Laptops: Another request for advice please!

We're after a laptop for home, with about 500 quid to spend. We need to be able to...

- Photo processing incl. Photoshop, and to store lots of images (thousands)
- Store extensive music library (thousands of songs)
- Use stats programs such as SPSS
- And all yer standard stuff, email, wireless internet, word processing etc.

...without slowing down or throwing a wobbler. I know next to nothing about PCs (I'm a Mac user at work but wifey needs a PC) so don't know if a 500 quid laptop can do this no probs or if we need to spend a bit more.
Anyone got any recommendations/steer clears?

 

Fork out slighlty more and get an entry level Sony Vaio - failing that, the Toshiba Sat 153 is a good buy.

The laptop should handle mosth things, albeit slower than a desktop PC. The major problem with laptops is hard drive storage space. Does it have to be a laptop?

 

what about a laptop purely for games i.e. fm06?

 

Laptops vs. desktops

Ta for that. Yep, a laptop is preferred, mostly for aesthetic reasons as we have a small but nice flat and a big hulking screen/tower/workstation set-up would look stupid. Yep, that is the wife's reason. I just wondered if, for the things we wanted it to do (see above msg), would a relatively cheap laptop do the job.

 

RE: Laptops vs. desktops

The answer is yes, but you may need additional storage spacethrough an external drive eventually.

Aesthetic reasons? Mmmmm...

Tell your Mrs....you can't upgrade a laptop...if one item fails you're snookered. So it could cost you eventually.