Hardware Question regarding PhotoMerge

[jarvis393]

I am not sure where to put this question so I thought I would start it here.

I have a very specific need for photoshop and I am trying to figure out what hardware I need at minimum to solve this need.

I do a lot of photography of kitchens that my cabinet shop produces.

Many of these pictures are taken with a tilt-shift lens that captures three images of the space.

One image brackets the ceiling.

One image captures the middle levels.

One image shoots everything below the middle.

These shots are then Photo-Merged in photoshop.

In a studio setting I can get images shot and processed into a jpeg on my desktop in under 3 minutes.

The problem with this strategy is I don't have the ability to see what my shot looks like until I am back at my office.

I would like to be able to do this while I am at the kitchen taking the pictures.

Can anybody advise how much hardware is necessary in a laptop computer to handle just this one function?

[JJMack]

There are laptops available these days that are as powerful as some office workstations. Its more a budget issue how much are you willing to spend. Would you be satisfied with a low cost laptop if it took twice as long to stitch 3 images.  Stitching  three images  I also would expect does not requite a workstation class laptop. Photoshop runs well on laptop I would think many low cost Dell laptop could stitch three image in a short time.   ACR can also Stitch Image and I believe its photo stitching process is faster than Photoshop's menu File>Automate>Photomerge process Script process.

Working as fast as I could the following 6 image 5MP Jpeg stitch took 29 Seconds using ACR to do the stitching. I repeated the process to captures screens for each step required. I omitted the click on save to save the DGN file the ACR saved and displayed the thumbnail  that I then opened