I just looked at the tech specs for CS6 and didn't see anything that stood out as an extraordinary hardware requirement.

I suspect that, if CS5 ran on the machine, CS6 will run on it also.

The Nvidia Quadro NVS 160M card is on the low end of the video ram requirements, but still within spec.

Thanks MidrangeMan for the response.  It is appreciated.  

I am familiar with the system requirements for CS6.  My question is more technical.  Apparently Photshop CS6 has a new "Mercury Engine" (not completely sure what this is) that the software runs on that makes it much faster to use than the old version of Photoshop.  I spent some time on the Adobe forums, and apparently if your video card does not support certain standards, there could be some issues.  I tried going to Nvidia's forum to ask the question, but they are down until further notice.  The next best thing I could think of was to ask here if anyone had any specific information or had a laptop like mine and was running the software.  I don't believe the video card in my laptop supports the Mercury engine in Photoshop.  This means the software won't run as fast on my machine.  What I don't know is how much or how little of an issue it will be.

I will likely buy the upgrade and give it a try.  If anyone has any experience with this, I would still like to know your thoughts.

Thanks!