Photoshop and laptop graphics

Joyful

I have a Packard Bell BV EasyNote_MX37-T-003 PC10E00201 Laptop Bought new 2 years ago. It has 1.50 gigahertz Intel Core2 Duo processor, 64 kilobyte primary memory cache, 2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache. The problem is it has a shared graphics card that cannot support Photoshop. As I am doing a college course on Web design I need advice on what cheap laptop or PC I can buy that will have the correct graphics to support Photoshop.



Thanks in advance for you help.

JuniorDesigner

I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 Netbook which I reun Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Autodesk Revit Architecture, Autodesk CAD, Quark Xpress 8, haven't had a single issue with it and had it nearly 3 years maybe more!! I got it on a mobile deal but you can pick them up fairly cheap around the £300 mark.

jaydeeuk1

Cut the crap, say it how it is and you want a new laptop.

I'm guessing its either a low power core 2 duo, or its one of the t series core duos.

How much you want to spend?

For £300, this is a bargain

http://www.medion.com/gb/electronics/prod/MEDION%C2%AE+AKOYA%C2%AE+P7610+17%22+Laptop+%28MD97025%29/30009261A1?category=


Pentium dual core T3400
geforce 9500
3gb ram
320gb hd
Vista home premium
blu way player
17" screen 1440x900
hdmi and dvi


Plenty of oomph, although cpu not that quick by todays standards, and blu ray a bonus. 9500m chip is pretty good though, and screen res not too bad for a budget laptop. Doubt you'd get 1920x1080/1200 for under £400. Would be a good price even without that.

asbokid

Joyful wrote: »

I have a Packard Bell BV EasyNote_MX37-T-003 PC10E00201 Laptop Bought new 2 years ago. It has 1.50 gigahertz Intel Core2 Duo processor, 64 kilobyte primary memory cache, 2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache. The problem is it has a shared graphics card that cannot support Photoshop. As I am doing a college course on Web design I need advice on what cheap laptop or PC I can buy that will have the correct graphics to support Photoshop.



Thanks in advance for you help.

There is a safety recall on the batteries of the MX37. There is a potential risk of overheating, explosion and fire.

https://customercare.packardbell.com/customercare/PBUpdate.aspx

Joyful

Thanks for the info so far. I will check my battery when I switch off.

The reason it will not run photoshop is the graphics are not up to scratch. This comes up when I load:

"Photoshop has encountered a problem with the display driver, and has temporarilydisabled GPU enhancements. Check the video card manufacturers website for the latest software.

GPU enhancements can be enabled in the performance panel of the preferences.


I did upload new drivers but it made no difference so I took it into college and my Lecturer advised if I was lucky it might run Photoshop 3 but would be unable to get any higher. I have tried 4 and the 5 trial and don't want to pay out money to find it can't run 3 either.


I will take a look at the computers mentioned so far.

Hammyman

So the problem is actually the graphics driver and not the hardware. Where did you get the drivers from, the laptop manufacturers site (usually out of date), Windows update (usually out of date) or the graphics chipset manufacturers website?

My wife uses Photoshop CS4 at work - she works on stuff that is 16ftx10ft when printed. Her computer uses onboard graphics and the computer is now 4 years old..

Your lecturer should shut their gobs and stick to the little that they know.

culpepper

have you tried running 5 without the GPU enhancements anyway ?
Mine is 4 years old and has shared graphics and it is nothing special and can run 5.
The newest photoshop has 3D capability which would most likely be too much for the lappy to handle but you dont actually have to use that facility unless your course will require it. There is also the facility to use the faster processing of a graphics card to help with faster scrolling and a few user interface effects but I had them turned on,on my much more powerful desktop and they were nothing but an irritation so they just got turned off again.

Stompa

This might (or might not) be useful:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404898.html

stilltheone

Hammyman wrote: »

So the problem is actually the graphics driver and not the hardware. Where did you get the drivers from, the laptop manufacturers site (usually out of date), Windows update (usually out of date) or the graphics chipset manufacturers website?

My wife uses Photoshop CS4 at work - she works on stuff that is 16ftx10ft when printed. Her computer uses onboard graphics and the computer is now 4 years old..

Your lecturer should shut their gobs and stick to the little that they know.

The lecturer is likely right.

Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0

The ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 is supports only Shader Model 2.0.

So it will work, but some features will not.

If it were the ATI Radeon Xpress 1300 the result would be different.

It's not to do with it being an onboard graphics card. More to do with the capabilities of the card.

stilltheone

Anything card that supports Direct3D 9.0c and above will likely be fine.

Here's a link to a chart.

Ludicrous that Packard Bell/PC World are putting such a graphics card in a 2 year old laptop.

S0litaire

I ran photoshop9 (or 10? can't remember which) via WINE emulator on my old 2Ghz P4 Laptop, it was running Ubuntu at the time.

That only had 16Mb of Graphics
It was slow but worked fine!

What version of photoshop are you using?
It should run on your laptop, But it might be slow...