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    Adobe CS5 Design Premium on the Series 9?

    Discussion in 'Samsung' started by winterlight, Jun 11, 2011.

  1. winterlight

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    Bit of a newbie here seeking advice before I throw in the towel:

    I bought a Series 9 13.3" with extra RAM (now at 8GB) yesterday, and the series of frustrations is reaching the deal-breaking point (1st machine turned on but didn't load a thing - didn't even load the bios, had to return today to get it swapped, which took hours at the PC Show in Singapore; incorrect RAM installation by the salespeople; in addition to amazingly bad wireless signal [I'm going to get a USB antennae, hopefully this improves] and the over-sensitive trackpad).

    My issue with this laptop now is that I'm not sure if I can run and multitask between Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign on it. I was surfing Facebook on Chrome and had loaded 3 Flash games, and CPU usage went up to 100%, though physical memory remained at 2GB, Flash or otherwise.

    Prior to this computer I had a Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 with 4GB RAM and XP, which ran all the Adobe programmes along with Chrome and iTunes without "batting an eyelid". Beginning to think I should try to save the dear old faithful rather than moving over to a new laptop.

    Weight is a really big issue for me, so it was either this or the MBA. Am thinking I may have to convert to Apple after all.

    Thanks for any input and advice ^^!
     
    winterlight, Jun 11, 2011
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