Laptops A question on netbooks

[hotshot05]

I have been following netbooks right from the time the Asus EEE PC 701 was launched and have read most of the popular reviews on the net regarding most netbooks which have been launched till now.

But in no review have I seen the reviewers mentioning something about image editing on these machines.

My query is for those who own a netbook or have used one.

Can a netbook running an Intel Atom N270 processor handle Adobe photoshop or GIMP?
Is it possible to use the image editing programs if the RAM is upgraded to 2GB?

 

[Striker10]

No you dont want to use Photoshop/high-end utilities on an Atom. trust me.. It's just enough for browsing/email or watching divx rips....

 

[coolraghav]

I have used portable photoshop cs2 many times and it works just fine.

Maybe using CS1 or 8 version may help to run things little faster. Upgrade to 2 gig ram, it helps.

steps to run shit faster on netbook :-

1. upgrade to 2gig

2. make a partition of ram calling it "ramdrive"

3. put photoshop portable innit

4. fookin hell..its runs from the ram and fookin faster.. w00t

5. REP ME.

p.s. m using asus eeepc 1000h

 

[hotshot05]

No you dont want to use Photoshop/high-end utilities on an Atom. trust me.. It's just enough for browsing/email or watching divx rips....

You sure about that!

I did a Google search and there I saw that many people happily use photoshop to even view RAW and TIFF images of 30MB in size on an N270 with 2GB RAM.
The only problem is because of screen resolution. Photoshop requires a minimum of 768px and so most of the time lots of tools are not visible on the screen.

I just wanted to confirm this from a person on this forum.

Has anybody done any DivX encoding on a netbook?