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 640 x 480 and saving as a high quality JPEG.


The Jetway outperforms the Shuttle by several seconds, which also features an Atom N330 dual-core, and extends a lead of about six percent over the single core Atom N230. Clearly, it still can't keep up with even the cheapest £20 single core Sempron from AMD though which is 77 percent faster.

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.



File compression performance drops a bit behind the Shuttle X27-D in both occasions, although it fritters back and forth between the AMD - the four virtual cores of the Atom N330 generally work quite well with our multi-threaded WinRAR test.

File Decompression & Decryption:

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



Decompression performance is mostly CPU (and memory) limited here as they all feature the same hard drive, but the Jetway shaves of a small amount of time compared to the rest of the Atom boards.