Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0

For our Photoshop Elements test, we used a selection of 400 three megapixel 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.


On average, the performance of both boards, with both dual and single core CPUs, is virtually identical despite the fact that the J&W MINIX is running dual channel memory compared to the Jetway's single channel limit.

File Compression & Encryption:

Our file compression and decompression tests were split into two halves to cover a broad spectrum of performance. The first test we ran was to compress and encrypt the MPEG-2 source file from our video encoding test with the highest quality compression ratio. Secondly, we compressed and encrypted the folder of 400 photographs used in our Photoshop Elements test with the same compression settings.



With a dual core CPU there's virtually no difference again, however with a single core Sempron the J&W falls behind by a quite significant 14 and 34 seconds compared to the Jetway.

File Decompression & Decryption:

The two RAR archives created during the compression and encryption tests were then decompressed and decrypted.



Decompression performance is again almost identical and agnostic of whether a single or dual core CPU is being used. Memory performance or even chipset choice obviously do not play a significant factor in affecting this result on these platforms.

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.


Again there's very little difference between both the boards - a couple of seconds in favour of the Jetway at best between either single or dual core CPUs.