On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:53:26 -0500, Charles E Taylor IV <tomalek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 17:32:46 -0500 > Johnathan Bailes <johnathan.bailes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Personally I would sooo happy with 256MB of mem right now. My home > > laptop has only 128MB and I never, ever, ever use OpenOffice if I can > > help it. It takes like two minutes to load. > > That's probably less due to your memory and more due to yout hard drive. > Older laptops usually have slow 4200 RPM hard drives, and that's quite > noticable when trying to start Open Office. > > Having more memory would probably help too, but if you can't upgrade the > memory on your older laptop, upgrading to a faster drive will make your > laptop seem like a new machine. > > (Two minutes? That is a pretty impressively *slow* loading time. On my > old Celeron 366 laptop on battery power - so the CPU runs at 200 MHz and > the rest of the machine configured to save battery life - Open Office > loads in less than a minute.) 90 to 101 seconds from a cold start on my 600 MHZ Celeron Dell 4000 Inspiron with gaim, evolution and Firefox running in other windows . Yes, DMA is on. Don't want to run the quickstart script I use to use because I don't have much mem and that thing sucks down beaucoup memory. Btw, RH 9 was a dog on this box. But Fedora in every other matter seems snappy but the startup time for big C++ apps like say OpenOffice just stink.
