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    Asus and Photoshop

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by okadam111, Jul 28, 2009.

  1. okadam111

    okadam111 Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi,

    I am going to be traveling overseas in a few months and I was wondering what everyone thinks is the minimum Asus laptop/netbook that I could buy to run photoshop smoothly? Do you think the n10 could handle some everyday color correction, cropping, and contrast editing?

    Thanks,

    Adam
     
    okadam111, Jul 28, 2009
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  2. ren3g7ade

    ren3g7ade Notebook Evangelist

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    I assume most of them will "run" it. Are you using the full version of Photoshop or are you using Photoshop Elements. Elements is a pared-down version of the product designed for people that want to do simple photo editing etc.

    Photoshop Elements
    http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/?promoid=BPDEM

    There is also Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2
    http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/?promoid=DJGSN_P_US_FP2_LR_MN&tt=P_US_FP2_LR_MN

    The N10 should be able to handle what you want it to do relatively well. My older laptop ran Photoshop Elements without a problem, albeit, a little slower than some of today's laptops.
     
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  3. dancom96

    dancom96 Notebook Consultant

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    I don't see how it wouldn't. My old HP laptop with a 1.8GHz CPU and 8400GS could run it very smoothly.
     
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  4. MooCwzRck

    MooCwzRck Notebook Consultant

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    Hell, my HP with a 1.6 Ghz Dual Core AMD processor and a mobile nVidia 6150 with like 60Mb of dedicated memory and 1Gb of RAM was able to at least "run" it, albeit not very smoothly...

    At this point, most mid-range laptops have about 3-4Gb of RAM, Dual Core 2.0Ghz processors, and much better integrated graphics cards, at least relative to mine. I'd say as long as you are spending more than $500, you'll have a laptop that will run it smoothly no problem.

    Most netbooks aren't going to be able to run it very well at all, unless you want to spend a good penny, so I'd recommend finding something around 14-15 inches.
     
    MooCwzRck, Jul 28, 2009
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  5. thalanix

    thalanix Notebook Deity

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    depends more on which photoshop you plan to use. i find cs4 somewhat lagging even on my g50. cs3 runs like a breeze.
    dont forget about screen resolution either. ps on 1024x768 will be hard.
     
    thalanix, Jul 28, 2009
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