Photography: Is this laptop good for pictures?

Is this laptop good for pictures.

for photoshop use.

My camera is a Nikon D5000 and I'm shooting RAW.

main use would be for events pictures, but I'm also interested in photo manipulation.

http://gulf.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/en/product/Satellite-C660-1RR/1107870/toshibaShop/false/

Yes. It seems pretty good.

It really depends on your budget. If you can afford a MacBook Pro 15 or 17 inch, that is the industry standard.

Whatever you get, load it up with as much RAM as you can afford with the best graphics card you can afford. Whichever OS you go with, get a solid backup system. Since you shoot RAW you need to backup everything and store it off-computer if possible because those files will eat up your memory.

If you want to build a PC, that will be the best over time because you can "easily" replace parts as they become outdated. A Mac is the best but once that runs its course in 6-10 years, you will have to replace the whole machine.

Honestly that linked comp doesn't look that great.

It would work. Couple it with a calibration device and that toshiba screen will turn out to be quite nice.

An i5 or even i7 processor with 8gb of ram instead of the 4 on this model will be significantly faster.

It's on the edge of not being good enough, you really need a multi core processor running at around 3GHz or faster. 500Gb is OK for the Operating system, you will need more for storage. Think about an SSD rather than a hard drive for the drive that carries the Op System and Programs.

The graphics card will use some of your RAM, a card with more video memory is better, much better.

This computer is not good enough for any HD video editing should you need that.

Unless you actually need the portability of a laptop a tower system is much, much more cost effective, for what this laptop costs you could have a computer that is fast enough and with enough capacity to do anything including video editing with lots of space to add storage hard drives.

You can build your own, there's some learning required, but there are plenty of sites that will walk you through it. Everything just bolts together and plugs in. You can use any Operating System PC or Mac (or both) and for a fraction of the cost.

Compared to my £400 tower system my Macbook Pro (£2000+) or more accurately the Clubs Macbook Pro, is much slower almost to the point of being an issue.

I'd really say it's a bit small at 15.6" for running an image editor. You want at least a 17" screen.

Ideally you really want a desktop, not a Laptop. They're more powerful, and more robust, and you can get a huge monitor pretty cheap these days. In image editing monitor size matters.