Acer Timeline PC's

A Core 2 Solo will run Photoshop just fine. It won't be blisteringly fast but it will still outpace any other single core CPU.

That sort of laptop is designed for people who require ultimate portability and battery life, if you wouldn't need that, you'd be better off finding a model that uses a Core 2 Duo or similar.
 
divine` said:
A Core 2 Solo will run Photoshop just fine. It won't be blisteringly fast but it will still outpace any other single core CPU.

That sort of laptop is designed for people who require ultimate portability and battery life, if you wouldn't need that, you'd be better off finding a model that uses a Core 2 Duo or similar.
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I take it it would be better than an Atom processor then? Ideally as long as it would run Photoshop for the odd one off then I can't see myself using anything more intensive than that, and the long battery would be great for when I'm studying,
 
Massively quicker than an Atom - though even those can be ok for light photoshop work a Core 2 Solo is much better.

That said, i've just looked and the Solo range only goes up to 1.4GHz - I had assumed they went up to at least 2.66GHz or so. I'd be inclined to get a Core 2 Duo and just carry around a cable for when you want more than a few hours battery.
 
Hey, i have played with three of these acer timeline machines as we have had them in work for a while now. Overall they seem great, good battery life and ultra sleek. They will not be the best for processing images as they are a single core, but use something similar to Hyper Threading to try and load ballance.

They generaly have 3 gb of ram and above, however i would be more likley to go for the 14" version for portability as this has the same processor as the 15 and runs at the same resolution.

What makes them different from the Atom processer is the amount of cache they have on the processor and the FSB that the processor runs at. Mega gains in comparison. To get the 8 hour claimed battery life you will have to dim the screen and maybe turn a few options off, but in the shop the other day a fully charged battery just playing a demo on loop, with the wireless off speakers on half and brightness set to half (i think) lasted 5 hours, which is pretty good going
 
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