Are you running Office 2007 on your XP machine?Why is Office:Mac 2008 so slow? All my other apps are "snappy", where as this is extremely bloated compared to office on my XP machine. Pretty does not = better.
less that one second on a first start-up time?
as in, you log out, log in, and then click the icon and before it has bounced twice you have a document to type in? I doubt that very much.
if you have had an application open, and you have enough RAM, then quitting and re-opening the application will take a tiny fraction of the time it takes to open an app "from scratch" for the first time that session. Photoshop CS3 takes 30-40 seconds to load on my mac pro the first time, and if i quit and reopen, it takes about 3-4 seconds instead.
memory management.
less than 1 second for Word just doesn't sound accurate. Not for any version of Word.
Have you tried this version of word?
Well I tested it on my machine with an uptime of 2 days (and in those two days word was not loaded once) and it was about 1 second. Then I logged out and logged back in again and it was quicker than that. It really is fast.
With Excel I get start up times of about 1.5 seconds, Powerpoint 5 seconds.
BTW Photoshop CS3 takes about 15 seconds on my computer (MB with a 5400rpm drive), although I don't have many plugins installed to slow that down too much.
I have a 2.0Ghz Core Duo, 1GB Ram, Leopard wearing Macbook.
It is slow.
I have a 2.0Ghz Core Duo, 1GB Ram, Leopard wearing Macbook.
It is slow.
I would have to say your 1GB of ram has something to do with it. Maybe your graphics card too, it was pretty slow and horrible in those old macbooks.
I dunno tho? Its smokin fast here. MacBook Pro 2.4Ghz / 4GB Ram / GeForce 8600M GT 256MB.
I would have to say your 1GB of ram has something to do with it. Maybe your graphics card too, it was pretty slow and horrible in those old macbooks.
I dunno tho? Its smokin fast here. MacBook Pro 2.4Ghz / 4GB Ram / GeForce 8600M GT 256MB.
Underpowered? Let's consider that we are talking about an office suite. It's not Mathematica or Photoshop...
I have a 2.0Ghz Core Duo, 1GB Ram, Leopard wearing Macbook.
It is slow.
I've got a White 2GHz Core Duo MacBook too, only mine has 2GB RAM and Office 2008 is fast on my machine. Its not 1 second fast though! I'd say it takes maybe 10 secs max to open first time. If I quit then reopen it opens in about 3 secs!
What about Office 2008 takes so much more memory to run than Office 2003? Office 2003 via XP on my macbook (bootcamp) opens Excel instantly. Literally instant. You click on it and bam it's open. Anyone else had problems with finding the regression tools, or does MS think we dont need them anymore? It's like it is set up for my grandma to use. Very pretty, though.
For reference, I consider 10 seconds slow. I can open Word 2007 on my Vista side and it opens in about 2 seconds. 10 seconds to open a simple program like a word processor or browser is a long time.