What Processor for Captivate 3

Captivate couldn't care less about the CPU. It is a normal user level application and does not use any CPU-level optimizations. Sure, differences exist, but

a) that is something for operating system programmers, and
b) differences between different Intel processors are at least as big as those between Intel and AMD CPUs in general!

Everything else is marketing ("Intel inside" has been a *very well-funded* and powerful campaign). Until Intel released the Core2 chips I would always advice to buy AMD, but now it depends - but normal users need not care, any modern CPU is fine unless you run the latest GAMES. Even for Adobe software like the Creative Suite, which requires LOTS of resources, the CPU is much less important, if you spend the money on RAM (depends, for Captivate it does not matter much, for the Creative Suite it does) or a RAID-array with 10.000rpm disks (instead of the normal 7200rpm ones) you get *much* more improvement in system speed than by buying the most expensive CPU.

Thanks for the obvious answer, Rick. I did download the C3 trial yesterday, and so far things seem to work OK. I have an AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 dual core processor.

Captivate 2 runs quite smoothly on the AMD 8300+ X2 with 4GB RAM. I won't be using Captivate 3 anytime soon, but my guess is that it'll run just fine.

Hi Mister C.

Unfortunately, I can't advise one way or the other, as I've not ever used Captivate on a AMD processor. But out of simple curiosity, why not download the trial version and test to see?

Cheers... Rick