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redTed wrote:
Probably the same minimum specs as any desktop system.
Ok. That’s fantastic. Cheers.
Let’s try again. Would a Dell Inspiron 1150 (Intel Celeron 2.6ghz) with 512mb ram be suitable ?
MAX-out the RAM the machine can accept.
How practicle this is kind of depends on how big your PSD files are.
Look at the disk sizes offered by Dell and see if you can find out the model numbers and pick the fastest one. the comp.sys.laptops usenet group can probably help you here. (this may be too arcane a detail for you to follow up on.)
I’d pick a laptop with a firewire interface (which is either built-in or via a PCMICA card) An expernal firewire disk can act as a PS work disk. (As I understand it, USB2 uses most of the CPU to pass data, FW leaves lots of CPU to do usefull stuff, even though the transfer rate is comparable.)
We havn’t begun to talk about laptop LCD screen color calibration quality. The MACs may be aheard, here.
Apple MAC users are more likely to run Photoshop. If you can get to an Apple store you might find all the models on display. All the MAC laptops I looked at in the store in Manhattan had CS loaded on them. I see no reason why you couldn’t burn one of your images into a CD and bring it in with you, to play with and get a feel for performance.
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