"Gummo" wrote in message
A colleague’s student son needs a laptop. His only requirement, in terms of power, is to be able to run Photoshop without too much creaking and groaning.
Personally, I would buy a more or less ordinary notebook, and load it with 2 or 3 Gb or memory. The Dell Inspiron 1501 at $500 is a better notebook than the one I use everyday for Photoshop – very useable when you add an external monitor and the free MSVDM multi-desktop.
Do load it to the gills with memory, but don’t buy your memory from the manufacturer – too pricey. Get your notebook with the minimum amount of memory, and upgrade with 3rd party memory from a place like www.satech.com . —
Mike Russell – www.curvemeister.com