Re: [Hampshire] Sempron or Celeron

> > It will mainly be used for word processing etc, email & web. However
> > my Desktop has an Athlon Xp, and I am constantly suprised that the
> > amount of software that requires an Intel CPU to run.
>
> You are kidding aren't you? I've never yet seen any software that
> actually needed an Intel CPU rather than an equivalent AMD. I've
> seen software that requires a specific generation of processor
> or features, but not one brand of x86 over another one.

The latest versions (2 & 3) of Adobe's Premiere Elements require an
Pentium or compatible with SSE2. I thought it was Intel only as my
Athlon XP would not run this product - but it looks like the lack of
SSE2 that was the issue...

Chris