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(Battery life, small screen, and I’d do some deep 3rd-party research to find out whether the display is actually capable of displaying the full 24-bit/16.7 million colors, or if Acer is fudging the numbers. Many smaller displays aren’t really true 24 bit, but simulate 16.7 million colors through dithering. I’m not real keen on shared graphics memory, either.)
It can run all the programs you listed that are adobe.. I recommend is ram upgrade to like 3 or so gigs.. even 4 gigs would be fine..
I doubt HD editing is possible really, seeing as its a 5400RPM drive and the PM965 chipset is the X3100 Gfx accelerator if i recall correctly and it might not be able to handle the power of HD..
But do know that the HD will bottleneck it on your renders and such since its not a 7200 or 10k rpm drive..
I’d never want a laptop as a primary systemespecially not without using a secondary monitor (don’t know if that’s the O.P.’s plan or not).
And as a secondary, I don’t think I’d do much hard core graphic work. Maybe a little texture creation, or some dead simple photo cropping and stuff like that, but for full projects? Nope. Tethered photography and writing, yeah, those would be laptoppable too.
The guy i’m getting the lappy for i’ll also give him a 19" widescreen monitor to plug in to the lappy.
I think i’ll get it, as well as a USB HD for more space and 2 gigs more ram.
Not sure about the comments claiming laptops in general are not good for image editing, as they can be very high spec these days, and you can plug in a big monitor or 2…
"Not sure about the comments claiming laptops in general are not good for image editing, as they can be very high spec these days, and you can plug in a big monitor or 2… "
I’m not a fan of LCD displays to begin with, and I simply wouldn’t own an LCD display that was less than top quality. For palettes and stuff, sure. For writing, yeah.
Be careful on the memory upgrade most sell High Density and these can cause serious problems. Double check what memory type is required! When you say get 2gig more ram? There are normally two slots and these will be filled with 1gb sticks so most likely you will need to get 4gb (2 x 2gb)
