Horribly slow performance with Entourage 2008

[Guest]

Well, this sure wasn't the upgrade that Microsoft's marketing
department made it out to be. The entire Office 2008 runs SLOWER than
Office 2004 on my 2.33 GHz MacBook Pro Intel Core Duo with 2 GB of
RAM.

Most irritatingly is the launch time of Entourage 2008, and the
INCREDIBLE LAG TIMES WHEN TYPING UP AN EMAIL MESSAGE. It can sometimes
take a half-second for a letter to appear after I have pressed it on
the keyboard. I am a VERY FAST typer, so typing and then waiting for
my entire paragraph to show up is very irritating.

Also, I am shocked at how much space Entourage now takes up on the
screen, because of all the extra eye candy that Microsoft has added
into the program... extra borders, larger font displays, etc. With my
preview pane on the bottom, I used to be able to see 15 email messages
at a time in my inbox. Now I can only see 11 at a time. This is even
after reducing the font size of my list items to Verdana 10 point, and
reducing the toolbar at the top to small icons. Ridiculous!

It is clearly obvious that the people at Microsoft just don't give a
crap about Mac users at all, and their commitment to Mac products
keeps going downhill every year. The people who work at Microsoft on
this product should be ashamed of themselves.

 

[Guest]

p.s. I have turned off the auto-correction features, and there's still
the lag time when typing.

 

[William Smith]

Well, this sure wasn't the upgrade that Microsoft's marketing
department made it out to be. The entire Office 2008 runs SLOWER than
Office 2004 on my 2.33 GHz MacBook Pro Intel Core Duo with 2 GB of
RAM.

Most irritatingly is the launch time of Entourage 2008, and the
INCREDIBLE LAG TIMES WHEN TYPING UP AN EMAIL MESSAGE. It can sometimes
take a half-second for a letter to appear after I have pressed it on
the keyboard. I am a VERY FAST typer, so typing and then waiting for
my entire paragraph to show up is very irritating.

How much free space do you have on your hard drive? Ideally, you'd have
more than 10% free.

And how many applications do you have running at one time? Launch the
Activity Monitor found in /Applications/Utilities and view the processes
for all users. The pie chart that shows your memory should show a
healthy chunk of the green (free) and blue (inactive) memory. If you
find that the red and yellow are consuming most of the pie chart then
you don't have enough RAM for what you're wanting to run.

Finally, look for a font cache cleaning utility such as Cocktail and run
that to clear any potential problems.

Hope this helps!

--

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

 

[Diane Ross]

The entire Office 2008 runs SLOWER than
Office 2004 on my 2.33 GHz MacBook Pro Intel Core Duo with 2 GB of
RAM.

See these tips for help with performance:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/troubleshoot/crashes.html#_9_performance>