Image processing

Adobe Photoshop

ACDSee PowerPack

The SpinPoint scores a win in Photoshop, but times are nearly identical for all the drives. They're not in ACDSee, where the SpinPoint stumbles a little to the middle of the pack.

Multitasking and office applications

Microsoft Office

Mozilla

Mozilla and Windows Media Encoder

Performance barely varies through WorldBench's office and multitasking tests.

Other applications

Winzip

Nero

However, the SpinPoint finds itself near the front of a widely dispersed field in Nero, trailing only Western Digital's latest Raptors. The field is also spread in WinZip, but in that test the SpinPoint only manages to crawl to the middle of the bunch.