New laptop for Indesign and Photoshop CC

Thinking this new work system is a little weak for the task of full time indesign and Photoshop CC use (with outlook and office programs running also), but interested in recommendations before downloading and getting all set up. Working on up to 80 page indesign files linking to hundreds of high resolution PSD images.
I-5-4200m
4.0 ram
120 hd
Intel hd graphics 4600
CC  will be all new for me, but feeling with the above I am starting undergunned? If so, please recommend improvements and or links to a better laptop setup (lenovo)
Thanks in advance....

With regards to configuration, if you don't have more than 4GB of memory and if you are running Windows, you cannot reasonably run the 64-bit version of Windows and you need the 64-bit version of Windows to run the 64-bit version of InDesign and Photoshop.
For any type of graphic arts work these days, you should not consider any system with less than 8GB of memory.
In terms of compatibility, the current version of InDesign has had no problem opening any of the InDesign documents that I have dating back to InDesign 1.0 (and even beta test versions of same)! For long lines of text, you may see some reflow from very early InDesign versions or slightly different hyphenation, but document integrity should be there.
There should be no compatibility problems at all with the latest version of Photoshop opening older PSD files.
          - Dov

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