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So, I went and tried the game Sonic Dash, an endless runner featuring Sonic and stuff. It's very fun, though you have to grind a lot to get the good stuff for free. It also made something apparent about Hazel.... she is already showing signs of age. :/
Sonic Dash plays well enough, but slowness and lag is apparent during startup and when transitioning to different level segments. Games like Angry Birds are also starting to lag at certain points, but it's not as frequent as Sonic Dash.
As for web browsing and video viewing, Hazel still runs rather well, but I don't use such features too often at home. News apps and non-game things also still run great. Even so, I'm tossing around the idea of acquiring a new tablet by fall. If I do decide to get a newer tablet, I need to decide between a name-brand tab or a generic off-brand tab.
Name-brands have longer battery life, higher build quality, and wonderful LCD screens. Off-brand tabs tend to come with an almost vanilla Android OS with no bloatware or proprietary UI's and sometimes rather quirky features, such as that JXD Android gamepad thing. But they tend to suffer from poor battery life and bad LCD screen quality. The Rockchip/Allwinner CPUs tend to get burning hot during games, hotter than Hazel!
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Apologies if I seem like I'm complaining, but... IDK about my old Adobe Suite. I try to make Ruby run better (and she does for the most part) but there is a new problem with Audition I can't fix. Any audio recorded skips every 10 seconds, and increasing the buffer size has no effect (or at best, makes the skips happen every minute instead). I tried different SB Audigy drivers to no avail. Ruby has integrated audio, but it's not 24bit/96khz. After hearing the difference of 24bit audio, I don't want to downgrade back to 16bit sound. That means it's either getting Ruby's Audigy SE card to play nice with Audition, or switch back to Lilly.... again.
I could just re-install Vista I guess, but my production PC has been out of commission for nearly a month now. I should have just left Audrey as she was. Better yet, I should have just kept Lilly the production PC and never started experimenting with things.
David, would running my Adobe suite inside VirtualBox work well? I don't think you have ever run Adobe CS inside a VM before, but perhaps you have run similar memory/CPU intensive programs in such a way. Lilly does have the CPU and RAM to run XP Pro in a VM without any problems. Even if the performance of such a suite is limited, it would work until I could save up for a Mac-native version of Adobe CS or even Final Cut Pro/Logic Studio.
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Here's an idea. Install the Audigy SE card, but instead of going with Creative's driver, try this driver: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.kxproject.com/">http://www.kxproject.com/</a><!-- m -->
Maybe this would work for you instead.
I strongly do not recommend virtualizing Adobe programs, especially audition, since you will be limited by the VM's virtual soundcard and do not have access to the cards' more advanced features. In fact, the virtual soundcard will perform worse than a physical soundcard when under heavy load. Furthermore, you need a beefy CPU and a lot of RAM to get comparable performance.
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I'm fine, just unsure how to join these conversations.