Photoshop User

Hi

I am just about to buy a new laptop and I am playing aorund with photoshop and just wondering if the graphics card will run it. The laptop I am buying is an ASUS F6A-3P137C which has the Embedded Intel® GMA X4500HD (GM45) graphics card in it. The other laptop I am considering is the ASUS F6VE-3p027C which has the ATI HD4570/512mb graphics card. Obviously the latter would run photoshop alot better, but would the former have too many issues with it??? Or could I get away with it???

Please help me!!!

 

You are talking about CS4?

 

If you are wanting to run Photoshop elements 7, just for your own stuff, the x4500 would be fine. If you want to run the full lightroom, you need a computer with a fast processor.

 

I actually have cs2. I am teaching myself so am not into high grade functions, am learning slowly ha ha. How would cs2 go?

 

I've put CS3 on 2 comps with embedded and it ran fine. One had 256Mb and one had only 64Mb. Maybe a little low, but still ran OK. Don't see why you'd have a problem.

 

Thanks so much for your help. I think I will get the F6A now. Does anyone know if I can upgrade it if I need to?

 

I ran CS3 on my Sempron desktop. It seemed to do alright.

 

Is Photoshop considered a game now among our youth?

I still use CS2 and it's beyond me how to get the joystick to work with it.

 

You have to use a program to may the joystick axis to mouse axis so that it moves the cursor, I can write the glovepie script to do it for you.



Anyways to the OP photoshop is all about cpu>ram>hdd GPU is not really a factor except the new CS4 that uses hardware rendering help from the GPU.

 

ive got cs4 loaded on my off the shelf 1.7ghz fujitsu with 2gb ram and it loads fine.
ive only done the basics with it and not any major manipulation and had no probs.