will it have any trouble running programs like Photoshop? with a external hard drive to hold the pictures?
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Had same problem it maybe you are using wrong port. Try a USB 3 if USB 2 is not work they are faster speed
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It will run Adobe Photoshop (I have CS6 Master Collection installed). The external resources will be limited by the single USB port and the speed. Your cache settings in PS Preferences will be limited as well with only a 256GB internal drive. You can specify the alternative cache area for your external drive in Photoshop, but once again the speed is limited by the USB interface. If you are a photographer and in the field, this will work until you can get back to your desktop. I found the screen too small to work with the precision required for Photoshop. Lightroom might be the alternative if you are just fixing photos.
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I have the Core i7 / 8 Gb version of this laptop. I run Adobe Lightroom 4.4, and it works well in my opinion.Get a USB 3.0 docking station or hub to solve the issue of only one USB port. Eg. Anker
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It will run Adobe Photoshop (I have CS6 Master Collection installed). The external resources will be limited by the single USB port and the speed. Your cache settings in PS Preferences will be limited as well with only a 256GB internal drive. You can specify the alternative cache area for your external drive in Photoshop, but once again the speed is limited by the USB interface. If you are a photographer and in the field, this will work until you can get back to your desktop. I found the screen too small to work with the precision required for Photoshop. Lightroom might be the alternative if you are just fixing photos. It will run Adobe Photoshop (I have CS6 Master Collection installed). The external resources will be limited by the single USB port and the speed. Your cache settings in PS Preferences will be limited as well with only a 256GB internal drive. You can specify the alternative cache area for your external drive in Photoshop, but once again the speed is limited by the USB interface. If you are a photographer and in the field, this will work until you can get back to your desktop. I found the screen too small to work with the precision required for Photoshop. Lightroom might be the alternative... » Read More It will run Adobe Photoshop (I have CS6 Master Collection installed). The external resources will be limited by the single USB port and the speed. Your cache settings in PS Preferences will be limited as well with only a 256GB internal drive. You can specify the alternative cache area for your external drive in Photoshop, but once again the speed is limited by the USB interface. If you are a photographer and in the field, this will work until you can get back to your desktop. I found the screen too small to work with the precision required for Photoshop. Lightroom might be the alternative if you are just fixing photos. « Show Less
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I don't see why it shouldnt because it acts as additional storage. Like a flash drive the actual functions are recorded and housed in the little black box and when you connect the little black box to your computer you can transfer the recorded and stored data. So I'm certain as long you are you have Sketch Book, Photoshop or Illustrator it will work for with all of the latest Operating Systems.If I like it... is the actual question.
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That is one of the reasons I got it. I'm a professional photographer and this is such a better deal than a Mac, performance per $. Very upgradable too. Ditch the HDD and get another Solid drive. Runs Lightroom and Photoshop like a boss. It's also great for video, runs Davinci Resolve and Premiere great.
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Basic photo editing will probably not be a problem depending on the amount of RAM available for the onboard GPU to share and the size of the image in question. Otherwise, a CUDA capable graphics card will accelerate certain Photoshop functions.
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I would assume you can being that I do heavy Photoshop n Lightroom programs .. I haven't run my Cabnetware cad on it but this is a really great monster of a notebook being 64 and Win7 instead of 8 ..
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yes, all it is an external drive, so it would not run an operation system, but you can retrieve data off of it like a usb tumb drive and use it as extra storage for acomputer.
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I have not tried it by hard ware. I use adobe products for resizing photos.
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Most likely you will not have a problem with it. External drives from reputable companies pretty much all are compatible. It's a great drive and I'm running it on a mac mini so you should be fine on a windows.
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I don't see why not. Mine handles Office Suite, browsers with half a dozen tabs open, lots of simultaneous opened Word docs, and one of the biggest memory hogs of all time: Photoshop. I haven't run into a memory problem yet.
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Sorry not exactly sure what are the requirements for photoshop software you will be using, certainly this is an i7 4Gen laptop, should be able to run any programs on it, if you are currently using a laptop and you have used the same applications with that many pictures and works fine, then with newer models you shouldn't have any problem. We would also recommend to find more info online. Thank you,
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It should be able to run it no problem. I recommend you don't run any big programs in the background and use your laptop on a hard smooth surface.
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I use the NVIDIA Quadro 2000 for image work with Photoshop CS6 64 bit on an HP Z400 running 64 bit Windows 7, 8GB ram. It seems to work great, and I have had no issues.
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It should do ok with those programs but I haven't used them much on it. There is a good amount of ram and everything that I have run so far that has been fairly intensive has worked well. I would recommend this laptop to pretty much anyone. Great deal for a great product.
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Hi, I never had any of the problems your asking about I use it with illustrator and Photoshop with no complaints
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It comes with Windows 8.1 Pro if you get the 512GB version. I run Photoshop on it with no problems.
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Yeah it will do. I have an original 80GB PS and I purchase a lot of anime videos and it takes up a lot of memory. The external hard drive is great for backing up videos and music. The downside is that it doesn't back up games or game add-ons. If you need extra memory, this is it for you.
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very little, you will need some kind of external device for storage and any extra programs or apps.