Anyone Using Photoshop CS4 on Their Laptop?

It would be great to hear real-world reports on how Photoshop CS4 is running on basic laptops. It seems some people are having issues with CS4 and it looks like the switch to more reliance on the GPU is often a factor. I am just wondering how a basic GPU like an Nvidia 6150 is going to do with CS4.

Thanks.

 

I tried the trial version on my laptop
2.2 GHz duo
2600 HD ATI
2GB RAM

I didnt see a great difference in terms of performance despite being gpu powered.
There are a couple features which were nice, such as vector masking and being able to rotate the canvas and a few other things.
But I feel that CS4 is far from being worth the price tag if you are upgrading.

 

Is there slow loading time like the previous CS3 version? and any unnecessary lag?

 

Got this off of the Adobe Website:

Seems like any video card would do for graphics editing, but for the 3D parts you will need a card that supports OpenGL and shader 3.0, Geforce 6150 supports both so you should be fine. Photoshop is more CPU dependent anyways

 

I didnt really benchmark the things but I didnt notice any particular difference. 3d stuff seemed to work better though but I would never use 3d in photoshop tbh...

 

CS4 is running a bit worse than CS3. Zoom, scaling, transforming, editting is very choppy, for some weird reason. I have a Quadro FX card, so I'm supposed to burn through CS4 but there's a problem w/ the program I'm guessing.

 

Yes I am a Photoshop CS4 user - Full extended version. It rocks. With x64 CS4 I finally managed to make it fully utilize all of my 6GB of RAM in my Inspiron. See my sig.

I don't think it's really that choppy as compared with CS3 - Not that I've experienced it yet. Even though CS4 is now optimized with your GPU, yes, it is still CPU and RAM intensively dependent among all concerning hardware factors.

6GB is still not enough - I hit 5.3 - 5.5 everytime especially with photoshop. I have nearly 12,000+ layers in all my .psd files - Some of the file sizes are over 1GB.

 

Nope, not I.

 

Using it. Think its going to be the only thing I keep in the creative suite once I revert back to 3 (getting problems with the new one, I can't afford to have projects not opening etc. just for the sake of a new program)

 

GPU acceleration is only for the 3d work and canvas rotating.

It runs well enough if your processor is up to it though.

 

I am using it and I can see that CS4 is like Office 2007. Layout is for dummies and everything is easy to access. CS4 loads faster than CS3. GPU wise, I notice a difference from CS3 to CS4. Camera RAW 5.2 is way better.

 

Thanks for all of the input. I won't be doing much at all with 3D editing but I was worried about how it the GPU would handle things like the new way that you can zoom in and out at levels other than 100% and not get the distorting jaggies.

 

Update: the install went fine and the GPU didn't have any problems with the Open GL stuff (which is what was worrying me the most).

Unfortunately, I am experiencing the well-known lag problem (e.g. if you draw with the paint brush, clone tool, etc., the resulting line lags a good bit behind the cursor as it is drawn). Good thing I kept CS3 on my machine. Adobe says it is a driver issue, but many posts seem to indicate maybe it is more than a driver issue or possibly something else all togther. Regardless, Nvidia isn't providing the new notebook drivers on their website for the 7150/6150 GPUs like they have just started doing for other notebook GPUs. I guess I could try hacking things but what a pain. HP hasn't updated drivers for over a year, so they are worthless.

I post this just so others will know about possible issues if they are thinking about upgrading. My advice is to just wait until Adobe releases the first major update to PS CS4.