Whatever it is it's much faster than my old Core-2 Intel and plenty fast
enough to run PhotoShop. At $350 (shipping included) I thought it was a
good deal. I just looked at the specs. It's an AMD A8-5500 APU with
Radeon HD graphics running at 3.2 GHz. I haven't a clue what any of
that means performance-wise except to say that it's fast enough and way
faster than the old Dell.
Chuck Norcutt
On 6/12/2013 10:38 AM, C.H.Ling wrote:
> Don't know which AMD CPU you have, the quad core AMD is much slower than
> intel. Could be equivalent to an i3 in performance. I have zero problem with
> the USB 3.0 port on my wife notebook and the USB 3.0 HDD except the USB 3.0
> cable came with the Buffalo HDD has a bending lead causing some
> intermittent.
>
> Anyway, PS is not a hardware demanding application, most low cost machine
> will just work fine. But don't tell me you are going to stitch up a 1GB
> image file.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>> My current machine (since last October) is a refurbished HP Pavilion
>> with AMD 4 core processor and on-chip video, 8GB RAM and Win 7. The
>> only additions to it other than as it came out-of-the-box were to add a
>> 1TB SATA drive for image storage and an eSATA card to support the
>> Thermaltake BlacX drive dock for backups. The machine has USB 3.0 ports
>> which I tried to use for backup via a USB 3.0 to eSATA converter but it
>> proved unreliable. I don't know if the problem is the USB 3.0 ports or
>> (more likely) the cheap converter but it doesn't matter since the eSATA
>> card (from the old Dell XP machine) works just fine.
>>
>> I paid $350 for the machine (with free shipping) and nothing for the
>> additions since they came from the old WinXP machine. I have made
>> absolutely no additions, modifications or tuning changes to support PS6.
>> I'm sure I could diddle with it and tune it to go faster but it's
>> working fine for me as is. I forgot to mention that it's running my
>> Dell 24" IPS display from the old machine which is still operational.
>> Both use the same monitor, keyboard (ancient IBM PC clicky type) and
>> mouse via a KVM switch.
>>
>> On the other hand, I do not have 1/2 million images to manage.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>
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