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I'm planning on buying this HP laptop tomorrow. I will use Adobe Photoshop and the Sims 2 on it, and am planning on buying the Sims 3 later. How decent is this laptop? 10pts to best answer!

HP dv5-1250us (AMD Turion™ X2 Ultra ZM-80 processor 4GB RAM 400GB Hard Drive 15.4" WXGA Display Windows Vista Premium 64bit

Operating System Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium 64-bit with Service Pack 1
Processor AMD Turion™ X2 Ultra ZM-80 Dual-Core Mobile Processor
Processor Speed 2.10 GHz
Processor Cache 6 MB L2 Cache
Bus Speed Up to 4400 MT/s system bus running at AC/DC mode 35 watt
Memory 4096MB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)
Max supported =8192MB
Accessible Memory Slots 2
Video Graphics ATI Radeon™ HD 3450 Graphics with M82-SCE with up to 2302MB total graphics memory with 512MB dedicated
Hard Drive 400GB (5400RPM) Hard Drive (SATA)
Finish and Features HP Intersect Imprint finish & HP Webcam with integrated digital microphone
Multimedia Drive LightScribe SuperMulti DVD?R/RW Double Layer
Display 15.4" Diagonal WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen (1280 x 800) Display
Network Card Integrated 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector)
Wireless Option Wireless LAN 802.11a/b/g/n WLAN
Digital Media 5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader for Secure Digital cards, MultiMedia cards, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, or xD Picture cards
Fax/Modem High speed 56k modem
Audio SRS Premium Sound
Keyboard 101-key compatible & 1 Quick Launch Button
Pointing Device Touch Pad with On/Off button and dedicated vertical scroll Up/Down pad
PC Card Slots 1 ExpressCard/54 Slot (also supports ExpressCard/34)
External Notebook Ports
4 Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0, 4th port shared with eSATA
2 Headphone out
1 microphone-in
HDMI
1 VGA (15-pin)
eSATA + USB 2.0
1 RJ-11 (modem)
1 RJ -45 (LAN)
1 notebook expansion port 3
1 IEEE 1394 Firewire (4-pin)
1 Consumer IR (Remote Receiver)
Oh, and I'm getting it for $850 because it has a $50 rebate (it was $900) and I plan on buying a 3 year waranty.

Are you sure it's only $850? haha

Actually I've seen this one before. It actually is an excellent laptop and will run all three of those programs no problem whatsoever. The extra memory (4GB is above average) will help with Photoshop, and the 6MB L2 Cache will as well. I prefer Intel over AMD when it comes to CPUs but the Turion X2 is awesome and will wow you with how fast it works. The graphics card is pretty good (it sounds amazing just at first glance but it's actually a sub-$100 card that's not too far above integrated graphics). If you have Photoshop CS4 it will help speed you up because CS4 uses the CPU to make things snappier. I can tell a difference but I'm using an iMac with 256MB of graphics memory.

If you don't really care about all that then just read this: It'll work just fine for what you want to use it for

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