My niece is looking for a laptop to run Adobe® Creative Suite® 5.5 Design Premium software, specs needed say:
- Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
- Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 2; or Windows 7
- 1GB of RAM or more recommended
- 1280x800 display with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM
I've been asked to find something in the £3-500 price range but I'm a bit clueless at the moment over cpu's in laptops, can anyone suggest something suitable?
I'm using CS5 on my work laptop. Dual core i5 M520 CPUs at 2.4GHz. Runs Photoshop well and not shabby with Premiere when encoding. GPU acceleration doesn't seem to do much but the onboard graphics aren't good at all. That CPU and 4GB runs OK for me.
Toying with something like http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/laptop/range/nspirepro2410.html as there's a 520M card to help out with GPU rendering. Not that photoshop GPU acceleration seems to make too much difference. I need to play with my desktop to see if PS CS4 makes any use of the GTX 460 when I set nVidia control panel to be always on for that app.
I would say look for the ones with a suitable OpenGL gpu in budget and the rest of the specs will probably be covered.
I used http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html quite a bit for my laptop research a while back as a rough guide
maybe something like so (although screen resolution is a little under on the vertical (1366x768
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/156-acer-5738dzg-3d-gaming-intel-t4400-22ghz-4gb-320gb-ati-vga-dvdrw-webcam-w7hp
though I'm not certain how good a deal this is. Plus it depends how far you trust acer (I know some don't!)
From my experience with CS5, GPU counts for less than CPU.
Cheers guys, I'm a bit more clued up now :thumb:
Ofc *if* gpu is not actually so critical and onboard Intel stuff will do well enough then you can save money and/or get a lot more CPU, or get a good 17" screen, etc. Discrete mobile gpu are expensive so well worth researching reviews of CS5 on that, starting from bfc comment :-) some onboard chipsets aren't too bad these days...
My macbook runs it wonderfully, fnarr fnarr...
Quote from: A Twig;328336My macbook runs it wonderfully, fnarr fnarr...
The shiny fisher price toy might but your not going to get one for
Quotesomething in the £3-500 price range
also theres the shame of being a mac user fnarr fnarr :) ;) :) :) :)
£3,500 is plenty? ;) And my macbook is white, and has a glowing apple on it, the sole functions of which are to drain battery life and advertise to the world how I like paying too much for things, so there :)
Quote from: A Twig;328521£3,500 is plenty? ;) And my macbook is white, and has a glowing apple on it, the sole functions of which are to drain battery life and advertise to the world how I like paying too much for things, so there :)
LOL.. a fool and his money.. :)