Windows 8 and CS5/CS6

Hi
I'm buying a laptop for my son who uses either CS5 or CS6. Could someone please tell me if there are any issues with installing and running either on a laptop running Win 8. The laptop we are looking at is a gaming one which has a dedicated graphics card, and 16gb RAM. I have reviewed the forum content and have been able to isolate two key items being the graphics card and how to install...
What graphics cards are compatible? this seems to be the bioggest issue with Win8????
Does anyone know of any graphics cards that are known not to be compatible? (sometimes a card may still be ok even if it is not on a list of compatible ones)
He would need to install the app under the compatability mode option - am I right?
Has anyone identified any other issues??
Thanks everyone!

Ideally there should be no issue running either on a Windows 8 system. CS6 is the most recent version and been tested and confirmed to be compatible with Windows 8. CS5 will work but you might have to use the compativility mode. If you search this forum using the Ask A Question field at the top of the forum page, and enter CS5 Windows 8, you will find several results supporting it.
As far as the graphics card goes, I am not tech savvy enough to answer beyond remembered hearsay, but I believe a gaming graphics card is one of the better choices all around.

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