Will this be enough for Photoshop?

[ayabrea38]

The little darling son is starting collage in sept and he would love a netbook/laptop for his birthday next month.
I have a Samsung N145 with an intel atom cpun450 1.67 ghz processor,1 gb ram and a 2.2gb hard drive.
Would this run photoshop sufficiently for him or can anyone recommend a netbook/laptop that would suit better BUT does not cost more than £250.
Much thanks
Aya

[ChuckFickens]

Are you sure about that hard drive size, 2.2GB wouldn't really be enough to install windows on, let alone anything else.

Assuming you're wrong about the hard drive and it is larger than that then It would run it, but it wouldn't be a very pleasurable experience doing so.

The CPU is too slow really, it hasn't got enough RAM and the screen size on a netbook wouldn't be very nice to work with while doing photo editing.

£250 is going to be stretching it a little, you'd probably be looking at reconditioned to get something decent for that price.

http://www.pcworld.co...red-12041417-pdt.html

[Fanriffic]

Photoshop will happily run on your current spec laptop.
Ideally, more RAM (2GB) would help the program run faster but your 1GB will be sufficient providing you don't have other memory intensive programs running at the same time in the background.

[ChuckFickens]

Happily run???

On a single core atom netbook with a 10inch screen?.... it would run, but it would be painful to try and use it!

[Fanriffic]

Yeah, you're absolutely right Chuck.
Just re-read the original posters tech spec for laptop.
I only seen the Intel bit, not the atom bit. A new laptop (modern) required.

This is what Adobe recommends for CS6.

http://www.adobe.com/...oshop/tech-specs.html

[ayabrea38]

Thanks very much Chuck,I had not thought of refurbished and that one sounds like very much what he would want.
Thanks again
Aya