Graphic/ GPU Intensive Applications on Macbook Air?

Hey all
Im planning to get a MacBook for my GCSE's, and im leaning towards the air.
I will be running applications such as Adobe Photoshop CS5, After Effects CS5, Lightroom CS5, and Final Cut Express regularly, so would a 13" 1.86ghz MBA C2D Processor with 4gb of RAM be able to run these apps fast and efficiently with no lag? Or should I opt for the baseline MBP 13"? Im also looking for portability, as im going to be taking it into school
Thanks

The MacBook Air is an excellent notebook. I would recommend the maximum configuration that you can afford.
I have a 13 inch 2.13 GHz C2D, 4 GB RAM with 256 GB SSD and I can verify there is little difference in performance between it and and and i7 based MacBook Pro (with conventional hard drive). xBench score MBA this config = 183, base model = 120 and i7 MacBook Pro 172 (Processor and RAM based tests such as GeekBench are not particularly relevant when the major bottleneck for many applications is disk access time)
The relative difference in real world use between the i7 based Pro and 2.13 GHz MBA is around 15 % based on combined testing across a range of software and processes.
The combination of graphics card, SSD and processor is as important as the processor alone and overall makes a significant difference.
For an informed opinion I would suggest you read the review at Macworld and look at their comparison benchmarks.
Good luck with your decision, I am more than happy with mine

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