Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0

For our Photoshop Elements test, we used a selection of 400 3Mega Pixel photographs taken in a variety of surroundings using the batch file processing function in the Elements Editor. We performed all of the auto fixes, including Auto Levels, Auto Contrast, Auto Colour and Sharpen before resizing the image to 640x480 and saving as a high quality JPEG.



From our usual 2D tests, we decided to only include the ones that there was an actual difference in, rather than have pages of similar results. Adobe Photoshop is still faster with a Western Digital 10,000RPM hard drive in both cases, but 2GB of memory makes the SSD slower then both of them.

Xvid Encoding:

We tested video encoding performance using VirtualDub-MPEG version 1.6.15 and a multithreaded version of the Xvid codec, along with the LAME MT MP3 encoder for encoding audio. We did a two-pass encode of a 15-minute 276MB digital TV recording with a target file size of 100MB.



There's a marginal performance improvement here with the SSD but not enough for you to actually drop what you're doing and go out and buy one. A few seconds after several minutes is neither here nor there.