The reason I bought it was the low price, the fact that it had Win7
installed rather than Win8 and also had 8GB of RAM. The old Dell was
forever destined to be 32 bit. No way to upgrade to 64 bit other than
buying a new motherboard that would likely be a bad fit in a custom Dell
case. It will stay 32 bit and may become a dedicated Linux machine one
of these days.
Chuck Norcutt
On 6/12/2013 6:58 PM, C.H.Ling wrote:
> The A8 is the more recent batch, it is slightly faster than the old Phenom
> II, similar in performance to the i3-3125 at 3.3GHz. It roughly double the
> speed of your old Core 2 intel and at half speed of my E3-1230v2. But at
> $350 for the whole system with Win 7, it is a great deal and certainly good
> enough for PS use.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>> 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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