The CPU is good but you de

The CPU is good but you definitely want a laptop with an NVIDIA video card. The reason is that you can take advantage of GPU acceleration, that improves rendering speed AND render quality!

My blog post explains that part:

Vancouver Video Production Blog: Adobe CS5.5 Max Render Quality and GPU Acceleration.

Now not just any NVIDIA card will automatically unlock the GPU acceleration but if your card is fast enough then it is very easy to unlock this functionality.

There is a link in the comment section of this blog post discussing how to easily unlock the GPU acceleration. BTW, In my laptop I have a 360M card.

Vancouver Videographer – Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 review