NoOp wrote: > I just fired up an old HP Vectra 5/75 that someone gave to me from a > school; this thing is a 75Mhz processor/32Mb of RAM, and a 2.3Gb drive - > it happens to have my wife's old files on it. It takes forever to boot > (Win95) perhaps 15 minutes. But once booted I find that it has MS Office > 97 on it and so I decided to give it a spin. >
Ah, just the thing for running Vista! ;-) > Startup from the 'Start' Menu: 2 seconds > Opening a file left on the drive w/Office open: 1 second > Cursor, mouse, program menu response: lightning fast - I can move the > mouse cursor back and forth across the menu tabs so fast that it looks > like a light show moving from left to right and back again right to > left. I compare that with a OOo linux version w/450Mhz processor and > 256Mb of RAM and I'm amazed at the differences. OOo moves like an old > lady crossing the street compared to the Win95/100Mhz MS Word version. > > Startup of OOo another linux machine with a fresh install on it: > Opening OOo: 18 seconds (733Mhz/256Mb/linux) > Opening another file w/OOo open: 4 seconds. > Cursor, mouse, program menu response: slow as molasses in comparison. > > As most on this list know I am a very *strong* proponent of OOo. I've > required all of my customers to switch to OOo, and I only use OOo except > for troubleshooting MS customer situations. However I am truely amazed > at the comparison between a junkpile 75Mhz/32Mb PC running > Win95/MSOffice97 and a junkpile 450mhz/256Mb PC running Linux/OOo 2.2.1. > I have both systems side-by-side so I can easily see the response > between the two. The 75Mhz junker running Win95/MSOffice97 is clearly > the winner in *all* standard 'open this, save this' situations. > > So my question to OOo (and the list): how is it that a 75Mhz/32Mb/2.3Gb > junker running Win95 and MSOffice97 can kick the crap out of a linux > 450Mhz (or 733Mhz or 2.5Ghz - I tested on all)/256Mb PC running > OpenOffice? Have we (tinw) become so bloated with added features (and > I'm sure this may also apply to MS w/their latest versions of Office) > that we've forgotten the basic performance issues? > Try running a recent version of MS Office for a more realistic comparison. Older versions of OO required fewer resources too. Also, parts of MS Office are loaded during boot. MS has also been found to use hidden API in the past, to give a performance boost to their own apps that was unavailable to competitors. > Forget voting against MS whatever; perhaps it's time to vote to just get > back to a very solid, basic, OOo office package that will install and > work properly with valid response/application times on multiple platforms. > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
