Entry Level Laptop for CS6

Hello, im new to the forum and have been looking through a lot of posts about machine specs over the past couple of days. Hoping someone can help!
I'm looking to buy a budget machine (approx £1500 max) to run CS6. We will be using Illustrator and Photoshop for fairly basic tasks (producing brochures, editing photos etc. ) It will all be static design work ( no video).
Most of the posts ive come across are discussing "video" , i am trying to find out if we can get away with a lower spec machine for our basic requirment. We're looking at this 4gb RAM lenovo W530 as its just about the right price level.
http://www.dabs.com/products/lenovo-thinkpad-w530-intel-core-i7-3630qm -4gb-500gb-15-6--windows-7-pro-64bit-preload---windows-8-8PBT.html?ref s=431420000-54600000-4294941858-50600&src=3
Will this do the job? We'll not be using CS6 on a full time basis, ad hoc as and when we need to produce an advert, presentation or som other from of promotional material.
Any help would be much appreciated!

I actually did a helpful video that may answer your questions and those of other users.
http://youtu.be/BypkjzYFfRg
Primarily you need to focus on the following:
Dual to Quad Core Processors at 2.0GHz or hgher
Dedicated Video 1GB or Better
4GB of Ram minimum 8GB ideally anything beyond 32GB is overkill unless you go 8Core
Multiple Hard Drives, 2 are good so one is used as Scratch Disk, 4 is better 6 with 2 SSD Raid0 as Scatch Disk is Best.
If you want laptop info check out these two articles on my blog:
http://robertoblake.com/blog/2013/06/thoughts-on-buying-a-photoshop-cc-laptop/
http://robertoblake.com/blog/2013/08/buying-a-photoshop-mac-laptop-2013/
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