Hi all,

I am looking to purchase a new laptop to mainly use Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Windows. I have been doing a good amount of research and what seems to be the most important thing for running Photoshop fast and efficiently is RAM and a good screen. I've been looking around for computers now for a couple weeks, and I think i finally found one I like. So my question to you guys is for $1200, does this computer seem like a good deal and will it run Adobe Photoshop CS3 successfully? Here are the details:

--Computer--: ThinkPad T61 Widescreen
--Processor--: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T8300 (2.4GHz 800MHz 3MBL2)
--Operating System--: Windows Vista Home Premium
--Display Panel--: 15.4 WSXGA+ TFT (Widescreen Super eXtended Graphics Array Plus Resolution: 1680×1050)
--System Graphics--: Intel GMA X3100 GM965
--Total Memory--: 3GB PC2-5300 DDR SDRAM 667MHz SODIMM Memory (2 DIMM)
--Hard Drive--: 160 GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm
--Intel Turbo Memory hard drive cache--: Intel Turbo Memory 1GB
--Wireless Cards--: Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN (supporting Centrino Pro)
--Battery--: 6 cell Li-Ion Battery

Thank you, Your help is much appreciated guys!!

Im a mac guy. Somebody will answer you soon.

get one with a dedicated video card not a chipset and make sure it has atleast 256mb dedicated to it but everything else is enough

I'm a Mac guy as well, but you look pretty good. Ideally with CS3, you want to have between 2-4GB of RAM (which from looking at your specs you have that covered). I'm sure the PC guys can cover anything else that is crucial with PC's running CS3.

-Nick

Get the biggest dedicated graphics card that will come with the Think pad I believe you can get a ATI Radeon 256 and as much RAM 4GB.

I would suggest getting XP, 4 gigs of ram, and skip the onboard graphics cards since it will use main memory.

If yeh go with he current setup Vista need about 2 gigs of memory to run without paging out to the hard drive, the graphics card would need about 512megs that would leave yeh with about 512 megs of memory for cs3 which aint enough to do anything with. Thats assuming yer not running anything else.

Once yeh get the system I would Ideally have a copy of xp and reinstall if yeh cant do that get something along the lines of "decrapifier" which remove all that pre-installed junk that it'll most likely come with.

I would never want to do a lot of PS work on a laptop. For that you will want/need a Wacom Tablet, dedicated keyboard, mouse plus more monitors. Besides that a laptop cost more than a desktop.