Samsung Chronos 7

Careful with this line of laptops if you are shopping the market. They have a great onboard ATI gpu but for some reason it was designed to only turn on for specific applications and adobe products do not fit this bill.

I have been extremely disappointed with samsung at their poor response to handling this problem as they have done nothing for almost a year now.

On the bright side it is an i7 with 8 gigs ram and a terabyte hard drive, throw a 9 image hdr panorama at it from a 600d and it eats it right up even with on board graphics so just be aware of this if you go laptop shopping.

What Adobe's do you need to use it?

My lenovo does a similar trick where it runs the ATi card, or the on board graphics depending on demand and I have never had a problem with it.

You mean Enduro? It is AMD's version on nVidia's Optimus tech. You cant blame the laptop manufacturer for that, it is just Adobe that likes nVidia more.

FYI, all Adobe photo editing products run very nicely on the latest onboard GPU on Intel-based systems so the GPU proper never really is needed for photo editing.

adobe will utilize a gpu if you give it the option, it helps for rendering and zooming in on images as well as open GL operations which I use alot for certain applications http://helpx.adobe.com …hotoshop-cs6-gpu-faq.html you dont want to waste ram and cpu resources on something that should be handled by gpu. Adobe will utilize ATI products just fine, it is the samsung bios which prevents the gpu from operating correctly. HP envy has the same card however HP updated the bios to allow full control over the GPU which can be used exclusively with CS6/ I have an ATI card in my desktop and it works fine with CS6 but the chronos has major issues.

It's good for power saving and that seems the be the thing now.