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Test Machines:

This product was tested on two different machines.

Dee-27's Test Machine

⋅         Processor - Athlon XP 2.8Ghz (Barton)

⋅         Ram - 1Gb DDR

⋅         Graphics Card - ATi Radeon 8500DV

⋅         Sound - SoundBlaster Audigy 2

⋅         Hard Disk - 2X Maxtor 120Gb SATA in RAID 0

Womble's Test Machine

⋅         Processor - Pentium 4 2.53Ghz

⋅         Ram - 512Mb DDR

⋅         Graphics Card - ATi Radeon 9600

⋅         Sound - SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio

⋅         Hard Disk - Western Digital 20Gb

Software Requirements:

The minimum system requirements for the program are as follows,

⋅         Operating System - Windows 2000/XP Home or Pro (SP1 or later)

⋅         CPU - 500 MHz Intel ® Pentium III or equivalent

⋅         Memory - 128 Megabyte or better

⋅         Display - 800x600 or more

⋅         Hard Drive - 2.5 Gigabytes

⋅         Other - CD or DVD writer

For DVD Slideshow you will require,

⋅         CPU - 1.2 GHz Intel ® Pentium III or equivalent

⋅         Memory - 256 Megabyte or better

For MPEG-2 capturing and burning you will require,

⋅         CPU - 1.6 GHz Intel ® Pentium 4 or equivalent

⋅         Memory - 1 Gigabyte or better

⋅         Display - 1024x768 or more

⋅         Hard Drive - 1 Gigabyte For Installation, 1 Gigabyte per 5 minutes of video capture, Up to 9 Gigabytes for copying DVD discs

⋅         Graphics Card - DirectX9 compatible card

For Napster 2.0 services you will require,

⋅         Other - Internet Explorer 5.01 or greater

⋅         Other - Windows Media Player 7.1 or greater

Optional Requirements are,

⋅         For Burning - Multi-media compliant CD or DVD Recordable drive

⋅         For Audio - 16-bit Windows compatible sound card and speakers

⋅         For Video Capture - OHCI compliant IEEE 1394 FireWire card (for use with DV camera) or video capture device

⋅         Internet - Internet connection required for registration, product updates, sharing or downloading content, emailing and CDDB support (to retrieve CD artist, album and track information)

⋅         Other - Floppy disk drive required for disaster recovery

Software Installation:

Installing the software was a fairly easy task. The program does however come on two separate CD's. This indicates the size of the program.

The program auto plays once inserted into the drive and comes up with the installation program. Once you have entered your personnel details and provided a serial number you are taken to the screen where you can choose what to install.

The number of different programs that make up Easy Media Creator is quite immense. Here I have selected all of the options to see what everything can do. As you can see the space required comes in at 1135mb.

It takes approximately 10 minutes to install both discs and once installed it will ask you to restart your computer. Once done, we will be ready to see what it can and can't do.

Now lets take a quick Program Run Through

Introduction

Program Run Through