Laptops & CS6

Question

I am employing an Instructional Designer and have asked them about software they would need. One of the products they requested was CS6, which I can see the value in as we intend to use videos. I asked our IT Department for guidance on a suitable laptop as the person will need mobility (looks & robustness of the laptop not important). I have been advised that of the adobe products the person will use (flash, photoshop, illustrator & premier) it is the video editing that will be the main requirement for laptop specifications. The amount of video editing work the person will do is definately less than 5% of thier job and the videos would eb less than 5 min in length each. I have no idea about hardware as such am looking for guidance.
Our IT Deprtmant suggested ther laptop below. Can anyone tell me whether they would expect this laptop would provide an acceptable level of performance? I dont expect the laptop to be super fast, but I dont want it to be 'annoyingly' slow when working. Thanks.
HP 6560b i7-2620M 4GB memory 500 15.6" W7
Kingston memory - 4 GB - SO DIMM 204-pin - DDR3 (x 3, total 16GB)

Answer 1

That one is even worse than the laptop that the IT department originally specified for the following reasons:
1) The screen is even smaller than the originally-specified laptop.
2) That laptop does not offer a discrete GPU at all - even at astronomical additional cost. It is available only with the integrated Intel graphics.
And as many people stated, Premiere Pro in any version (even older versions) will not display correctly on any monitor with a vertical screen resolution of less than 900 pixels: Critical portions of the work area will be completely cut off, with absolutely no way at all whatsoever to recover it. And depending on the version of Premiere Pro, pre-CS4 requires a 1280x1024 display resolution while CS4 and later requires a 1280x900 display resolution. Unfortunately, both of those laptops do not offer displays higher than 1366x768 (that's correct: none of the screens offered on those two models have a vertical resolution higher than 768 pixels).
In addition, neither of those two laptops offer CPUs with more than two physical cores. And as I stated in several other threads, no PC with a dual-core CPU, not even the very fastest of the desktop models, performs as fast in Premiere as a PC with even a mediocre-performing quad-core CPU. And despite the "i7" branding on the mobile CPUs offered in these two laptops, those particular mobile i7s are merely mobile i5s with a little more L3 cache (all mobile i5 CPUs are only dual-core with hyperthreading).
Oh, did I mention that neither of those two laptops offer an NVIDIA CUDA GPU at all whatsoever even at extra cost?
With all of those drawbacks combined, don't expect either laptop to perform as fast as even a five-year-old Core 2 Quad desktop with a mediocre-performing CUDA GPU.