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We currently own two laptops (brand new Black MacBook 2.4 & 17" MacBook Pro 2.6). We are returning the 17" MBP because of screen issues. We are thinking of just sticking with one new laptop (my fiance's Black MB) which she doesn't use as much. I am thinking of holding off to buy a new 17" MBP and waiting to see if they redesign them. I wanted to know, if I max out the ram (4 gigs) on ...

It'll be more than fine. As for which screen to get, I'll let somebody else answer that one.

not sure about the newegg, but samsungs are good bang for buck as most of them havw about 3000:1 contast ratio and 2 ms response time, which is awsome for graphic editing such as flash.

Yeah. More than enough for the CS you're talking about, don't even sweat it. As for a secondary screen, good question and no help here. I'll refer to others on that.

Since the most important components for Photoshop are the CPU and memory (graphics card doesn't matter because it's all 2D work), it's obvious there won't be much difference. 2.4 vs 2.6 CPU is minor, you said you will bring memory up to 4 GB, so you will have a practically identical machine. As far as the monitor is concerned - how much are you willing to cough up? What size are ...

I'm running the AdobeCS3 Master Collection which includes: – Adobe InDesign CS3 for professional page design – Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended for new dimensions in digital imaging – Adobe Illustrator CS3 for powerful vector graphics creation – Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional for Adobe PDF creation and collaboration – Adobe Flash CS3 Professional for creating rich interactive ...

Nice SFstate...I can only repeat that you won't have any lag with the basic CS you're talking about. Good to hear others.

Quote: Originally Posted by jecapaga Nice SFstate...I can only repeat that you won't have any lag with the basic CS you're talking about. Good to hear others. I've used InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, and will be utilizing Premier Pro for some video starting Saturday morning. ...

It'll be more than enough to run it, but one thing that I would point out is that I have two laptops, a MB and a MBP, with roughly equivalent CPUs. When running photoshop (doing anything in it really, even simple filters and resizing) the fan goes wild in the MacBook, spins up to 6000rpm and it gets quite hot, whereas the MacBook Pro doesn't even seem to notice, and the fans stay at ...

Quote: Originally Posted by Matek Since the most important components for Photoshop are the CPU and memory (graphics card doesn't matter because it's all 2D work), it's obvious there won't be much difference. 2.4 vs 2.6 CPU is minor, you said you will bring memory up to 4 GB, so you will have a practically identical machine....