The upper limit of RAM on my machine is 384 MB (three slots, maximum 128
MB each). Do you think those extra 128 MB would make a very big difference
on my machine? By the way, I have Windows 98 (build 1998), not Windows
2000. My machine is all legal these days so I stick to the OS that
followed it in early 1999. I have tried Windows 2000 and Windows XP on it
too, but Windows XP was a real pain. Windows 2000 was OK, but there was no
decent printer driver to my HP Deskjet 710C availabe for Windows 2000 and
there till isn't.
But don't worry, folks, my next PC will probably be at least 3 GHz, 1-2 GB
and I will keep my old one for a while and install Linux on it. I worked a
lot with UNIX in the 90's and I liked it very much, so I figure that it's
time to learn Linux. When I find that I can do everything with Linux that
I can do with Windows, then I will probably install Linux in the new
machine and then get rid of the old one, or maybe keep it in the network
as some kind of a backup machine. If I remove the CD player and the ZIP
drive I can add two more HDD:s in it (I have two at the moment)... I guess
I have to buy a bigger apartment as well...
Ops, sorry, WAAAAAY out ot topic... I guess I just felt like typing...
Take care, everyone!
Johnny
Den 2006-05-13 03:33:20 skrev Ross Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Johnny Andersson wrote:
Hi!
I have a 450 MHz 256 MB Dell and Open Office is terribly slow on my
machine too. That's the reason I still use Open Office 1.1.5. I had
2.0 for a while but it was so slow that I almost physically crashed my
PC due to anger... so I went back to 1.1.5. I will try 2.0 again when
I have a 100 GHz PC or something... ;)
1.1.5 is slow too, very slow, but at least twice as fast as 2.0, I
think.
So I think you just have a too slow PC, just like me... And yes, I
tried 2.0 on my girlfriend's lap top (750 MHz, 512 MB) and it was very
slow too. Not as slow as my machine, but still way too slow. Slow
enough to shorten my life with at least ten years (anger and
frustration shortens one's life, and in this case there were both...).
The first Office suite I had on this machine was Office '97. Excel
opened in 1.5 seconds, but I guess those times will never come back,
and I will NOT go back to MS Office '97! Opening Open Office Calc
1.1.5 takes maybe 30 seconds and it is a real pain, but since it is
free I guess I can take it...
450MHz, 256MB is an old old machine when 3GHz with 1GB have been the
base level machines sold over the counter for a few years now.
256MB is just too little. I think that is the minimum required to run
Windows 2000 alone. I have a 1.8GHz machine at work that had 256MB
running Linux and several apps including OOo 2.0.2 and it was constantly
swapping memory pages out to disk [and painfully slow]. It was upgraded
to 512MB and is much much better now (it's still officially past
end-of-life though). If you aren't about to go to a faster machine with
more and faster memory, add RAM to your current machine [it's the
cheapest option - although you probably won't be able to re-use it in a
newer machine] and avoid page swapping wherever possible.
Ross
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