Your OS and RAM will definitely make a difference here. Also a large Hard Drive will help. If possible, partition the Hard Drive to allow for multiple disks you can use for Photoshop Scratch Disks. I've been using Photoshop 6 (now 7 but haven't used it much yet) while I'm on the road with my laptop (PIII 600, 192mb RAM, was 6GB HD but upped it recently to 40GB HDD with the partitions I'm talking about). It's been working fine for me even for print stuff, though mostly I am doing screen res stuff. I wouldn't go to Win XP on my system because it is too RAM intensive and my RAM is maxed out. One key thing with Photoshop is to make sure you have plenty of RAM and the extra partitions for Scratch disks will help too. I would recommend no less than 512mb RAM and would definitely go to 1gb or higher if possible - especially if you are considering running Win XP. Otherwise you're ok with less RAM if you're running a lighter OS like Win 2000 or Win 98 (though I would recommend Win 2000 over Win 98 any day). Other than that, the issue with color fidelity is the only one I can see potentially getting in your way on a laptop and, as others have pointed out, there are workarounds for that as well (like doing a final check on a CRT before going to print). Good luck with it. Frank