5400 RPM vs 7200 RPM for Photoshop on MacBook Pro  Started May
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for Photoshop on MacBook Pro May 28, 2010  My apologies if this
subject has been beaten to death but I'm hoping for some fresh
point of views....  I'm thinking of getting the new 17" i5
MacBook Pro. If I don't custom configure, the default hard drive
is 5400 RPM. When I visited the Apple Store, the display models
had Photoshop CS4 installed and seemed to be okay when I
launched it but naturally, you really can't see the true results
unless you start working with it.  My question are:  1. Would
5400 RPM be sufficient to use Photoshop CS4 for image editing?
Any drawbacks?  2. Has anyone compared 5400 RPM vs 7200 RPM and
noticed a significant difference in terms of battery life? Heat?
Noise? And MOST of all the time to take run a task in Photoshop
such as running a filter, startup etc.?  3. Would it be worth
the 50.00 upgrade