I hope to start spring classes next year and am trying to save for a laptop. Taking classes using Photoshop, Lightwave, Macromedia pakage and a few other... but I'll want to put P5 (yes I'll finally reinstall it) on the LT for those b'tween times. Can anyone recommend a good one that will be fast/powerful enough to handle all of these programs?

I'm running it on a 1Ghz woth 128mb of ram, and while its not as fast as the desktop (2.8Ghz) its not that much slower to be frustrating so a more up to date laptop should work real nice.......can't recommend one though, except get as fast a one as you can.......Steve

I'm running a Toshiba Satellite with a 2Ghz processor with 1Gb of ram, so yes it is possible. The only recommendation I have is get one with a large HD, or a decently sized external HD.

I'm running it quite well on a Toshiba P25, 17" wide screen, 1 GB RAM, 3.0 Ghz HT processor. Runs bettter on this than my desktop. For that matter, everything runs better on this!

I have P5 on an IBM ThinkPad R40 (1.8 GHz, 640 MB Ram) and have vever had problems with it.

One thing about laptops is how many are offered with tiny hard drives, and a small amount of memory. I'd hold out for one with a minimum of 512MB of RAM, and a wide screen monitor. (I have a 19" monitor for my desktop, and my Poser 5 work screen is cramped due to the large paramater dials section). You can always get around a small laptop hard drive by adding a USB external drive. But then your computer would not be so portable.

I run P5 on an Acer Aspire 1700C, but I wouldn't exactly call it a laptop (17" screen, 7.5 kg, full size keyboard, desktop technology inside). If I were to put it on my lap while working, the hot air from the processor fan would leave me nursing some hardboiled eggs lol. P4 2.66, 1 Gb RAM, 80 Gb 5400 RPM disk, P5 flies.

I can only work on a laptop right now. I have a super duper Dell Inspiron 3.4G processor, nice big 60G hard drive. However, I'm such a pig with all my content I need a firewire drive to hold my Runtimes-- except for the main P5 one of course. It works very well. I have a smaller one 2.5G, 40G HD which I will put less graphic proggies on as a backup. Same Firewire External though. The smaller one has a less successful screen. Too tiny and not standard enough Gamma. It's an Alienware. I prefer the Dell. The laptop is not the problem-- make sure you can get at least 1G memory, lots do it on 512, but I've had little luck. And check the comfort of the screen, mine is a widescreen,nearly 15 inch, actually maybe 15 wide but narrower height. Good Graphic card so I can run it at 1920 by 1200 pixels. Lets me do most render in the working window which saves on crashes. em Emily

I've got a three-year old laptop that I'm chugging by with at the moment. It's a bit slow compared to current systems, but remains adequate for my immediate needs. 384 Mb RAM seems to be okay. I've worked on a system with 256 Mb RAM and it's not enough for Poser without Poser constantly using the hard drive as virtual memory. 1 Gb RAM would be great, but it's an expensive jump on a laptop (for example, upgrading to 512 Mb from 256 Mb is $64 at Dell while going to 1 Gb is another $255). Spending more on a larger hard drive is a better choice if money is tight. I'm not sure what advantages exist for having 1 Gb over 512 Mb RAM other than possibly slightly faster renderings. I do know what a pain it is to try to delete loaded content when there's not enough space (most products don't have an undelete function). As long as I don't hit physical limits for RAM, my concern is more with the physical space limitations on a hard drive.

"my concern is more with the physical space limitations on a hard drive." I maxxed out a 60 gig hard drive with only 3 extra runtimes-- I grant you Downloads was huge! And the PP one even huger. Fire wire is a good alternative option-- I would not trust USB 2--never seen it live up to it's speed claims. There is a tiny hesitation with my Maxtor Firewire but I run all my important runtimes off of it. And plenty of room for scratch and backup. EM

I'm running it on Desk note 15"LCD, 512MB RAM, 1.8 Ghz processor. it's very hot, and the cpu fan keep moving fast and noisy. it seem like killing my CPU.