Attroll wrote: Thank you Ussnorway. I have decided to go with Windows 10 so from what I read the solid state drive should be fine, I hope. I was told that the i5 is just as good as the i7. I read that a couple of places. Where did you get your information about the i5 chip not rendering well? I would like to know now so I can change the order in the morning if I need to. Define "just as good" Your new i5 will be a 6th generation chip (i.e, one back from the current) so lets look at the other two compatible chips in that generation. The recommended price difference between them is about $200 (shop around for real prices because many shops will have old stock they are willing to discount) and they draw about the same power 51w vs 65w but its not a laptop anymore so power isn't a major issue now intel stats = ARK | Compare Intel® Products In laymans terms a core is the brain of the chip and determines how fast it can do mathematical functions like counting A thread is how many "things" it can do at the same time so two threads = two things at once and 4 = 4 (assuming ram is free to use) so a chip with more threads will be better at multitasking than a chip with less threads because that second chip has to stop what it was doing or wait until the first task is done before starting another The i7 is fastest but of course you would expect that and it has twice as many threads so scenarios that involve multitasking are faster with the i7 and not just because it has a slightly higher overall speed i.e, the i7 can do a heavy cpu task and still manage to "walk along" because it doesn't have to stop as much. As a real world scenario lets say you play around with Adobe Felix to make a ball... The default model has three parts with a colour and some transparency so you set these then ask your system to rendor this image as 1024 X 768 (high); My i7 chip will rendor this image in about half the time as it takes your i5 (even thou you have more ram) so if it takes me 2 hours then it will take you 4 hours... Now this is 'best case' and assumes we don't do any other multitasking (emails, play music etc) and just allow the system to complete the rendor task while we eat dinner... Its perhaps worth noting that the nature of rendoring is such that the bulk of the image will be in the first half so 1 hour for me and 2 hours for you will give us an image that is at least 80-90% done or "good enough". Stepping away from Adobe we look at the other major multitasking scenario witch is virtualization. You should opt for the pro version of windows 8.1 or 10 because that gives you the FREE hyper-v and then your windows desktop can have a V-windows 7 (Linux or even server) running inside it "at the same time" as the main operating system chugs along. My i3 laptop once did a PXE (pronounced pixie) boot demo where I had a V-server 12r2 installing V-windows 7 with in hyper-v whist we watched from the main operating system... Your i5 would just about manage to run the server or the w7 along with its native system but will scream to a halt before adding the 3rd despite appearing to have the same number of threads as my i3 because all i5 lack the hyper-threading technology. Perhaps you only need to rendor 3d images once in a blue moon and never want a windows 7 | Linux (to say test a game) so then the i5 is "just as good" and you save about 50-100 dollars by stepping down. ... View more

the i5 chip will not rendor well so any 3d work load? I'd recommend an i3 or i7 it will do still the job but it takes longer. p.s, windows 7 does not like solid state drives... you may want to go with a windows 8.1 system instead. ... View more

Hughman wrote: However, I understand that Flash is being replaced by Animate CC same shit with a different name Hughman wrote: 1. Do I need to download an Animate CC player and replace the old Flash player to be able to view Animate CC files on my web browsers? no, you only need a browser that allows Flash to view the files on the web Hughman wrote: 2. If I do need to install Animate CC instead of Flash to view Animate CC files, how, exactly, do I do that? you get Animate CC from your Adobe CC app... needs a sub payment! Hughman wrote: 4. Would I then be able to view Animate CC files on mobile devices such as tablets and phones? some mobiles and many tablets will still view Animate CC (flash) files... as time goes on, the amount of devices that still allow Flash are less and less Hughman wrote: 6. To create new Animate CC files, presumably, I would have to buy Animate CC. What is the cost of that in Australia? a student Sub starts at about $15- per month for the first year then goes up to about $25... this gives you all the Adobe apps, not just Animate p.s, imo for web design (ie, html-5) you are still better to use Edge Animate ... View more

Adobe Fuse is still free but you do need an Adobe id to use it (also free) ... View more

Myles MJQ 1 wrote: I am studying Adobe CS5. this is a waist of your time but more power to you mate ... View more

its offen the case that you don't have any software listed to open that type of file ... View more

Attroll wrote: I meet all those requirements. I am not sure if I have a OpenGL 2.0–capable system. I don't know how to check that.   any windows system made after 2010 shoud but you can test by typing "dxdiag" (no quotes) into your run box... if the rendor is direct X 9 or above then it does * you may still need a better driver to actually use it however. I would also run some basic benchmark tests on any new system to fine tune it and 3dmark is my goto but there are many others ... View more

my current system is a stock Asus Tp500ln that cost me $900 back in March this year... it has w8.1 | wx as dual boot my previous system was a Asus S500ca that cost $750 back in June 2013... it has w8 | wx as a dual boot with extra ram (16g total) and a 1t ssdd for an extra $150 to speed up the V-networking I was doing back then the main difference between them is the ram and faster drive of my old system made booting | software run faster but the new system with its i7 eats up the rendoring I need done today... My point is decide what task you need done faster and look for (really shop around) a system that can handle that task better. p.s, laptops = harddrives and ram can normaly be upgraded later but your cpu and grapthics are locked in! ... View more

in most cases the default printer is set by the os ('control panel' for windows systems) and not by any Adobe products ... View more

postrophe wrote: I bet it's because/interference of the "Creative Cloude" App. (but I can not prove it) Pierre in witch case the login will not be in the top right corner... shut photoshop, logout out of your Adobe CC app and quit it from the task bar... open Adobe CC app back up. sign in with your Adobe Account and then open photoshop. ... View more

whats the url for the page? ... View more

osgood_ wrote: I was still using Fireworks CS6 in preference to Photoshop but Fireworks wont work for much longer. you are not the only one but thats a another can of worms... well done Adobe! ... View more

all laptops have "flight mode" to turn the internet off ... View more

sign in is done by the CC app that should be running in the background (BEFORE) you open any Adobe software ... View more

John T Smith wrote: Ø The early bird might get the worm he is welcome to it... I'll stick to coffee thanks ... View more

well another cheap option is just use Adobe to host the images ... View more

is your Adobe CC running in the background? is it sync files while you try to download | upload? ... View more

This post belongs in the animate cc forum because muse is for web designers however the guy could use Adobe edge to make a animation that is compatible with the web / muse ... View more

frankv123456 wrote: Hey there. Has anybody experienced the following? Although being a registerd user for some time now and being connected normally, this is not recognised by PS. I have to stay on the trial version (expiring today), although I did a fresh Windows install ! The usual Adobe channels are not very useful to find a solution for this. Great if someone would have any workable solutions. Thank you! yes it happens all the time and is caused by Adobe. the standard work around is to first run the CC app then check that the default lang is the same as before i.e, english US or international last is to run the app update... this will force the CC app to look for your files at Adobes end and clears the block most times after that you need to talk to Adobe if the issue remains ... View more

it won't run well on Windows 10... just fyi ... View more