Recommendation for Windows laptop to run Photoshop CS3?

[Fred Bloggs]

As per the title really. Daughter wants one to take her college work with her as the college PC's are rubbish. Ideally I need something that will last her for 3 to 4 years use mainly for graphical work. Is this too much to ask on a budget of say 500 to 600 quid? Thanks.

One of these maybe, Toshiba P300-19Q ?

[ThomasSoerensen]

Lenovo W700ds

[ba55meister]

it needs to have decent resolution screen..the screen can be small but it has to have small dot pitch at the same time. I personally find that 1024x768 is ok but noe enough especially if you dont know how to utilize photoshop interface space properly

[ba55meister]

like this one for example
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/pr...dt1&l=en&s=bsd
but check the Ultrasharp version

[Fred Bloggs]

Thanks all. I'll look at those.

[Fred Bloggs]

Lenovo W700ds

The price

[_V_]

Back down to earth a little

http://www.alienware.co.uk/product_d...de=SKU-DEFAULT

Dual 512MB ATI® Mobility Radeon™ HD 3870 – CrossFireX™ Enabled!
Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme Quad QX9300 2.53GHz (12MB Cache 1066MHz FSB)
4GB Dual Channel DDR3 SO-DIMM at 1067MHz
1.0 TB SATA 3Gb/s 7200 RPM (2 x 500GB) (RAID 0)
1920 x 1200 17 inch display
Genuine Windows Vista® Ultimate 64-bit with Service Pack 1
Dual Layer Blu-ray Disc Reader (BD-ROM, DVD±RW, CD-RW)
Internal Intel® Ultimate N 5300 a/b/g/Draft-N Mini-Card with MIMO Technology The World's First 450 Mbps Wi-Fi Adapter!


A snip at £3K ish.

I've got two.

[ba55meister]

Back down to earth a little

http://www.alienware.co.uk/product_d...de=SKU-DEFAULT

Dual 512MB ATI® Mobility Radeon™ HD 3870 – CrossFireX™ Enabled!
Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme Quad QX9300 2.53GHz (12MB Cache 1066MHz FSB)
4GB Dual Channel DDR3 SO-DIMM at 1067MHz
1.0 TB SATA 3Gb/s 7200 RPM (2 x 500GB) (RAID 0)
1920 x 1200 17 inch display
Genuine Windows Vista® Ultimate 64-bit with Service Pack 1
Dual Layer Blu-ray Disc Reader (BD-ROM, DVD±RW, CD-RW)
Internal Intel® Ultimate N 5300 a/b/g/Draft-N Mini-Card with MIMO Technology The World's First 450 Mbps Wi-Fi Adapter!


A snip at £3K ish.

I've got two.

How long does the battery last on this?

[_V_]

How long does the battery last on this?

On a good day an hour.

[DimPrawn]

As per the title really. Daughter wants one to take her college work with her as the college PC's are rubbish. Ideally I need something that will last her for 3 to 4 years use mainly for graphical work. Is this too much to ask on a budget of say 500 to 600 quid? Thanks.

One of these maybe, Toshiba P300-19Q ?

I'd say the main requirements for Photoshop are:

Native hi-res screen.
Full 4GB RAM
Reasonable CPU.


So that means a 1920 x 1080 (1080p) screen.

One of these fits your budget, has the hi-res screen option and can be made to look arty-farty for a girl

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/pr...hs1&l=en&s=dhs