| if you have used lightroom before on a higher end machine you will see a difference in the speed in which photos are imported and exported. but with an atom processor you should be able to run it well enough for field use. I assume thats what you want the netbook for? your processor wont be the issue. (the minimum requirment from Adobe is a pentium 4) your problem will be the memory. most of these atom based netbooks have 1 gig of ram, and this only just meets the minimum requirements for lightroom 2.3. I use it on a 2.0 Ghz core2 duo with three gigs of ram and wish it was a bit faster. but since it will berunning XP instead of vista, I think you should be able to run lightroom and photoshop well enough. the small screen will be an issue though.
I have thought about getting a lenovo S10 to accompany my ideapad. very attarctive prices! |