Laptop specification question?

[race2the redline]

Im just about to purchase a laptop (P1.3ghz 40GB HD 256DDR RAM) now unless im mistaken I don’t believe PhotoShop CS2 will run on this, in which case what is the best PhotoShop I can get that will?

Incidentally the laptop will have little on it other than this Photo editing software

Regards

R2TR

[simpo two]

race2the redline said:

Im just about to purchase a laptop (P1.3ghz 40GB HD 256DDR RAM) now unless im mistaken I don’t believe PhotoShop CS2 will run on this, in which case what is the best PhotoShop I can get that will? Incidentally the laptop will have little on it other than this Photo editing software

I have a 1.5GHz AMD Athlon and 0.5Mb RAM, and whilst it will run 7.0 and CS fine, CS2 really slows it down and for little extra benefit. I've gone back to CS.

[Prof Higgins]

Think it is only the Ram holding you back and you will really want at least 512mb of this regardless of which photoshop you have. I ran Photoshop CS with 256MB and worked but was very prone to freezing up, bought an additional 1GB lump and the system flies along nicely (only running a 1.5 Celeron M laptop so not a powerhouse)

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Edited to add: Beaten to it by Simpo who has tried CS2 where I have not - I therefore bow in deference and you may well find that you are better off sticking with just CS

>> Edited by Prof Higgins on Tuesday 2nd August 17:08

[te51cle]

PS7 will work fine on that. A lot depends on how big a history/how many undo's you want to use as they will eat memory/caus disk paging to happen a lot. Another factor will be the size of the images and number of layers you use. The real hang-ups will come when you want to use complex filters like the zoom filter, go away and make a cup of tea while they work !

[Bee_Jay]

I run CS2 perfectly well on two Pentium M laptops - one 1.3GHz and 1.5G RAM, the other 1.5Ghz and 1Gb RAM. Both 'only' have 40Gb hard drives.

In my opinion, it's all in the RAM as a previous poster has said.

[race2the redline]

Thanks for your help, i will try and track down a earlier version of Photoshop. The Laptop seems Good value @£360.

regards

R2TR