speeding up OpenOffice?

[Derek Atkins]

According to
http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.aspx?model=Inspiron+1100+Series
the maximum memory is 1GB, 2 slots of 512MB, and you can get those
chips for $57.59 each.  So my $200 estimate was way way over the cost.
(the Dell Inspiron 1100 series takes DDR PC2700).

-derek

Quoting Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com>:

> Note, I know machines who have reached their maximum RAM capability at 512
> or even 256MB, it's also very important to know what kind to install, as
> it's no picnic there either and the older DDRs seem to cost much more now
> they're not being made any more.
>
> On 17/01/07, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> My two suggestions:
>>
>> 1) Try AbiWord.  It might not work (I've never used it), but it might be
>>    less bloated.
>>
>> 2) Get more memory.  256M really isn't enough to do lots of stuff.  Once
>> you
>>    get firefox running, you're toast.  Starting OOo on top of that and
>> you're
>>    into swap-hell.  I'd recommend you upgrade to 1GB ram.  A DIMM will
>> cost
>>    you about $200 (or less!) and you'll be much happier.
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> Quoting Seth Gordon <sethg at ropine.com>:
>>
>> > My wife routinely curses OpenOffice, because of the time it takes to
>> > load and the way it brings the rest of her system to a screeching halt.
>> > (This is an Inspiron 1100 with a 2.4GHz Celeron and 256 MB of RAM
>> > running Ubuntu "Dapper Drake".)  Is there some trick, some
>> > --disable-cruft option that I can set when recompiling the whole thing,
>> > that would make the experience less painful for her?  Is there a
>> > lighter-weight word processor that is good at reading and writing the MS
>> > Word files that the rest of the universe insists on sending to her?  (In
>> > practice, she's only using that part of OO; I already installed gnumeric
>> > so she doesn't have to deal with the OpenOffice spreadsheet program.)
>> >
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