Laptop for photo editing?

Looking more and more now, agggh…it’s confusing :s

On holiday I use my laptop to view photos I have taken, adjust wb and exposure, a bit of sharpening and that’s it.
It would be nice if it could also handle the TOPAZ plug-ins, and Photomatix Pro 3.

Battery life is NOT important ( I have my little Acer 10# netbook for wifi and watching movies on the plane.)
The multimedia laptop would be plugged in all the time. Ideally it would be a smaller screen (11" or 12"), but something that displays color well.

In a PM it was suggested I look at the HP Pavilion DV3-4038TX ( shopping.pchome.com.tw/?mod=item … 3&ROWNO=10 )

and there’s more: shopping.pchome.com.tw/?mod=stor … _NO=DHAQ13