Laptop spec for Photoshop

Hi,
I'm sure this question has come up before but I'm putting together a laptop that will be mainly used for Photoshop, CS5 at the moment but later CS6 and possibly a bit of video editing as well. Any advice on whether it might be lacking in something or possibly overkill on others would be very welcome.
Lenovo ThinkPad W530
•     Intel Core i7-3630QM Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.40 GHz).
•     Windows 8 Pro 64.
•     15.6" FHD (1920 x 1080) LED Backlit Anti-Glare Display, with color calibration sensor.
•     NVIDIA Quadro K2000M Graphics with 2GB DDR3 Memory.
•     16 GB DDR3 - 1600MHz (2 DIMM).
•     128GB Solid State Drive, SATA3.
•     DVD Recordable 8x Max, Dual Layer, Ultrabay Enhanced w/ SW Royalty for Windows 8.
Not sure whether the 128GB SSD drive will be enough for the OS and programs but I'll be using external drives for storage.
Thanks,
Vince

As I'm primarily a Mac user and not a big fan of laptops (though I have three of those myself), I'll comment on the hard drive space only.
• 128GB Solid State Drive, SATA3.
That's downright pathetic. Unrealistically small.
Shoot for at least 300 or 500 GB, and plan on a dedicated, physically separate hard drive for Photoshop scratch disk.
No danger of overkill with the rest of your planned specs.

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At the potential risk of your pretending to kick me off what you misguidedly perceive as your thread—which by the way you would have no right to do, since you do not own a thread just because you started it—I'll have a couple of comments on your original thoughts.
There's no reason to be "confused" here.
1.— Utilization of the GPU is indeed always beneficial to using recent versions of Photoshop, regardless of whether you work with video or not. Whether you "need it or not" is a different discussion.
2.— Of course it's absolutely necessary to be able to work with a monitor that has a narrower gamut than your working space or even your output target profile. In my case, for example, as I'm 99.9% concerned with high quality prints, I work exclusively in ProPhoto RGB. I'd be in a pickle if I were to restrict my work to just what I can see on any monitor regardless of how wide its gamut were.
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5.— In the past I had run Photoshop on a variety of different nVidia GeForce cards with up to 512 MB of VRAM, but with Photoshop CS6's more advanced utilization of the GPU I have moved to a mutant, factory-overclocked, flashed ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1 GB of VRAM driving side-by-side dual 22" monitors in my current desktop Mac Pro 2.66 GHz under OS X Lion 10.7.5 and I couldn't possibly be happier.
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