Hi Barry, > My wife is using Office on an older 350Mhz iMac, with 768mb RAM, > and it's quite useable still.
Do you mean that our 400 and 500 MHz-iMacs would handle more than 512 MB RAM in contrast to what I found in the Apple Database as the max. they would accept? Joris -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Barry Wainwright Verzonden: woensdag 4 mei 2005 11:46 Aan: Entourage:mac Talk Onderwerp: Re: Office 2004 very slow According to Apple, 256 is the absolute minimum to run OS X. MS also state 256 as the minimum system requirement for Office 2004. However, I would hate to try and run either OS X or Office in that little ram. The smallest _practical_ configuration would be 512mb. Even that would be slow. Put in 768mb or 1gb and you will see a dramatic improvement in performance. Why is it too late to add ram to the iMac? It's still available. You need 168pin DIMM PC100 SDRAM - a 512mb chip will cost about �50 in the UK - not sure how much cheaper you would get it over there (price based on PC133 memory which is now cheaper, but will work just as well). The 600MHz iMac has 2 ram slots, each can take a 512Mb chip to give you 1Gb total. Depending on what you already have installed, buying one 512chip will either give you 640mb or 768mb (depends whether your existing 256 is in one chip or two). For �50, this will be a huge improvement and will make the iMac quite useable with Office 2004. My wife is using Office on an older 350Mhz iMac, with 768mb RAM, and it's quite useable still. -- Barry Wainwright Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details) Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> > From: "Anthony L. Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 00:46:41 -0700 > To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Office 2004 very slow > > If you are thinking of increasing RAM, you might as well triple what you > have to 768 or even to 1GB. When I bought my iMac 600 and contemplated > adding more RAM, I opted for 512MB, thinking that would be sufficient. Now, > I think that Office apps probably would run a bit faster if I had 768 > installed. Well, it's too late to add RAM to this iMac 600 given its age. > > Anthony > > ** ** ** > > On 5/3/05 3:56 AM, "Joris Lieftinck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Since the installation of Office 2004 (now upgraded to 11.1.1) I notice a >> considerable increase of loading and other time that the various parts of >> Office seem to need before one actually can go to work, compared to Office >> X's >> behaviour. Admitted, my Mac's are rather old (2000-2001, since puchase also >> changed from OS 9.2.2 to 10.3.9 by now). >> Does everyone of you experience the same slowness when using e.g. Word (and >> especially Entourage, where synchronizing takes a lot of time too)? >> Does somebody know whether upgrading internal memory from 256 MB to 512 MB >> would make things much better? Is there another hint to be given if memory is >> not the bottleneck? >> >> TIA >> >> Joris >> -- >> To unsubscribe: >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> archives: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> >> old-archive: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> >> >> > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> > old-archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
