Look here: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/438156

18.4"??  Will it have its own suitcase when you travel?

I don't have any personal experience with Toshiba other than my mother-in-law's basic laptop.  Tosh seems to want to load up their computers with a ton of unnecessary software.  I hate that.  But the laptop itself has worked just fine since last summer.

At a minimum I think you'll want 2 GB of RAM per physical core, so 8GB would be a good choice.

Go with Windows 7 Professional unless you think you'll need the bitlocker feature of Ultimate.  Home Premium is a little weak for editors.

Your 2 hard drives should be 7200 RPM; you may be able to get away with a 5400 RPM drive for the OS and Programs drive.

-Jeff

To follow up a bit on the thread that Harm links to - my Sager has been a great performer. It's now getting long in the tooth, and only has a Core2-Quad processor, 4GB RAM and the nVidia GeForce 8800m GTX-512, with 3x 200GB 7200RPM SATA II HDD's, so much more power is probably available from them now. This machine is in use most days, out on the patio, and even in Arizona heat. It has been an excellent performer, and I would definitely look to them, when replacement time comes. I am a very satisfied users.

Hunt

Never - just so long as one has a keyboard cover!

Probably a month after I got my Sager, they went to 3x 250GB SATA II's, and the overall price fell by about US$50. Oh well.

Going back some years, there was an ad featuring a young man, who had just bought the ultimate computer. It was something like the "8E." He was shown lovingly placing it into the passenger seat of his sports car and petting the box, as he drove home. At the traffic signals, he'd swoon over his new computer. At about the third traffic signal, he looked up to see a giant billboard announcing the release of the "9G!" Poor fellow never even got it home, before it had been replaced. It happens to all of us.

Hunt

Yes, I understand that technology thing. I had not gotten my Sager set up yet, and they were already offering it with 300GB HDD's. I see that it's up to 500GB now! Oh well, that is progress. Also, I noticed that a fully tricked-out unit is now about US$400 less, than what I paid, and there are tons of improvements - faster, bigger and cheaper... Still, my unit has served me very well in some pretty extreme conditions, so I have no room to complain.

Good luck,

Hunt