Quote: " they're both x86 processors."
Quote: "Most of the time it is marketing mumbo jumbo when they refer to Pentiums XXX ghz on back of boxes. As well as fancy instruction sets etc..."
Most of the time is not always, and equivalent is not equal...
For example, Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5
does not run on older Athlon processors (such as the Thunderbird in my computer) because they lack a specific instruction set (SSE). However, Adobe's "system requirements" are not so clear:
Quote: "
System requirements
Intel® Pentium® III 800MHz processor (Pentium 4 3GHz recommended)
Microsoft® Windows XP
256MB of RAM (1GB or more recommended)
etc.."
Only deep in the "Adobe Support knowledge base" you can find:
[quote]
Error "...application failed to initialize...(0xc000001d)..." occurs during startup (Premiere Pro 1.5)
Issue
When you try to start Adobe Premiere Pro, it returns the error "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc000001d). Click on OK to terminate the application."
Solutions
Do one or more of the following solutions:
Solution 1: Check the system requirements.
Make sure that you install Adobe Premiere Pro on a computer that meets the minimum system requirements (
that is, an Intel Pentium III 800 MHz or later processor). For a list of system requirements, see the Adobe website at www.adobe.com/products/premiere/systemreqs.html.
[...]
Background information
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 requires the SSE instruction set for real-time previews. The SSE instruction set is included with Intel Pentium III and later processors, and with
AMD Athlon XP and later processors.
