How well does macbook air run photoshop?

I'm considering the 11" MB air and an the 27" monitor because I do a lot of traveling and writing that would be better with a light laptop. But I also do a fair amount of photo editing in Photoshop and am wondering what experience people have with running Photoshop and other graphics-intensive tasks on these machines. I run CS4 currently on an iMac. What is your experience? Thanks in advance!

I use CS4 Photoshop on both a 2010 11" and a 2011 13" (both 4 gb), and can confirm that it runs just fine, without issue, and no perceptible handicap as compared with a MBP (which I also have used it on).

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