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From: Chris Robinson
I think it's only in RC1 at the moment (OO1.1 that is) so it might imporve
futher before the official release.
Chris.
Antti Kurenniemi wrote:
> "Brian Hall" wrote in message
> news:3f4b104d{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Antti Kurenniemi wrote:
> >
> > > I kinda like it, but it has one big problem: it's reaaaally
slooooowww.
> I've
> > > got a whopping 800Mhz system, and it takes up to about half
a minute or
> more
> > > to start any of the OO apps, while Word pops up in (testing) about 3
> > > seconds. Strange, and strangely annoying. I would have thought that it
> > > wouldn't bother me so much, but it does.
> >
> > Word is probably preloading at boot time taking some memory
> > that could be used for other things.
>
> I've disabled the office starter thingie ;-)
>
> > I don't consider load time to be a big deal.
>
> I don't either, but I find myself strangely annoyed whenever I have to wait
> for more than 2.7 seconds for anything in my computer .
>
> > I did notice that v1.1 of OpenOffice opens faster than 1.0.
>
> I haven't used 1.1, but this sounds good.
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
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