Best Macbook for Photoshop

I want to buy a new Macbook that will support and run Photoshop well, without freezing up or slowing down while using the program. I have been looking at the MacBook Pro, but do not know if it's necessary to buy the 15 inch or if the 13 will do. The guy I spoke with on their customer support recommended getting the 15 with 16GB, but I was just wondering if that's necessary or not. Any suggestions are appreciated! Thank you!

Let me add to this. My daughter is a graphics art student. She had to run photo shop and several other programs for her class work. She was using at the time. A 2009 Imac quad core 2.66 and 16 GB memory,1TB drive and it used it all.I believe the graphics card was a ATI 6750 with 512MB memory.
She even had a 1TB external drive. If you are going to use a MBP, you need the one with all the power you can get.

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http://www.which.co.uk/technology/computing/reviews/laptops/best-buy/verdict/

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I was wondering if anyone can suggest what the best monitors for photoshop digital painting/editing etc are at the moment??
I still use a crt as I've heard years ago that their colour depth were alot better than lcd's or tft's that were around then. I'd assume that's no longer the case. Can someone please suggest what the best monitors currently are?
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Best Mouse for Photoshop

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New to this forum. I appologize if Im not in the correct area, please point me. Wondering if anyone knew which mouse is best for Photoshop. ie: using magnetic lasso, fine touch up/restoration work etc ?
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I second Mylenium's emotion. I've been using Logitech programmable mice for 10 years. Currently I'm using the MX Revolution (wireless). Still working after 5 years of heavy use. My previous Logitech mouse was still working fine after 6 years, but didn't like Vista when I got a new computer.
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I work on big files, tho not that big.
For many of the time-critical things I do in Photoshop seem to be single-processor, so even tho I have an 8-core machine, often only one is being used. This includes things like flatening and saving. So I am not sure that (unless you have other programs running) you would ever see an advantage to more than 4 cores.
What I do notice when I work with big files, is that I keep a copy of Activity Monitor open, and whenever the green sector in memory goes to zero, my computer becomes unusably slow, and I usually reboot. I don't understand memory managment on the Mac, but whatever "inactive" means, it really means "swap yourself to death". So I have 14GB of RAM on my computer, and I usually don't run out even when dealing with big files. But I know that 8GB would not have been enough. Photoshop may not use more than 2GB, but it and the OS can cache materials and when those caches get too big, my computer comes to a halt. With your files, you may find 32GB to be useful.
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MacPaige wrote:
I have already tried Pixelator but it does not have some of the features that I really beed (like drop shadow).
Could have fooled me!

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