unless you can find furnished ones there's no way it's going to happen.
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