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As you may realize Photoshopping/editing on such a small screen is not a great idea, not to mention you would be highly recommended to upgrade the ram to better run photoshop. IMHO, its just not an overall good idea.

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Francis Valentine said:
Hello, is there a reasonably priced Netbook that will run Photoshop? Thank you.

Francis
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Photoshop does not run on any smaller screen than 1024 x 768 with 1280 x 800 strongly recommended as the minimum. Netbooks have a 600 x something 10-11" screen. Photoshop needs a decent ultraportable and preferably a 12-13" screen at a minimum. Photoshop Elements, on the other hand, will run on a netbook.
 
As a couple has already mentioned, there is a minimum screen resolution required. Also, Photoshop is a very fat application, I don't know if any Atom processor will do it justice. You'll need some muscles and memory.
 
mosswings said:
Francis Valentine said:
Hello, is there a reasonably priced Netbook that will run Photoshop? Thank you.

Francis
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Photoshop does not run on any smaller screen than 1024 x 768 with 1280 x 800 strongly recommended as the minimum. Netbooks have a 600 x something 10-11" screen. Photoshop needs a decent ultraportable and preferably a 12-13" screen at a minimum. Photoshop Elements, on the other hand, will run on a netbook.
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It is possible to get around the minimum resolution requirement by installing Photoshop while the netbook is attached to an external monitor. However, that doesn't make running it on a small screen and underpowered machine any more recommended.
 
I'm running CS5 on a HP DM1Z 11.6" netbook with no problems. I wouldn't recommend it for any serious editing. I use mine for viewing, storing and backing up files on the road. It has a AMD E-350 dual core processor, screen resolution is 1366 x 768.
Read the reviews, youi'll see it is one of the top netbooks available today.
Dave Jolley
http://www.pbase.com/hockingphotos
 
Heres another thought-perspective...

What are the hardware specs of the full size desktop-laptop that I assume you have now? Is it fast-slow?

I run a Q9550 overclocked to 4x3.5 ghz with 8 gig of ram and 2 300 gig Velociraptors in RAID 0 for my OS drive for my lightroom-photoshop editing, and i end up waiting for that to process my 12 meg cr2 files. To me, a netbook would be torture on the mind and eyes trying to edit pictures at all.

YES, my data files are stored in a separate raid 6 array for redundancy for those that dont like raid 0. :)
 
Photoshop will run on any Netbook, I put it on an old Asus EEE pc I have but its not very usable or practical if you want to do any real kind of work on it. The screen is too small with too low of a resolution which makes it difficult to work on it.
 
Here's a netbook review illustrating PS CS4 running on a 1.6-atom-processor Vaio P. PS illustration comes at about 9' 30".
 
Rodolfo said:
Here's a netbook review illustrating PS CS4 running on a 1.6-atom-processor Vaio P. PS illustration comes at about 9' 30".
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That's strange. It takes half that time on my 12+ year old IBM Thinkpad 600E with a 366 Cyrix CPU, 296MB RAM (the max) and a whopping 6 GB HDD. :-P

It easily runs XP-PRO (after updating the BIOS) too.

(I only use it when away from base for e-mailing and suchlike but I tried it - so that Vaio sounds a bit knackered by comparison). ;-)

Just goes to prove that old adage:

"No one ever got fired for buying IBM"

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AMD E-350
ATI 6310 shared memory
8192 MB RAM 3@1066
12.1" 1366x768 glare

just replace drive (using Paragon software Like I do, clone drive in latest version - 11)
built in is 320 GB@5400, I think Vertex 2 is all it needs.

I have a friend, he uses it as a DTR for 1080 footage editing in Premiere!
For a netbook it is very good, if you have money just buy Dell Allienware M11xR2

Best,
d
 
I went with an 11.6 HP notebook with an upgrade to 4GB of memory. Runs CS5 fine except I wouldn't use it for any editing of color; ok screen but not color accurate. 11.6", aside from more pixels than a 10.1", it also has a standard size keyboard.

HP dm1z
11.6"
AMD E-350
1.6 GHz
3GB (I went for the 4GB upgrade)
320GB 7200 RPM
b/g/n wireless
bluetooth
Win 7 home premium 64
3.52 lb
Screen: 1366 x 768 (135 px/in)
$450
11.42 x 1.2 x 8.43

shopping.hp.com
1-800-289-6947 sales
optional
500GB 7200 RPM $150
4GB RAM $30
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