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Are you really only restricted to these 2 options? Laptop screens are not usually the best as concerns image editing and are also notoriously difficult to calibrate and profile which is a must for any serious and accurate editing. Additionally, although you haven't mentioned it, I am assuming that both of your current choices only come supplied with one hard drive. This is also not ideal as Photoshop makes use of what it terms a scratch disk which off-loads work from memory (RAM) and should be a second disk separate from the disk upon which the application is installed. CS4 also makes use of GPU acceleration which can result in system crashes when an unsuitable video card is installed and/or incorrect drivers for the same. In my opinion, 2GB of RAM is the absolute bare minimum because it has to be remembered that the OS and other installed will be using some of this anyway so it's not as though the entire 2GB will be available to Photoshop.
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