Can 2008 MacBook Air Used 1.60GHz support Adobe Suite 5.5 or 6 without crashing?

I have an old Macbook pro 2008 running OSX 10.8.4 but my screen as stopped working and I'd rather get something less bulky and lighter. I'm on a budget and i do plenty of freelance designing. Usually just on Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign. Can a MacBook Air with a 1.60GHz processor speed and Intel Core 2 Duo work well enough to continue my designing? I'm not super tech savy so most of the threads loose me when they start speaking about the draw backs. Please help!

I have used this exact macbook with the Adobe CS5 Extended package before with no problem.  At 1.6GHz and 2GB ram, you are going to be very tight on resources, and thus editing very LARGE images may be slow and time-consuming...  However, this computer will get the job done.
Cheers!

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