Youre seriously kidding me, right.
I can open 5-600 photos, most of a 4gb card in about 5 minutes into image editor.
Typical Sunday afternoon, shoot a game, get home about 5-5.30pm, stcik CF card in Belkin reader, open Elements, browse to card reader, open folder, wait 30 seconds or so for card to update and download thumbnail and meta data, quick scan and select 30-40 images and open them in less than a minute, pick 6-8 and resize at 7x5 inch @ 300ppi, caption and save at level 8 then send to newspapers for 6pm
Back to browse, click first image, hold shift and click last image, select open, all images start to open, first 100 or so take approx 1 sec each to open then it slows down a little as Ram is used up and rest of images are cached to scratch disk (2nd internal drive) from then on it takes about 5 minutes for all to open, just enough time to make a brew and check the images i sent to papers have got there.
All this has taken place before 6pm, the next hour or so is spent filtering through all images and cropping and saving 60-70 photos at 7x5 and 300dpi for the agency, those 60-70 and then batch resized to 700x500px at 72dpi and then uploaded to my website.
The 300dpi versions are then sent via an external mail server to rlphotos.com to be sorted at that end.
7pm-7.30pm im sat on the sofa with my supper.
Following day the whole card is transferred to internal and back up external storage, takes about 3-4 minutes.
And thats why i stick with Elements 2, its so quick.